Daniel Boone · S1 · E13
The Hostages
Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.
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Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.
Season 1
1Ken-Tuck-E
60 minSep 24, 1964
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.
2Tekawitha McLeod
60 minOct 1, 1964
A dance at Fort Boonesborough is interrupted by Flathead Joseph, a halfbreed slave trader. He has a young Indian girl with him whom he claims is a Cherokee Princess...and a white girl. Her name is Tekawitha McLeod and she is the daughter of the Cherokee Chief Menewa. When Daniel confronts Menewa about this he admits she is white and taken from a raiding party but he wants her back. Daniel refuses when he realizes he knew her family. The Indians are determined to fight to get her back and the settlers of Boonesborough are just as determined to fight to keep her.
3My Brother's Keeper
60 minOct 8, 1964
Mingo, wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin is a trusted friend to all in Booneborough and among the Cherokee. Yadkin had canoed up river and while meeting with a Cherokee trading party when they were ambushed by a Creek war party. Yadkin was found floating down river by Daniel's son Israel. With Cincinnatus removing the slug(bullet) and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through....
4The Family Fluellen
60 minOct 22, 1964
Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.
5The Choosing
60 minOct 29, 1964
British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.
6Lac Duquesne
60 minNov 5, 1964
Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.
7The Sound of Wings
60 minNov 12, 1964
A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.
8A Short Walk to Salem
60 minNov 19, 1964
Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.
9The Sisters O'Hannrahan
60 minDec 3, 1964
Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.
10Pompey
60 minDec 10, 1964
A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.
11Mountain of the Dead
60 minDec 17, 1964
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.
12Not in Our Stars
60 minDec 31, 1964
Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.
13The Hostages
60 minJan 7, 1965Now viewing
Rumors circulate that the British are employing Indians to fight for them. Daniel becomes personally involved when he gets word his wife Rebecca has been taken by an Indian raiding party.
14The Returning
60 minJan 14, 1965
Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.
15The Prophet
60 minJan 21, 1965
A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.
16The First Stone
60 minJan 28, 1965
Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.
17A Place of 1000 Spirits
60 minFeb 4, 1965
While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.
18The Sound of Fear
60 minFeb 11, 1965
A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.
19The Price of Friendship
60 minFeb 18, 1965
Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.
20The Quietists
60 minFeb 25, 1965
A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.
21The Devil's Four
60 minMar 4, 1965
Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.
22The Reunion
60 minMar 11, 1965
While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.
23The Ben Franklin Encounter
60 minMar 18, 1965
Boone and Mingo travel East and get caught up in a confrontation between Benjamin Franklin and British Admiral Lord Clydesdale, who threatens to hang them all for treason.
24Four-Leaf Clover
60 minMar 25, 1965
An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.
25Cain's Birthday (1)
60 minApr 1, 1965
Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men
26Cain's Birthday (2)
60 minApr 8, 1965
Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.
27Daughter of the Devil
60 minApr 15, 1965
A man is found dead by a group of travelers, one of them hears a strange noise and believes it to be the Devil in the form of a black panther. Daniel and Mingo believe a far more mundane explanation is at hand, and investigate to prove their point.
28Doll of Sorrow
60 minApr 22, 1965
Israel accidentally startles a passing peddler's horse and his goods are ruined. Daniel agrees to compensate him for his loss but matters are complicated when he steals a grieving Indian women's mourning doll.
29The Courtship of Jericho Jones
60 minApr 29, 1965
Jericho and Sumah, the daughter of the Indian chief, want to marry. Daniel proposes a trial engagement. For a month Jericho will live with the Indians and Sumah will live with Boone's family and see if each can adapt to the other culture.
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