Season 1

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a 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.

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.