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.

While trading furs Daniel acquires an indentured servant who was born in prison and has never been free. Daniel intends to release him from service but the young man has trouble adjusting to his new life.

In a semi-comic episode, Prater Beasley is called back to Boonesborough to get rid of a ground squirrel problem. Unfortunately, his methods get him into trouble, as he gets accused of fraud and even witchcraft.

A former slave, adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.

A fugitive is being tracked through the woods where he is killed in a confrontation. The man's only son is now an orphan and, after Daniel takes him back to town, plots revenge against them.

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

Prater Beasley is a teller of tall tales, but Israel and a disabled friend decide to follow him to see the mythical bear he talks about. Beasley may be just what the disabled boy, caught between an overprotective mother and an overly macho father, really needs.

Gideon is accused of murdering Cyrus Blake and his revenge minded brother, Enoch, is determined to hang him now rather than wait for a trial.

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

Daniel and Israel Boone visit Benjamin Franklin at his home in Philadelphia. While there, they are forced to match wits with the British Army.

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.

Josh discovers that an Indian party has burned down a mission with the only surviving nun hiding in a root cellar. They struggle to elude the Indians until help can finally arrive and save them.

When a trapper is murdered Josh is fingered as the killer. Daniel encourages him to surrender with the idea that the real killers will be easier to catch once he is in custody. But will Josh be hanged before they're caught?

Sgt. Malone is a hard drinking, pipe smoking veteran of the war. The Sgt. is also a woman, which puts her at odds with the town folk. Rebecca decides she needs a man and matches her with a peddler who once fought with the Hessians.

Josh inherits a section of land and a slave to teach him how to farm. When two men show up in Boonesborough, one with a reputation as a fighter, Josh, who has no interest in farming, sets up a bout between the man and Jonah, who fought for Josh's uncle at one time, and risks his land. When Jonah refuses to fight, Josh must take his place and try to win the bet.

An elderly man, who has worn out his welcome in town with his tall tales, takes up residence with the Shawnee, who enjoy his stories immensely. However, they are more interested in his wagonload of rifle parts and have plans for their use.

A killer terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence.

Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.

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

John Gist had gone to Canada rather than fight the British. Now, after American independence, he wants to come back and live again on his land. Daniel is caught in the middle trying to help his friend against those who see him as a traitor.

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

Boone helps an old friend who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.

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

A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

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

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

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

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.

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

A runaway slave and his son are on the run from three bounty hunters. When the father breaks his leg the son continues on and turns to Israel and Ben for help.

Daniel and friends Mason and Cully are on a mission to stop an alliance between the British and the Chickasaw and Choctaw. To do this they plan to blow up a gorge on the route the British are taking, but on their way their horses are stolen by a vagabond family of three. When they catch the trio they decide to take them along, though they're not sure they can trust the crafty patriarch of the clan.

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.

Israel is abducted and forced to live with a group of street urchins who work as pickpockets. With Daniel away on business, Rebecca and her uncle Brian have to find Israel and rescue the other children.

While on a hunting trip with Daniel, Josh Clements meets mad collector Sir Hubert and is then held prisoner in a cavern filled with treasures of the Aztec sun god.

Daniel agrees to a request of a friend to take his son, whom he regards as spoiled and irresponsible, and teach him the ways of the wilderness and learn something more manly than the painting the young man seems most interested in. Daniel and the young man both get more than they were bargaining for in the process.

The Boone family is on the trail when they are beset by a rogue group of hostile Indians. When Daniel is captured Israel must find a way to rescue him.

Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate sought for two murders.

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

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

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

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

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.

While on a surveying mission for the Continental Congress, Daniel and David get caught in the middle of a dispute between two women and a man bent on destroying their salt mine operation.

Daniel, Mingo, and Jeremiah encounter the Garth family, whose patriarch is forcing the local Indians to mine coal. The chief of the Tuscarora threatens to kill them all if Daniel doesn't intervene and stop him.

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

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

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

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

Josh and Gabe are captured by a Spanish officer who tells them another Spanish officer is secretly building a base from which he intends to invade the U.S. He asks them to infiltrate the fort and steal his plans to prevent another war.

Josh and Gabe are sent to Yorktown to intercept the arrival of Sir Peacham, an eccentric inventor, who is employed by the British but secretly sympathetic to the Americans. Josh and Gabe's mission is complicated by his daughter's intrigues.

Israel befriends an elderly Indian plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.

Israel finds first love with the daughter of a flamboyant woodcarver.

On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.

To help out Jimmy McGill, a penniless young man swindled in a land deal, Daniel offers him a piece of land to be paid for over time. When Amos Brown's daughter Charity, betrothed to another, is attracted to Jimmy, Brown forbids her to see him and moves up her wedding to a local man. To claim Charity before she weds the other man, McGill decides to make a fortune overnight.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Two inept brothers stumble into the middle of an Indian religious ceremony. Desperate to save their lives, they promise to bring back a woman whose hair is like fire, a description that conveniently describes Rebecca Boone.

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

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

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

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

Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.

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

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

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

Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw consider reforming.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Highwaymen - known as "buckaroos" - are robbing people around Boonesborough. After the British offer a rich reward for their capture, Daniel discovers the man responsible is an old adversary from a time when he and Mingo were robbed.

A former slave, now a chief of the Tuscarora, helps Daniel lead a ragtag group of soldiers on an operation against the British.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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