The Best Episodes of Daniel Boone

Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.

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Writer: Joel Oliansky

An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.

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Boone has orders from the Army to blow up bridges along the western frontier to prevent a British attack. When he reaches the last bridge he is blocked by a farmer who must keep it open in order to transport his autumn harvest.

Director: Nathan Juran

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Gabe encounters a child with a doll that he believes could have only been made by his mother, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, and sets out to find her.

Director: William Wiard

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The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.

Director: Gerd Oswald

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A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.

Director: Nathan Juran

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Daniel and Gabe become prisoners of the British after blowing up an important bridge. After escaping custody with another prisoner, they slowly work their way home through enemy territory. But they may be pawns in a larger plan.

Director: Nathan Juran

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A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son.

Director: Ida Lupino

Writer: Joel Oliansky

A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her name is Tekawitha McLeod and she is the daughter of the Cherokee Chief Menewa. When Daniel confronts Menewa about this he admits she is white and taken from a raiding party but he wants her back. Daniel refuses when he realizes he knew her family. The Indians are determined to fight to get her back and the settlers of Boonesborough are just as determined to fight to keep her.

Director: Thomas Carr

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Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.

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A man believes he has purchased land in Shawnee territory, but Daniel is certain that the Shawnee did not have anything to do with selling the land. When they go to meet the chief to try to work something out, he says he will give the man the land if the tribe gets twenty rifles. When Daniel refuses this offer, he finds out that Israel has been taken hostage in exchange for the rifles. While being held Israel meets a crippled and bitter Shawnee youth.

Director: John Newland

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A young Cherokee boy is shot and is near death. Daniel Boone must find out who shot the boy in order to head off the angry Cherokee tribe from retaliating against everyone, killing many innocent people.

Director: Nathan Juran

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Boone poses as a pirate to outwit a swindler who sold simpleton brothers a deed to Boonesborough

Director: William Wiard

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British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.

Director: Thomas Carr

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A fugitive from Virginia, Delo Jones, comes to Boonesborough ahead of a British contingent determined to arrest him for a murder. Daniel believes he may be innocent and plans a trap to catch the real killer.

Director: R.G. Springsteen

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Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate to help retrieve furs from a thief.

Director: Gerd Oswald

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Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite.

Director: James B. Clark

Writer: Paul Playdon

Mingo masquerades as a British major to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.

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On their way back home Daniel and his family plan to stop at a fort for the night. When they arrive they find it has been destroyed by Indians with only a few survivors. The surviving soldiers seem to be hiding some kind of secret.

Director: Lee Philips

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The British commander of Fort Detroit will turn over the fort's defense plan if the Americans will reunite him with his wife. Daniel and Cully escort her back to him but Daniel doubts the Colonel's willingness to be a traitor.

Director: Nathan Juran

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Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.

Director: William Wiard

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A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis

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A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.

Director: Harry Harris

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A former Continental Army officer uses a smallpox threat to raise troops against Indians.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone

Writer: David Duncan, Lee Loeb

A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.

Director: R.G. Springsteen

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