The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger – Season 1
Episodes
The Prizefighter
When Jim Bridger's second-in-command enforces camp discipline with brutal violence, one trapper pushes back, and a showdown seems inevitable. Can Bridger intervene before the situation turns from mutual hostility into cold-blooded murder?
They Killed Me
Legendary frontiersman Jim Bridger spins an incredible tall tale to a group of settlers, claiming he was once killed by Blackfeet warriors yet somehow lived to tell the tale. By the end of his story, they are convinced it's all true.
Fool's Gold
After discovering a river filled with gold, Jim Bridger and his fellow trappers believe they are near El Dorado, the mythical Spanish city of gold. But their insatiable greed turns friends into enemies and leads to a gruesome fate.
A Prince on the Prairie
While guiding a hunting expedition, Jim Bridger must deal with an arrogant foreign prince who is abusing his servant boy. The tables soon turn, when it's the prince who needs rescuing, and his only hope is the long-suffering servant boy.
Brothers in Arms
When they are ambushed by a vengeful Blackfeet war party, Jim Bridger and a lone Shoshone brave must work together to find a way to defeat their common enemy. If they can't learn to trust each other, they may not survive the day.
The Spirit of Truth
After his fur trapping expedition is surprised by a Crow war party, legendary mountain man Jim Bridger finds himself in a desperate struggle to save his fellow trappers when one of them goes missing, and another is on the brink of madness.
Molly's Choice
A young Jim Bridger helps a Shoshone woman escape the clutches of her cruel and abusive husband. As Bridger squares off against the frontier ruffian, he soon realizes that the woman he is helping is none other than the legendary Sacajawea.
The Snakeroot Cure
When a young girl is bitten by a rattlesnake, mountain man Jim Bridger finds himself in a race against time to keep her alive as he desperately searches the wilderness for a medicinal plant that saved the life of his friend years earlier.
The Fossil Feud
When bloodthirsty Canadian trappers try to kill him, mountain man Jim Bridger takes cover in an unexplored valley. There, he stumbles into a family of escaped slaves who show him the footprints and fossilized bones of long-dead monsters.
A Shard of Glass
Haunted by the memory of leaving a man to die, mountain man Jim Bridger resolves not to repeat the mistake. When his trapping party runs out of water while crossing a barren desert, Bridger struggles desperately to keep them all alive.