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Frontier Fighters

39 episodes · 1937–1938 · Syndicated · Historical

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A syndicated series of fifteen-minute dramas about the explorers, soldiers, settlers and missionaries who opened the American West, from La Salle and Lewis and Clark to the Comstock Lode, Custer and the purchase of Alaska.

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Episodes

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1937

• Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle 1937 · Syndicated · 15 min
  La Salle, the great French explorer of the Mississippi and Louisiana.

1938

• Lewis and Clark 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  With the faithful Sacajawea's help, President Jefferson's expedition reaches the Pacific.
• Zebulon Pike 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Zebulon Pike's search for the Continental Divide and his discovery of Pikes Peak.
• John C. Fremont 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  John C. Fremont explores the country between the Missouri River and the Rockies.
• Kit Carson 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Kit Carson leaves Franklin, Missouri, and joins a wagon train for Santa Fe.
• Jedediah Strong Smith 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Jedediah Smith follows the Missouri, traps furs and fights his way across the northern plains.
• Marcus Whitman 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Missionary Marcus Whitman gives his life to bring his faith to the Indians and helps secure the Northwest for the United States.
• John McLoughlin 1938 · Syndicated · 13 min
  Dr. John McLoughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company welcomes American settlers to Oregon.
• The Donner Party 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  The ill-fated wagon train trapped by the snows of the Sierra on the way west.
• The Fall of the Alamo 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  The Texans' last stand against Santa Anna's army at the Alamo.
• Stephen W. Kearny 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  General Stephen Kearny marches all the way to Santa Fe to face the Mexican army.
• Brigham Young 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Brigham Young leads the Mormons to the valley that would become Salt Lake City.
• Joseph Meek 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Joe Meek, the mountain man who helped bring Oregon into the United States.
• Captain George E. Pickett 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  Captain George Pickett keeps the Stars and Stripes flying over San Juan Island on the Canadian border.
• John Sutter and James W. Marshall 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Sutter, Marshall and the start of the California gold rush.
• Buffalo Bill Cody 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  The Pony Express gives fourteen-year-old William Cody his start as Buffalo Bill.
• Pikes Peak Rush: Colorado Territory 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Gold and silver strikes open up what would become Colorado Territory.
• Santa Fe Trail 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  The road from Kansas City to Santa Fe is made safe for travelers.
• James B. "Wild Bill" Hickok 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  How James Butler Hickok earned the name "Wild Bill," outshooting a gang and surviving six bullet wounds and a knife wound.
• Reverend Thomas Starr King 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Called to San Francisco in 1860, the Reverend Thomas Starr King devotes himself to saving the Union.
• Cochise and Captain Tom Jeffords 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  President Grant sends General O. O. Howard, with Captain Tom Jeffords's help, to deal with the Apache chief Cochise.
• Grenville Dodge and Leland Stanford 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  General Grenville Dodge and Leland Stanford complete the first transcontinental railroad.
• Massacre at Taos, New Mexico 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  After a mob kills New Mexico's governor, order slowly comes to the territory.
• Custer's Last Stand at Little Big Horn 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  The story behind Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn.
• Stephen F. Austin 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  Stephen F. Austin and the founding of Texas.
• Oregon 54-40 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  How Oregon became American territory without a war over the border.
• Nevada and the Comstock Lode 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  The Comstock Lode's big bonanza puts Nevada on the map.
• John Phillips: Hero of Fort Phil Kearny 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  John Phillips's daring ride saves a fort on the Bozeman Trail.
• Oklahoma Land Rush 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  The government breaks its promise to the Indians and opens their territory to settlers.
• Oregon and the Pacific Republic 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  A plan for an independent Pacific Republic during the Civil War.
• Annie D. Tallent 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Annie Tallent, the first white woman in the Black Hills of Dakota.
• Ira Burton Perrine 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Ira Perrine dreams of a dam that will irrigate a new frontier in Idaho.
• Wells Fargo 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  A new way to protect the stagecoaches proves itself.
• Governor Anson P. K. Safford 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  Arizona's "Little Governor" crusades for public schools.
• Arthur A. Denny 1938 · Syndicated · 15 min
  The founding of Seattle.
• Yellowstone Park 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  How President Grant was persuaded to create Yellowstone National Park.
• Eliza Ann Brooks 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  The story of a pioneer mother.
• General N. A. Miles 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  General Nelson Miles and the story behind Wounded Knee.
• Alaska 1938 · Syndicated · 14 min
  "Seward's Folly": the purchase of Alaska.