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George Washington sends Daniel and Yadkin into Ken-Tuck-E, the dark and bloody hunting ground of four Indian nations, to find a site for a fort.

Ken-Tuck-E

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.

Tekawitha McLeod

Mingo, wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin is a trusted friend to all in Booneborough and among the Cherokee. Yadkin had canoed up river and while meeting with a Cherokee trading party when they were ambushed by a Creek war party. Yadkin was found floating down river by Daniel's son Israel. With Cincinnatus removing the slug(bullet) and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through....

My Brother's Keeper

Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.

The Family Fluellen

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

The Choosing

Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.

Lac Duquesne

A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.

The Sound of Wings

Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.

A Short Walk to Salem

Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.

The Sisters O'Hannrahan

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

Pompey

A dream about a man whom Daniel thought was dead is followed by the appearance of three men at his door demanding that he take them to the site of a bloody Native American massacre.

Mountain of the Dead

Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.

Not in Our Stars

Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.

The Hostages

Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

The Returning

A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

The Prophet

Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.

The First Stone

While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.

A Place of 1000 Spirits

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

The Sound of Fear

Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.

The Price of Friendship

A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.

The Quietists

Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.

The Devil's Four

While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.

The Reunion

Boone and Mingo travel East and get caught up in a confrontation between Benjamin Franklin and British Admiral Lord Clydesdale, who threatens to hang them all for treason.

The Ben Franklin Encounter

An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.

Four-Leaf Clover

Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men

Cain's Birthday (1)

Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.

Cain's Birthday (2)

A man is found dead by a group of travelers, one of them hears a strange noise and believes it to be the Devil in the form of a black panther. Daniel and Mingo believe a far more mundane explanation is at hand, and investigate to prove their point.

Daughter of the Devil

Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate him for his loss but matters are complicated when he steals a grieving Indian women's mourning doll.

Doll of Sorrow

Jericho and Sumah, the daughter of the Indian chief, want to marry. Daniel proposes a trial engagement. For a month Jericho will live with the Indians and Sumah will live with Boone's family and see if each can adapt to the other culture.

The Courtship of Jericho Jones

Boone returns from a solo expedition to find Boonesborough eerily empty. A corrupt British officer has kidnapped the settlers, including Boone's family, and forces them into unfriendly Chickesaw tribal lands with the intention of gaining personal control of the territory. He then captures Boone and demands that he sign away all rights to Boonesborough or watch his family and friends be turned over to the tribe. Boone manages to escape, but realizing he has no chance of freeing the captives on his own, he turns to a surprising source of help.

Empire of the Lost

Boonesborough loses hope of winning an annual race when Boone sprains his ankle, until Jericho steps in.

The Tortoise and the Hare

A chief of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death.

The Mound Builders

Boone pursues a runaway slave stealing pelts to earn passage to Africa.

My Name Is Rawls

Israel violates a burial ritual when he rescues an aged Indian from death in a cave.

The Old Man and the Cave

Boone first respects, then likes, a drunkard sought for burning an Indian village.

The Trek

Aaron Burr, ex-Vice President, comes to Boonesborough to enlist Daniel to guide him on a long and dangerous journey to the west, but is vague about his reasons for the trek. When Daniel turns him down due to his unease about Burr's secretive intentions, Jericho blindly jumps at the chance to take the offer and earn a hefty fee. After Burr and Jericho leave, Daniel discovers Burr's true mission, and he and Mingo set out to intercept them and save Jericho from his own naivety.

The Aaron Burr Story

A man arrives at Boonesborough offering unusually high prices for beaver pelts. Daniel doesn't trust this generous trader and soon discovers the man has an ulterior motive of a sinister nature.

Cry of Gold

A Scottish emigrant, a Cherokee chief s son and Israel try to prevent a war between settlers and Indians.

The Peace Tree

Boone s eccentric father-in-law concocts a Thanksgiving Day plan to prevent a Choctaw attack.

The Thanksgiving Story

Vigilantes stalk Mingo after his knife falls into the hands of a Cherokee who murders a trader s family.

A Rope for Mingo

Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw consider reforming.

The First Beau

Daniel and Rebecca finally get to take a long delayed honeymoon but it gets interrupted by an officer of the Continental Army with a confidential message for Daniel to deliver to New Orleans.

The Perilous Journey

On a cold Christmas Eve, hungry Boonesborough awaits the birth of an Indian child who could reconcile two tribes.

The Christmas Story

The sister of a British officer lies that she narrowly escaped an Indian massacre; Boone must avert war.

The Tamarack Massacre Affair

A Spanish military expedition chasing a French revolutionary mistakes Boone for its quarry.

Gabriel

After Seminoles hail him a god, a magician lets his power go to his head.

Seminole Territory

A bounty hunter seeking Army deserters learns one of his captives is valuable Boone.

The Deserter

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

Crisis by Fire

Boone heads to Pennsylvania to have a new gun made, but meets two scoundrels seeking a guide to the Mississippi.

The Gun

Three escaped Army prisoners, seeking revenge on a former commander, pressure Boone by seizing his children.

The Prisoners

Boone and his party endure hardship to blow up a bridge between the advancing British and Fort Wayne.

The Fifth Man

Cassady was supposed to build a new road in the wilderness around Shawnee land. But when he decides there isn't enough time before winter to build the longer route, he decides to go straight through Shawnee land and into a possible war.

The Gun-Barrel Highway

An ambush on the way to New Orleans leaves Boone in possession of a famous pirate s journal.

The Search

William Blunt, an old friend of Boone's, steals a wagon carrying fifty rifles and powder, which he intends to sell to the Shawnee. Daniel, along with Mingo and Jericho, must find Blunt and recover the rifles before a deal with the chief is made.

Fifty Rifles

Renegades take Israel hostage when they find him and injured Mingo in the forest.

The Trap

Mingo arranges a prison break to free Boone after a couple frames him for murder.

The Accused

A man finds only danger when he seeks a fabled city of gold.

Cibola

On his way through Kentucky, Boone meets his future wife, makes an Indian friend and uncovers deception.

The High Cumberland (1)

Daniel Boone continues his trek to Kentucky. In the conclusion of this two-part episode detailing the early years of Daniel Boone's life he must lead a party of settlers through a canyon and take a stand against pursuers who want their precious supplies all the while defeating rival Jim Santee for the affections of one Rebecca Bryan

The High Cumberland (2)

Boone faces a killer bear and the man who has sworn vengeance on the animal.

Dan'l Boone Shot a B'ar

Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.

The Allegiances

Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave.

Goliath

Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.

Grizzly

Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him.

First in War, First in Peace

Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.

Run a Crooked Mile

Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.

The Matchmaker

Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves.

Onatha

Daniel and the other settlers in Boonesborough will lose their land if they do not pay a new tax of one shilling per acre within two weeks. As Daniel is about to take the money to Williamsburg an old friend shows up offering to help.

The Loser's Race

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

The Enchanted Gun

Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head of a settlement.

Requiem for Craw Green

A buckskin-clad girl leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.

The Lost Colony

Boone fights a dishonest boatman and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough.

River Passage

Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.

When a King Is a Pawn

An impoverished nobleman acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.

The Symbol

Virginia's governor, Patrick Henry, assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.

The Williamsburg Cannon (1)

Virginia's governor Patrick Henry assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.

The Williamsburg Cannon (2)

As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.

The Wolf Man

Daniel and Mingo find an old colonist named Jasper Ledbedder who claims that Native Americans abducted his wife and child after his party had a massacre. They agree to help him, even though they suspect his story is not entirely true.

The Jasper Ledbedder Story

Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.

When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things

Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.

The Long Way Home

An orphan, determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.

The Young Ones

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.

Delo Jones

A dying man confesses to murder and theft, producing a pearl necklace as proof, and tells of the innocent man to be hanged for his crimes. Against townsfolks' wishes, Daniel takes the necklace to New Orleans to secure the freedom of the accused man.

The Necklace

Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.

Fort West Point

A traitor's plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires.

Bitter Mission

Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.

Take the Southbound Stage

After fur-trappers break a treaty, a Cherokee chief s hotheaded son tries to start a war.

The Fallow Land

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

The Ballad of Sidewinder and the Cherokee

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

The Ordeal of Israel Boone

An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.

The Renegade

Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.

Tanner

Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.

Beaumarchais

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

The King's Shilling

Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.

The Inheritance

Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.

The Traitor

A slavehunter chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.

The Value of a King

Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.

The Desperate Raid

A boy, whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse.

The Spanish Horse

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

Chief Mingo

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

The Best Seasons of Daniel Boone

The Best Seasons of Daniel Boone

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Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

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