Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone is a 6-season western starring Fess Parker that ran from 1964 - 1970.

Season 1

 * 1) Ken-Tuck-E - Daniel Boone is commissioned by George Washington to build a fort in the territory of Kentucky. The British are talking to the Indian Nations and trying to win them over to their side and it's Washington's hope that Boone and his people will be able to stop their advancement. While scouting the land out Boone helps a Cherokee out who is being hunted by Shawnee...his name is Mingo, an Oxford educated Half-breed, and he and Boone become fast friends. Boone is captured by Dark Panther of the Shawnee and he learns of their plans to attack Boone's fort in Pennsylvania ...
 * 2) Tekawitha McLeod - 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.
 * 3) My Brother's Keeper - Mingo is wanted DEAD! Daniel Boone must capture his friend Mingo and bring him to justice before all Kentucky erupts in war. Daniel's friend Yadkin (Albert Salmi) 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 Israel. With Cincinnatus (Dal McKennon) removing the slug and Rebecca Boone nursing him, he began to pull through ...
 * 4) The Family Fluellen - As Daniel and Yadkin try to find the latest poachers, they meet a Welsh widow with three children who is determined to settle in Shawnee territory in spite of the fact that the tribe has been hostile to settlers in the recent past.
 * 5) The Choosing - Daniel and Jemima have planned a pleasant father daughter outing in the wilderness, but things take a nightmarish turn when Daniel accidentally cuts himself with an axe and a band of Native Americans kidnaps his daughter.
 * 6) Lac Duquesne - Lac Duquesne and Daniel Boone were friends once but now Duquesne has turned to river piracy to make his living. When Duquesne steals 5 cases of rifles from a small riverboat on their way to Boonesborough it becomes Daniel's responsibility to get them back before Duquesne can sell them to the Shawnee. Daniel, Mingo and Yadkin set out in pursuit of Duquesne and the rifles.

Cast

 * Fess Parker - Daniel Boone
 * Patricia Blair - Rebecca Boone
 * Darby Hinton - Israel Boone
 * Ed Ames - Mingo