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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 race through hostile territory delivering vital supplies to isolated forts and settlements.
English astronomers Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon brave deadly terrain to resolve a border dispute in Colonial America and survey the Mason-Dixon Line with accuracy.
When frontiersman James Harrod founds Harrod's Town on Native American hunting grounds in Kentucky, he soon finds his new settlement under attack; his leadership is tested as he defends the first European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
After mapping the rugged Ohio Country, frontiersman and surveyor Christopher Gist accepts a mission to lead a young George Washington to a remote French fort in the Ohio wilderness on a diplomatic journey.
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, negotiate a peace agreement and prevent war.
By the 1840s, the fur trade is ending, forcing lifelong frontiersmen like Tom Fitzpatrick to adapt; when he becomes a guide for some of the first Americans to emigrate to California, he faces new dangers even as his way of life is becoming obsolete.
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.
In his first year on the frontier, Jim Bridger is forced to weigh his morals against the harsh realities of survival; as Arikara warriors close in, he must choose between staying with a dying man and risking certain death -- or fleeing to safety.
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.
As Meriwether Lewis and William Clark trek into the uncharted West, the rivers become too shallow for boats; they must find friendly Native Americans willing to trade for horses or risk spending winter on the wrong side of the Rocky Mountains.
Famed trailblazer and tracker Kit Carson faces the toughest challenge of his life when settler Ann White is captured by an Apache raiding party; now it's a race against time as Carson pursues the Apache in a desperate attempt to save White's life.
From humble beginnings, Tom Fitzpatrick rises to become one of the most successful men in the fur trade; however, the shrewd mountain man could lose everything when one wrong turn in the wilderness leads him on a harrowing journey of survival.
Frontiersman Daniel Boone leads settlers to the newly discovered lands of Kentucky, but his daughter is soon abducted by a Cherokee chief; in a frantic race to save his daughter, Boone goes from being a settler to a warrior.
Jedediah Smith hopes to earn his living in the fur trade, but he is driven by an explorer's spirit; though badly mauled by a grizzly bear, the fearless mountain man goes on to explore more of the vast, uncharted American frontier than any other man.