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.
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.
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 an attempt to save Ann's life.
As Lewis and Clark's expedition treks into the uncharted west, the rivers they follow become too shallow for boats. Now they must find Native Americans willing to trade for horses...or risk spending winter on the wrong side of the Rockies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Frontiersman Daniel Boone leads settlers to the newly discovered lands of Kentucky, but his daughter is soon abducted by a hostile Cherokee chief. In a frantic race to save his daughter, Boone transforms from settler to warrior.
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.