Into the Wild Frontier

Matt Roush says...

Meet the rugged explorers and mountain men who helped settle the Old West in a series using dramatic recreations to tell their legendary stories. Several of the names will be familiar to all—Daniel Boone, Kit Carson—but Frontier opens with a profile of the lesser-known John Colter, regarded as America’s first survivalist. A hunter and scout for the Lewis and Clark expedition—the explorers named Colter Creek (now Idaho’s Potlatch River) in his honor—Colter chose to stay in the wilderness, discovering Yellowstone’s hot springs and geysers and surviving a grueling encounter with the Blackfoot tribe.

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