Into the Wild Frontier

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.