NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Jim Baker: A Born Leader
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/2024
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#2 - Jim Beckwourth: The Long Ride
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/2024
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#3 - Lucien Maxwell: Legend of New Mexico
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/2024
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#4 - Joe Meek: A Fearless Fighter
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/2024
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#5 - John Coffee Hays: A Texas Legend
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/2024
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#6 - John Mullan: Roadbuilder of the West
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/2024
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/109 votesLoading...
#7 - Jim Clyman: Frontier Survivor
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/29/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/108 votesLoading...
#8 - Andrew Henry: Man of His Word
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/1/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1012 votesLoading...
#9 - Anne Bailey: Horseback Heroine
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/6/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1010 votesLoading...
#10 - Joe Meek: Cunning Captive
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/22/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/109 votesLoading...
#11 - Joe Walker: Humble Hero
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/15/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/108 votesLoading...
#12 - William Sublette: King of the Fur Trade
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/5/2023
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?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/109 votesLoading...
#13 - William Bartram: America's First Great Naturalist
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/13/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/107 votesLoading...
#14 - George Croghan: Frontier Peacemaker
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 6/17/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ken Pisani
- 8.1/1012 votesLoading...
#15 - Kit Carson: Fearless Fighter
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/15/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1024 votesLoading...
#16 - Jim Beckwourth: War Chief of the Crow
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/3/2022
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/106 votesLoading...
#17 - Christopher Gist: Unsung Hero of the First Frontier
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/10/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ken Pisani
- 8.4/1013 votesLoading...
#18 - Tom Fitzpatrick: Trapper, Trader, Legend
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/2022
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1012 votesLoading...
#19 - Marie Dorion: Enduring Frontier Legend
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/8/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/109 votesLoading...
#20 - Tom Fitzpatrick: Steadfast Frontiersman
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/22/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/109 votesLoading...
#21 - Daniel Boone: Cunning Woodsman
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/20/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ken Pisani
- 8.4/109 votesLoading...
#22 - Mason & Dixon: Trailblazing Surveyors
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/27/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/108 votesLoading...
#23 - James Harrod: Kentucky's Founding Father
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/3/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ken Pisani
- 8.5/1010 votesLoading...
#24 - Robert Rogers: Frontier Soldier
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 6/24/2023
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1038 votesLoading...
#25 - John Colter: King of the Mountain Men
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/2022
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Into the Wild Frontier
Every episode of Into the Wild Frontier ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Into the Wild Frontier!
As America expands westward, intrepid explorers and rugged mountain men risk their lives to blaze new trails into the wild frontier.
Genres:DramaWesternDocumentary
Network:INSP
Worst Episodes Summary
"Jim Baker: A Born Leader" is the worst rated episode of "Into the Wild Frontier". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/24/2024. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Jim Beckwourth: The Long Ride".