Daniel Boone

- Season 3

(1966)

Cletus and Wilse Mott have been tracking a bear ever since it killed their pappy three years ago, but after it kills Wilse, Cletus' obsession becomes a mania. Daniel and Mingo decide the bear must be killed when it threatens Boonesborough, but Mott warns them off saying the bear is his. When Daniel kills the bear to save Mott's life, he turns on him.

Mingo hears of a British organized uprising of Indian tribes in western Kentucky. He fights the other chiefs in allowing this uprising to occur, because failure to either support the uprising or warn the settlers and Daniel of the danger is a betrayal he can not live with.

Boonesboro gives $100 to Otis Cobb for an errand, but he ends up spending it, under curious circumstances, on a slave, Goliath. The town wants Otis to work off the debt for fifty cents a day, but when a wrestler and his manager come to town seeking to fight for money, Goliath ends up fighting to pay off the debt.

Big Zack, a bear hunter, comes to Boonesborough to trade a prime grizzly pelt for supplies. Unbeknown to him, a band of Shawnee led by a man bent on avenging his brother's death at the hands of Zack is tracking him.

Daniel is puzzled when he received a letter from President Washington replying to a letter Daniel never wrote. The letter requests Daniel to come to the capital, but both he and Mingo suspect a trap.

Daniel and Israel ride on a stagecoach that becomes hijacked. Daniel ends up going to fetch a ransom for something on the stage, while Israel and the stage driver wait with the highwaymen. Will Daniel return in time?

Daniel and Mingo are entrusted with an Indian princess and asked to escort her to her betrothed in order to unite the two tribes and avert war. The young princess does not want the arranged marriage and fights them every step of the way.

After Daniel rescues a young black girl from a river, he and Mingo have their hands full returning her to her mother, who is part of a group of slaves heading to Canada and freedom.

Daniel and the other settlers in Boonesborough will lose their land if they do not pay a new tax of one shilling per acre within two weeks. As Daniel is about to take the money to Williamsburg an old friend shows up offering to help.

Red Sky, a Shawnee brave, thinks he is invincible after Daniel gives him his rifle for saving Israel's life. When several white men kill some braves, Daniel wants them brought to trial but Red Sky is determined to mete out Shawnee justice, which could start a war.

Kanati Green is shot and killed in front of Mingo after telling him of Indians being driven from their own land and giving him the title to his land at Logan's Fort. The title has been transferred to his father, a stubborn man who will not be driven off the property. Before delivering the deed Mingo stops by Daniel's cabin for a make-over.

The puzzling discoveries of a hundred-year-old grave marker and a mysterious young woman set Daniel and Mingo on a course that leads to the descendants of the lost colony at Cape Fear.

The government gives 1000 pounds of gunpowder to Boonesborough, and Daniel has to pick it up and bring it back by boat. There's only one man, Bill Sedley, that he wants to hire to help him with the boating, but Sedley is as un-trustworthy as he is tough.

A young boy, the future king of France, is kidnapped in New Orleans by agents of the new French republican government. Daniel is hired to guide them to a secret rendezvous point but soon realizes the boy is hiding a secret.

Count Alfonso De Borba is looking to curry favor from the British and offers to give them the Liberty Bell, which he has managed to capture. The British are interested but insist that he also deliver Daniel Boone with the Bell.

Virginia's governor, Patrick Henry, assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.

Virginia's governor, Patrick Henry, assigns Daniel to escort a somewhat nervous artillery captain and his cannon through hostile territory, and the fact that the cannon is large and hard to maneuver is making the journey more difficult.

A wolf plays a role in an important decision by the settlers of Boonesborough. A vote for Taggart, who just bought two slaves, is a vote to officially legalize slavery; a vote for Daniel is to outlaw slavery and free the young men.

Daniel and Mingo find an old colonist named Jasper Ledbedder who claims that Native Americans abducted his wife and child after his party had a massacre. They agree to help him, even though they suspect his story is not entirely true.

Israel's pet fawn Rosebud is growing up. She destroys the new pastor's crops. Israel builds a pen but she escapes. Daniel says she is too tame to set free but too wild for a pet. Israel has trouble accepting this and runs away with Rosebud.

Birch Kendall, widely known as an Indian hater and accused of killing a chief traveling to a treaty council, is about to be tried and most likely sentenced to be hanged. When he escapes, Daniel, an old friend, sets out to bring him to justice and prevent an Indian war.

Daniel comes across three children whose parents have just been killed by Indians and decides to take them to Boonesborough. The eldests theft of their only horse is just the first of the problems the children cause for Daniel.

A fugitive from Virginia, Delo Jones, comes to Boonesborough ahead of a British contingent determined to arrest him for a murder. Daniel believes he may be innocent and plans a trap to catch the real killer.

A dying man confesses to murder and theft, producing a pearl necklace as proof, and tells of the innocent man to be hanged for his crimes. Against townsfolks' wishes, Daniel takes the necklace to New Orleans to secure the freedom of the accused man.

The commanding general of Fort West Point tries turning the fort over to the British, as Daniel Boone tries preventing such a treasonous action.

After a retired general attempts to kill Boone to cause a war between Kentucky and Virginia to gain Kentucky land from the Spanish, a badly wounded Boone takes the general captive and forces him on a trek to stop the war.

Mrs. Abigail Adams entrusts Daniel Boone with a satchel containing $100,000, which is the ransom demanded to release her kidnapped husband, President John Adams.

Ignoring Daniel's warning, three trappers violate the peace treaty a second time by encroaching on Cherokee land and wounding Chief Nefromo. Canuda, Nefromo's son, kidnaps Rebecca and Israel and then gives the settlers one day to leave or be driven out. To avert a war Daniel must fight, and beat, Canuda.