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. Once they arrive, they encounter representatives of two of those four nations -- Shawnee warriors chasing a lone Cherokee warrior. Daniel helps drive the Shawnee away, and the grateful Cherokee, Mingo, returns the favor by showing Daniel and Yad an ideal location to build their fort. Yad returns east while Daniel remains with Mingo to explore the country.
A man called Flathead Joseph kidnaps the adopted daughter of a Cherokee chief and offers her to the Boonesborough settlers in exchange for a jug of rum. When it's revealed that the girl is in reality white, Daniel purchases her freedom. Then the Cherokee arrive on the scene and want to take the girl back to live with them. Some of the settlers do not agree that she should return but the girl herself wants to go
Yadkin is seriously wounded in a Indian ambush and insists that the Indian who wounded him was none other than Mingo.
Boone invites a widow (Bethel Leslie) and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.
Boone chases a river pirate (Emile Genest) who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
A British officer (Michael Rennie) captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies; guest Frank DeKova
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters (Fay Spain, Nina Shipman).
A bondsman (Peter Whitney) insists on returning a runaway slave (Brock Peters) unshackled by Boone.
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.
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general (Walter Pidgeon)
A band of Senecas kidnap Rebecca and ransack the Boone cabin. The unusual thing about this little group is that they are led by a white Tory officer.
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend (Pat Hingle) murdered three Cherokee youths.
A Shawnee prophet (John Russell) predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough; guest Patricia Huston.
Boone befriends a mother (Geraldine Brooks) and son (Kurt Russell), but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer (Macdonald Carey) pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
A condemned bounty hunter (Dan Duryea) who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.
Boone assists a boy hanging by his feet from a tree (Kurt Russell) and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan; guests Lloyd Nolan, Lane Bradford.
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter; guests Alexander Scourby, Jay Silverheels.
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough; guests Sean McClory, Gordon Jump.
Timothy Patrick Bryan shows up in Boonesborough looking for his long lost daughter, Rebecca Boone. Rebecca wants nothing to do with the man because he abandoned her family when she was a child.
After returning from a trip to Virginia, Daniel and Mingo tell via flashback how they met the legendary Benjamin Franklin and almost got themselves shanghaied to England in the process.
An idealistic schoolteacher (George Gobel) incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
Superstition runs rampant in Boonesborough when two mysterious travelers arrive and are followed by the appearance of a deadly panther.
Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate Seth Jannings for his loss, but matters are complicated when Jannings steals a sacred mourning doll from the wife of a Native American chief and plans to hold it for ransom. Knowing that this could lead to major hostilities with the Native Americans, Daniel puts his own neck on the line to retrieve the doll from Jannings.
Jericho Jones kidnaps a Creek princess and elopes with her. Needless to say, this event causes considerable disruption of settler-Native American relations.
Daniel receives a major surprise upon his return from a journey when British Colonel Worthing orders Boonesborough to be evacuated. He says it's because he's battling a Native American rebellion but Daniel suspects otherwise.
Boonesborough loses hope of winning an annual race when Boone sprains his ankle, until Jericho steps in.
A chief (Henry Silva) of a long-dead Aztec tribe enters the Shawnees Valley of Death; guest Simon Oakland.
Boone pursues a runaway slave (Rafer Johnson) stealing pelts to earn passage to Africa; guest Michael Conrad.
Israel violates a burial ritual when he rescues an aged Indian (Cyril Delevanti) from death in a cave; guest Val Avery.
Boone first respects, then likes, a drunkard sought for burning an Indian village.
Disgraced Vice President Aaron Burr arrives in Boonesborough looking for a guide to the mouth of the Cumberland River. Daniel smells a rat and declines but young Jericho Jones agrees to undertake the task.
Two scumbag land developers hire English boxing champion Thomas Cromwell to dispose of Daniel in a prizefight so they can buy up Boonesborough property.
A Scottish emigrant, a Cherokee chief s son and Israel try to prevent a war between settlers and Indians.
Boone s eccentric father-in-law (John McIntire) concocts a Thanksgiving Day plan to prevent a Choctaw attack.
Vigilantes stalk Mingo after his knife falls into the hands of a Cherokee who murders a trader s family.
Feelings for Jemima make a dashing young outlaw (Fabian) consider reforming.
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.
On a cold Christmas Eve, hungry Boonesborough awaits the birth of an Indian child who could reconcile two tribes.
The sister of a British officer lies that she narrowly escaped an Indian massacre; Boone must avert war.
A Spanish military expedition chasing a French revolutionary mistakes Boone for its quarry; guests Cesar Romero, Mike Mazurki.
After Seminoles hail him a god, a magician lets his power go to his head; guests Diane Ladd, Leonard Nimoy.
A bounty hunter seeking Army deserters learns one of his captives is valuable Boone.
A former Continental Army officer (George Sanders) uses a smallpox threat to raise troops against Indians.
Boone heads to Pennsylvania to have a new gun made, but meets two scoundrels seeking a guide to the Mississippi.
Three escaped Army prisoners, seeking revenge on a former commander, pressure Boone by seizing his children.
Boone and his party endure hardship to blow up a bridge between the advancing British and Fort Wayne.
Daniel tries to avert bloodshed between the Shawnee and road builders who have started building through tribal hunting grounds in direct violation of a treaty.
An ambush on the way to New Orleans leaves Boone in possession of a famous pirate s journal.
Cashiered British Army officer William Blount steals a shipment of 50 rifles and plans to trade them to the hostile Shawnee in return for a tract of land.
Renegades take Israel hostage when they find him and injured Mingo in the forest; guest Lloyd Bochner.
Mingo arranges a prison break to free Boone after a couple frames him for murder; guest Joanna Moore.
A man (Royal Dano) finds only danger when he seeks a fabled city of gold; guest Alejandro Rey.
This two-part episode deals with the early years of Daniel Boone's life and how he met both Rebecca and Mingo. It also re-writes things a bit from the show's premiere episode as to how he first settled in Kentucky and first encountered the Oxford educated Cherokee.
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 faces a killer bear and the man (Slim Pickens) who has sworn vengeance on the animal; guest Dick Foran.
Mingo struggles with his divided heritage when an Indian council announces the British will help recapture Indian land.
Fearing three vengeful brothers, Otis spends money given to him for draft horses on a husky slave (Woody Strode).
Israel helps clear a wild-looking mountain man (Jeff York), accused of murdering a man who refused to pay a debt.
Washington visits in answer to a letter from Boone, who never wrote to him; guest Michael Rennie.
Israel is taken captive so Boone will help steal a war hero s body and then extort money from the family.
Boone and Mingo agree to transport an unwilling Creek princess to an arranged wedding with a Shawnee.
Boone employs a mastodon s skeleton to fight two slave traders seeking runaway slaves; guest Raymond St. Jacques.
Daniel must haul ass from Boonesborough to Williamsburg in order to pay a delinquent land tax but the man traveling with him has been hired to make sure he never reaches his destination.
A Shawnee faces danger when he believes in the magic of a gun given to him by Boone for saving Israel s life.
Mingo masquerades as white to help an Indian boy condemned by the bigoted head (Jeffrey Hunter) of a settlement.
A buckskin-clad girl (Kathryn Walsh) leads Boone to a lost colony of settlers in a valley feared by Indians.
Boone fights a dishonest boatman (Leif Erickson) and Shawnee to deliver gunpowder to Boonesborough; guest Jim Davis.
Boone and Israel foil a plot to grab a French prince and send him back to a revolutionary tribunal.
An impoverished nobleman (Ricardo Montalban) acquires the Liberty Bell and decides to sell it to the British.
Virginia Governor Patrick Henry recruits Daniel and Mingo to help with the transportation of a heavy cannon to Continental troops on the frontier. In order to reach their destination they must travel through hundreds of miles of enemy infested territory.
The British set a trap for Daniel and his small band hauling a heavy cannon to Continental forces on the Western frontier.
As Boonesborough awaits a slavery vote, a frontiersman struggles to protect his pet wolf from townspeople.
Jasper Ledbedder arrives on the scene with a sad tale of woe about hostile Shawnees abducting his family. Daniel and Mingo accompany Jasper deep into Shawnee territory but then discover the real object of the journey.
Israel runs away with his pet fawn when Boone says the destructive animal, too tame to set free, must be killed.
Boone sets out to recapture a prisoner, an educated black accused of murdering an Indian chief.
An orphan (Kurt Russell), determined to keep his family together, causes trouble for rescuer Boone.
Happy go lucky woodsman Delo Jones arrives in Boonesborough carrying a big secret: he's on the run from a murder charge. Daniel discovers his secret and prepares to turn him over to a pursuing posse but Delo swears that the officer in charge of the posse is the real killer.
Daniel heads for New Orleans carrying a pearl necklace that will exonerate a wrongfully convicted man but his journey is imperiled by three no-talent assclowns who are determined to steal the necklace.
Boone and Mingo try to stop the commandant of West Point from selling the fort to the British.
A traitor s (Simon Oakland) plan to profit from war with the Spanish backfires; guest Cesar Romero.
Rebecca decides to help Boone rescue President John Adams from kidnappers.
After fur-trappers break a treaty, a Cherokee chief s hotheaded son tries to start a war.
Boone and wounded Mingo ask a river pirate (Forrest Tucker) to help retrieve furs from a thief (Victor Buono).
Israel must call upon all he has learned to save Boone from a rattlesnake bite; guest Jim Davis.
An Indian jailed for murder escapes and comes to take revenge on witness Boone and recover his son from settlers.
Israel helps a starving outcast who is haunted by memories of the Shawnee murdering his parents.
Boone guides a French ally, masquerading as an actor, who is traveling to Roanoke to buy guns for the Continental Army.
A father takes a soldier hostage to force British troops to free his rebel son; guest Barbara Hershey.
Strange happenings greet Rebecca and Israel when they visit a seaside house left to Rebecca by her uncle.
Sentenced to death by the British, Boone will be spared if he rescues a colonel s daughter from Shawnee.
A slavehunter (James Gregory) chains Boone with a group of escaped slaves then is attacked by Shawnee.
Boone teaches a lieutenant about backwoods fighting during an attack on a British cannon installation.
A boy (Michael Burns), whose father was killed by Indians, faces the loss of his beloved horse; guest Henry Jones.
The murder of a Cherokee chief, perhaps by a bigoted trapper, makes Mingo temporary head of the tribe.
Ottawas capture Boone while he is trying to free a code expert from the British, then plan to torture him to death.
A Delaware (Adrienne Hayes), raised by a white planter, must prove herself a worthy tribal leader.
A crow switches a rock for Israel s silver coin and leads him to a pirate (Jim Backus) seeking treasure.
Mingo masquerades as a British major (Harold Gould) to steal a shipment of rapid-firing rifles.
A killer (John Carradine) terrorizes witnesses Israel and friends into silence; guest Virginia Gregg.
Daniel, Mingo, and pal Jeremiah intercede to prevent reprisals when a stubborn Welshman begins mining coal from Tuscarora land
Israel befriends an accused British mutineer pursued by a shipmate (Wilfrid Hyde-White) sought for two murders.
Boone lets the Spanish capture him as part of a plan to blow up a partially completed Virginia fort.
Boone helps an old friend (Charles Drake) who lost his son because his neighbors think him a coward.
The Boones befriend a scheming medicine man s (Hans Conried) Gypsy bondservant (Anthony Alda).
Believing his son dead, Gideon takes revenge on Boone by stealing Israel.
One of the better episodes of the series is this tale about Daniel, Israel, and Rebecca's efforts to elude a group of bloodthirsty Shawnees on their way home to Boonesborough.
Daniel and Mingo are on a secret mission to deliver guns to the settlers but Amos Fargo plans to buy his indentured sister's freedom by selling them out to a gang of renegades who are after the guns.
A schoolteacher has the uncanny ability to communicate with animals. Unfortunately, Native Americans believe she is a witch responsible for the forays of a marauding panther.
Josh buys a pretty bondservant (Brooke Bundy), then may have to marry her when she falls for him.
A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.
Daniel tries to educate a young fop in the ways of a woodsman as a favor to an old friend. This one could take a while especially when a band of Shawnees get on their trail.
On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.
Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.
A woman (Lois Nettleton) and her boyfriend (Skip Ward) rob Boone s stagecoach and steal his tax money.
A former slave (Yaphet Kotto), adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.
An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.
Poor ole Josh Clements gets into a mess again when he becomes separated from Daniel during a deer hunt. He's captured by a nutty Englishman who has discovered a lost Aztec treasure and will do anything to protect his find from outsiders.
John Gist, a former Loyalist who has been living in exile in Canada, returns to Boonesborough. His presence re-opens a lot of old wounds from the Revolutionary War especially with his own son who fought against the British.
Daniel does battle once again with his friendly enemy, Joe Snag, who has taken to robbing freight wagons with a gang that calls themselves the Cumberland Buckaroos.
Israel becomes involved in the theft of the King's dispatch box when he travels to Virginia with Daniel and Rebecca.
When Gideon is accused of murder, Daniel must clear him quickly before some of the settlers turn into a lynch mob.
Prater Beaseley is a wandering minstrel and teller of tall tales who travels with an invisible bear. Prater and his invisible bear try to help a crippled boy learn self-reliance.
In this re-telling of Oliver Twist, Israel visits his uncle in Williamsburg and becomes involved with a group of orphans who are forced to steal for their living by the Fagin-like Dr. Samuel Morton.
An aging gunsmith tries to prove to himself and others that he can still be useful but then he's captured by the Shawnee who want him to assemble rifles for them to use against the Boonesborough settlers.
Josh's late uncle, who wanted him to give up his carefree ways, leaves him an inheritance--a plot of land near Boonesborough and an educated slave named Jonah. Josh, who doesn't believe in slavery, frees Jonah but he refuses to leave until he's made a proper gentleman out of Josh. Needless to say, Jonah's plow is in the hard ground especially when Josh enters him into a prizefight without asking.
Daniel's orders from the Continental Army are to destroy all bridges in the path of the advancing British but stubborn James Bickford and his sons have rebuilt their bridge and refuse to let it be destroyed again.
Jimmy McGill wants to win the hand of lovely Miss Charity Brown and asks Daniel and Cincinnatus for a bit of help.
Daniel, Rebecca, and Israel become involved in the scheme of five soldiers who survived a massacre to steal an Army payroll.
Prater Beasley returns to Boonesborough to help some farmers with a drought and ends up defending himself on charges of witchcraft after a "love potion" he gave to two buffoonish brothers fails to work.
Daniel, Cully, and Mason Pruitt race to intercept a British convoy carrying weapons and whiskey to their Native American allies but their horses are stolen by a family of ne'er-do-wells.
Young Luke Slater swears to avenge the self-defense killing of his father by Daniel's friend Ben
Israel is snatched by a band of Native Americans who want twenty rifles in exchange for releasing the boy
Daniel and Rebecca are matchmaking again. This time it's for Molly Malone and tinker Herman Bloedel.
Daniel and artist David Scott are on a land survey and become drawn up in the love spat between a rifle-wielding woman and a domineering hulk of a man.
Johnny Appleseed acts as a peacemaker between the settlers and the Cherokee when a young Cherokee is accidentally shot by a young settler.
Israel helps slaves George and Jimmy Hill escape from their owners.
Josh becomes involved once again with a scheming woman who hides a stolen diamond inside his guitar to keep her co-horts in crime from finding it.
Daniel must disable a British cannon which threatens to sink a Patriot detachment coming up river. His only help comes from two assclowns, a British POW, and Gabe Cooper, an escaped slave who's now a Tuscarora chief.
Daniel and Israel travel to Philadelphia to obtain much-needed supplies for the Kentucky settlers but the British have decreed that supplies can only be bought with currency. Daniel then gets old friend Benjamin Franklin to print up a batch of counterfeit notes but this method doesn't seem very ethical to young Israel.
Daniel guides the wife of a British commander to Fort Detroit to rendezvous with her husband who says he plans to surrender the fort to the Continentals.
The Spaniards are planning an invasion of U.S. territory. Only Josh Clements, Gabe Cooper, and a Spanish pirate with a grudge against his government can save the day. Heaven help us all.
Adam Jarrett and his sons are after Daniel's hide. They blame him for the death of Adam's wife in a river boat accident which involved a boat on which Daniel was traveling.
The Boones befriend young Jamie Blue, a young indentured servant who was born in prison and has been hardened by a lifetime of living in poverty. Can they melt Jamie's heart of stone?
Josh is headed for Kentucky's highest hanging tree when a trapper is found knifed to death near his campsite. Even Daniel might not be a big enough man to get him out of this entanglement.
Daniel and Gabe do battle with a trio of nasty assclowns who have taken Israel hostage and stolen a chest of Army gold they were transporting.
Hannah, a white woman captured by Indians in a raid 15 years before, is ransomed and returned to her husband in Boonesborough. The reunion is complicated by the fact that Hannah gave birth to a son during her captivity and he wants no part of the white man's world.
Josh once again finds himself in a full blown mess as he and a Catholic nun try to stay alive in hostile Native American territory.
Daniel and Gabe are joined by young Sam Weaver on their way homeward from a mission behind British lines. The only problem is that there's a bounty on their heads and someone appears to know the exact location of the route they're traveling back to Kentucky.
Josh and Gabe resemble 18th century versions of Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor when they bumble, stumble, and fumble their way through a spy mission in Williamsburg.
Gabe finds evidence that his mother is still alive and vows to find her and buy her freedom.
Daniel and Rebecca are at it again playing matchmaker this time to hot tempered carpenter Tom Lincoln and idealistic Nancy Hanks. It's a rough road because Tom wants nothing to do with Nancy but if the two don't get together then a great American leader will not be born
It's time for the annual footrace between the settlers and the Native Americans. Since Daniel has gotten a little long in the tooth when it comes to cross country running it's up to Cincinnatus to find another candidate. He finds one in fleet-footed slave Lucas Hunter but then learns that Lucas' brother will be running for the Native Americans.
A man who lost his parents years before blames a scarred stranger.
Boone poses as a pirate to outwit a swindler (Lloyd Bochner) who sold simpleton brothers a deed to Boonesborough
Israel joins forces with an Indian classmate to force the teaching of a course in Indian culture.
A cook (Philip Proctor) posing as a French prince falls in love in Boonesborough;
Israel befriends an elderly Indian (David Opatoshu) plotting revenge for his tribe s near-extinction.
Josh Clements is in a spot once again when he becomes foster father to a pair of orphans. Widow Mary Spoon has had her sights set on marrying Josh for quite a while and insists that he cannot raise the two children properly without a mother figure--namely her.
The Onondaga tribe mistake Rebecca for a fabled red-haired goddess in their folklore.
Israel finds first love with the daughter (Robin Mattson) of a flamboyant woodcarver (Tim O Connor).
