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.

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.

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....

Boone invites a widow and her hungry brood to town, but one of the children steals a telescope.

British soldiers and Indians surround Jemima as she tries to help Boone, wounded in the wilderness.

Boone chases a river pirate who plans to sell a load of stolen arms to Shawnees.

A British officer captures Boone then impersonates him to win Indian allies.

Israel becomes lost in the woods after fur thieves ambush him, Boone and Yadkin.

Yadkin's trickery leaves Boone the unexpected, and unwilling, owner of indentured Irish sisters.

A bondsman insists on returning a runaway slave unshackled by Boone.

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.

Mingo plans to do more than protest a new treaty when he and Boone visit Virginia's governor general.

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.

Boone cannot believe a boyhood friend murdered two Cherokee youths.

A Shawnee prophet predicts massacre for the settlers of Boonesborough.

Boone befriends a mother and son, but learns the woman is accused of witchcraft.

While hunting, the Boones meet a delirious British officer pursued by vengeful Shawnees.

A condemned bounty hunter who escaped from a military convoy takes the Boones hostage.

Boone assists a boy and winds up at the mercy of a larcenous clan.

A Quaker family refuses to fight until Indians kidnap a daughter.

Boone commands four criminals recruited by Yadkin to haul frieght to Boonesborough.

While out hunting, Daniel and Cincinnatus come upon Timothy who is looking for his abandonded daughter Becky.

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.

An idealistic schoolteacher incites Boonesborough's wrath by giving gunpowder to the Shawnees.

Boone seems guilty of betrayal when he allows Choctaws to capture the town's men

Lacking water and powder, the women and children of Boonesborough seem easy prey for attacking Choctaws.

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.

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.