Season 5 · Episode 2 — The Blackbirder
A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.
Season 5 episodes
E1Josh buys a pretty bondservant, then may have to marry her when she falls for him.
E2A bounty hunter seeking a naval deserter is tricked into capturing Boone s friend Gideon as an escaped slave.
E3Daniel agrees to a request of a friend to take his son, whom he regards as spoiled and irresponsible, and teach him the ways of the wildern…
E4On the way to New Orleans, Boone and a friend help two nuns, then learn one is an aristocrat fleeing the French Revolution.
E5Josh returns to his hometown to visit a friend but finds the community a wreck and his friend missing.
E6A woman and her boyfriend rob Boone's stagecoach and steal his tax money.
E7A former slave, adopted by Indians, terrorizes and robs Boonesborough.
E8An Army general plans to use Boone as bait in a trap for the frontiersman s friend, a Wyandot chief.
E9While on a hunting trip with Daniel, Josh Clements meets mad collector Sir Hubert and is then held prisoner in a cavern filled with treasur…
E10John Gist had gone to Canada rather than fight the British. Now, after American independence, he wants to come back and live again on his l…
E11Highwaymen - known as "buckaroos" - are robbing people around Boonesborough. After the British offer a rich reward for their capture, Danie…
E12Israel finds himself in the middle of a plot by a British Commodore to use a box of gold to find a thief, who may or may not be his friend,…
E13Gideon is accused of murdering Cyrus Blake and his revenge minded brother, Enoch, is determined to hang him now rather than wait for a tria…
E14Prater Beasley is a teller of tall tales, but Israel and a disabled friend decide to follow him to see the mythical bear he talks about. Be…
E15Israel is abducted and forced to live with a group of street urchins who work as pickpockets. With Daniel away on business, Rebecca and her…
E16An elderly man, who has worn out his welcome in town with his tall tales, takes up residence with the Shawnee, who enjoy his stories immens…
E17Josh inherits a section of land and a slave to teach him how to farm. When two men show up in Boonesborough, one with a reputation as a fig…
E18Boone has orders from the Army to blow up bridges along the western frontier to prevent a British attack. When he reaches the last bridge h…
E19To help out Jimmy McGill, a penniless young man swindled in a land deal, Daniel offers him a piece of land to be paid for over time. When A…
E20On their way back home Daniel and his family plan to stop at a fort for the night. When they arrive they find it has been destroyed by Indi…
E21In a semi-comic episode, Prater Beasley is called back to Boonesborough to get rid of a ground squirrel problem. Unfortunately, his methods…
E22Daniel and friends Mason and Cully are on a mission to stop an alliance between the British and the Chickasaw and Choctaw. To do this they…
E23A fugitive is being tracked through the woods where he is killed in a confrontation. The man's only son is now an orphan and, after Daniel…
E24A man believes he has purchased land in Shawnee territory, but Daniel is certain that the Shawnee did not have anything to do with selling…
E25Sgt. Malone is a hard drinking, pipe smoking veteran of the war. The Sgt. is also a woman, which puts her at odds with the town folk. Rebec…
E26While on a surveying mission for the Continental Congress, Daniel and David get caught in the middle of a dispute between two women and a m…