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Coming of age on the frontier, young Bill Hamilton joins Old Bill Williams on an epic adventure during the final days of the fur trade. The last true mountain man, Hamilton's courage is tested when he faces an epic showdown with Bannock warriors.

Bill Hamilton: The Last Mountain Man

Jim Bridger: Forged on the Frontier

Heading west as a young adventurer, greenhorn Jim Baker quickly develops a reputation as a skilled marksman and mountain man. When a party of trappers is surrounded and attacked by Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors, Baker proves that he is also a leader.

Jim Baker: A Born Leader

Already a seasoned mountain man, Joe Meek has a reputation for raw courage and bravery among the trappers of the west. But Meek becomes a frontier legend when he risks his life in a fearless charge to save the woman that he loves from Crow warriors.

Joe Meek: A Fearless Fighter

Robert Rogers leads an elite fighting force of fearless rangers behind enemy lines to fight French forces in Colonial America, but one mission tests his men as never before when they must trek 200 miles through the wilderness without food.

Robert Rogers: Frontier Soldier

Kit Carson: The Greatest Scout in the West

Legendary mountain man John Colter survives many brushes with death, but nothing prepares him for what he faces now; after venturing into Blackfeet territory, he is stripped naked and forced to run for his life as warriors give chase.

John Colter: King of the Mountain Men

Lewis & Clark: Captains of Discovery

Marie Dorion, a member of the Iowa People and mother of two, joins her husband on a harrowing expedition to the Pacific Northwest. After enduring near starvation and the death of her third child, her worst ordeal still lies ahead.

Marie Dorion: Enduring Frontier Legend

When frontiersman James Harrod founds Harrod's Town on Native American hunting grounds, he soon finds his new settlement under attack. His leadership is tested as he defends the first European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

James Harrod: Kentucky's Founding Father

Jedediah Smith: Scholar and Survivor

Astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon brave deadly terrain and hostile Native Americans to resolve a border dispute in Colonial America. With science and courage, they survey their famous Mason-Dixon Line with pinpoint accuracy.

Mason & Dixon: Trailblazing Surveyors

Daniel Boone: Hero of Kentucky

Tom Fitzpatrick: Trapper, Trader, Legend

In an epic tale of adventure, former slave Jim Beckwourth goes west to work as a trapper only to become a battle-hardened war chief of the Crow. When a conflict with mountain men leads to violence, he must choose between the two worlds he loves.

Jim Beckwourth: War Chief of the Crow

As a young man on America's frontier, Kit Carson sets the standard for steely nerves and fearlessness. But his legend is born when a Native woman is insulted by a notorious bully of the mountains, and Kit challenges him to a duel to death.

Kit Carson: Fearless Fighter

As the fur trade ends, lifelong frontiersmen like Tom Fitzpatrick are forced to adapt. When he becomes a guide for the flood of Americans wanting to emigrate to California, he faces new dangers as his old way of life is becoming obsolete.

Tom Fitzpatrick: Steadfast Frontiersman

Naturalist William Bartram risks his life exploring the unmapped regions of the South to document the native fauna and flora. Over thousands of miles of terrain, he faces hostile Native Americans, dangerous wildlife, and deadly disease.

William Bartram: America's First Great Naturalist

Legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone faces the biggest challenge of his life when the Shawnee take him as their prisoner. If he can't escape, he won't be able to warn the settlement of Boonesborough, and his family, of a looming attack.

Daniel Boone: Cunning Woodsman

After successfully mapping the rugged Ohio Country, frontiersman and surveyor Christopher Gist is hired to lead a young George Washington on a perilous diplomatic journey to deliver an ultimatum to the French forces in the Ohio wilderness.

Christopher Gist: Unsung Hero of the First Frontier

When Chief Pontiac organizes a coalition of Native American tribes to attack British forts, frontier trader George Croghan risks his life on a perilous journey into the wilderness to find Pontiac and attempt to negotiate a peace agreement.

George Croghan: Frontier Peacemaker

When he is separated from a trapping party, frontiersman Jim Clyman is 600 miles from the nearest fort. To survive the trek, he must put his fate in the hands of Native Americans, without knowing if they will help him or kill him on sight.

Jim Clyman: Frontier Survivor

Though Andrew Henry has little experience when he joins the fur trade, he gives his word to complete a risky trapping expedition. As Blackfeet warriors close in, he must weigh his pledge against the lives of the men he now leads.

Andrew Henry: Man of His Word

As William Sublette rises to the top of the fur trade, he revolutionizes an industry that requires daily risks on the frontier. But will he risk too much when he rushes to save his comrades in the largest battle of the mountain man era?

William Sublette: King of the Fur Trade

Joe Meek arrives on the frontier as a greenhorn, but he quickly masters the skills of mountain man life. Just as his trapping career is taking off, he faces a life-or-death challenge when he's taken captive by warriors from the Crow tribe.

Joe Meek: Cunning Captive

After Anne Bailey's husband is killed by Native Americans, she defies the social norms of the frontier and becomes a horseback courier, risking her life to deliver vital supplies to isolated forts and settlements.

Anne Bailey: Horseback Heroine

Joe Walker doesn't head west to seek fame and fortune, but his trailblazing explorations across the uncharted frontier usher in a golden age of expansion and settlement that help create the United States as we know them today.

Joe Walker: Humble Hero

Jim Beckwourth lives a life of adventure as a trapper, trader and adopted member of the Crow tribe. When America goes to war, Beckwourth becomes an army dispatch rider, a job that puts him and a young greenhorn on a collision course with the Pawnee.

Jim Beckwourth: The Long Ride

Having explored the frontier with his good friend Kit Carson, Lucien Maxwell is eager to settle down with his family. But before he can establish a ranching empire in New Mexico, Maxwell must first survive a deadly clash with the Jicarilla Apache.

Lucien Maxwell: Legend of New Mexico

A Tennessee native, John Coffee Hays heads to the frontier of Texas in the 1830s and signs on as an early member of the Texas Rangers. In 1844, Hays becomes a legend when he leads a small band of rangers in a desperate fight with the Comanche.

John Coffee Hays: A Texas Legend

Young Army officer John Mullan heads west to help establish an important wagon route through the Northern Rockies. But, before he can build his road, Mullan must survive the hardships of the frontier and a dangerous encounter with Yakima warriors.

John Mullan: Roadbuilder of the West

As America expands westward, intrepid explorers and rugged mountain men risk their lives to blaze new trails into the wild frontier.

All Episodes of Into the Wild Frontier

Season 1

Jim Bridger: Forged on the Frontier

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/2022

Kit Carson: The Greatest Scout in the West

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/2022

John Colter: King of the Mountain Men

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/2022

Lewis & Clark: Captains of Discovery

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/2022

Jedediah Smith: Scholar and Survivor

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/7/2022

Daniel Boone: Hero of Kentucky

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/31/2022

Tom Fitzpatrick: Trapper, Trader, Legend

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/2022

Jim Beckwourth: War Chief of the Crow

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/2022