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10 Episodes 2024 - 2024
Episode 1
Thu, Jan 11, 2024
Jim Bridger encounters a young Wyatt Earp working in a railroad gang and participating in bareknuckle fights to earn money. When the impetuous Earp sets out to kill a man who cheats him in a fight, Bridger intervenes to stall Earp with one his famous tall tales. As the story goes, Bridger is leading a trapping expedition when he discovers that his second-in-command, Bob Bullock, has crossed the line from maintaining camp discipline to outright brutality. One day, Bullock beats a man for stealing food, leading to a violent confrontation in which the thief is killed. Though he believes his actions are justified, Bullock is wracked with guilt when he learns that the thief had been stealing the food for a pregnant wife hiding outside the camp. Moved by the tale, Earp realizes that having the right to seek revenge doesn't mean it's always the right thing to do.
Episode 2
Thu, Jan 18, 2024
As a wagon train beds down for the night, the travelers gather round the campfire to listen to legendary frontiersman Jim Bridger spin his usual yarns and tall tales. But this night, prompted by the appearance of a striking redhaired woman, Bridger tells his most implausible story of all. To the disbelief of his listeners, Bridger claims that he was once killed by a party of Blackfeet warriors yet lived to tell the tale. His story takes place 20 years earlier at the legendary fort Bridger, which he built at the edge of the wild frontier. When a party of trappers goes missing, Bridger sets off from the Fort to find them, but he ends up being hunted by a party of Blackfeet warriors in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. After hours on the run, he is surrounded by the advancing war party, with no way of escape. With the help of the mysterious redhead, Bridger soon proves that he really did come back from the dead.
Episode 3
Thu, Jan 25, 2024
When a suspicious stranger shows up unannounced at camp, Jim Bridger distracts him with one of his tall tales while a friend runs to fetch the Sheriff. Suspecting the stranger is a known gold thief, Bridger shares the story of the time he and his fellow trappers discovered El Dorado, the famous Spanish city of gold. As the tale goes, Bridger and two companions are trapping in the Utah Territory when they are suddenly attacked by Ute warriors. After they manage to drive the Utes away, they realize they've stumbled upon a river full of gold, streaming from a distant mountain they believe to be El Dorado. They fill their pockets with gold, but for some of the men it isn't enough. One man is killed, and another takes off for the mountain of gold, where a more gruesome fate awaits. Back at camp, the stranger tries to force Bridger to reveal the location of El Dorado, but Bridger disarms him just as the sheriff arrives.
Episode 4
Thu, Feb 1, 2024
While guiding a hunting expedition, Jim Bridger must deal with an arrogant foreign prince who is abusing his servant boy. The tables soon turn, when it's the prince who needs rescuing, and his only hope is the long-suffering servant boy.
Episode 5
Thu, Feb 8, 2024
When a wagon train encounters a pair of Arapaho warriors, some of the men insist on a rash, preemptive strike against the warriors. To calm them down, Jim Bridger relates the incredible tale of how he and a lone Shoshone brave named Washakie nearly killed each other but ended up saving each other's lives instead. As the story goes, Jim and Washakie are hunting the same elk when they are suddenly ambushed by their common enemy, the Blackfeet. To survive the day, Jim and Washakie must overcome their natural suspicions of each other and work together to find a way to escape. Though some of the men in Bridger's wagon train remain skeptical, he convinces them that every Native American doesn't mean them harm.
Episode 6
Thu, Feb 15, 2024
After his fur trapping expedition is surprised by a Crow war party, legendary mountain man Jim Bridger finds himself in a desperate struggle to save his fellow trappers when one of them goes missing, and another is on the brink of madness.
Episode 7
Thu, Feb 22, 2024
A young Jim Bridger helps a Shoshone woman escape the clutches of her cruel and abusive husband. As Bridger squares off against the frontier ruffian, he soon realizes that the woman he is helping is none other than the legendary Sacajawea.
Episode 8
Thu, Feb 29, 2024
When a young girl is bitten by a rattlesnake, mountain man Jim Bridger finds himself in a race against time to keep her alive as he desperately searches the wilderness for a medicinal plant that saved the life of his friend years earlier.
Episode 9
Thu, Mar 7, 2024
When bloodthirsty Canadian trappers try to kill him, mountain man Jim Bridger takes cover in an unexplored valley. There, he stumbles into a family of escaped slaves who show him the footprints and fossilized bones of long-dead monsters.
Episode 10
Thu, Mar 14, 2024
Haunted by the memory of leaving a man to die, mountain man Jim Bridger resolves not to repeat the mistake. When his trapping party runs out of water while crossing a barren desert, Bridger struggles desperately to keep them all alive.