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The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger

The Tall Tales of Jim Bridger

Tales from the Western frontier inspired by the adventures of famed mountain man Jim Bridger; as Bridger guides a new wave of Americans heading west, he must help them survive the same life-and-death situations that made him a legend.
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Season 1
10 of 10 episodes

  • When Jim Bridger's second-in-command begins enforcing camp discipline with brutal violence, one trapper pushes back, and a showdown seems inevitable.

  • Frontiersman Jim Bridger tells a group of settlers a story claiming he was once killed by warriors, yet somehow lived to tell the tale; they think he's joking, but Bridger soon proves that he really did rise from the dead.

  • Jim Bridger and his fellow trappers believe they are near El Dorado, the mythical Spanish city of gold, when they discover a river filled with gold, but their insatiable greed turns friends into enemies and puts Bridger at risk of a gruesome fate.

  • 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.

  • Jim Bridger and a lone Shoshone brave must overcome their suspicions and learn to trust each other when they are ambushed by a Blackfeet war party.

  • After his fur trapping expedition is surprised by a Crow war party, legendary mountain man Jim Bridger suddenly finds himself in a desperate struggle to rescue his fellow trappers when one of them goes missing, and another is on the brink of madness.

  • A young Jim Bridger helps a Shoshone woman escape the clutches of her abusive husband; as Bridger squares off against the frontier ruffian and his henchmen, he soon realizes that the woman he is helping is none other than the legendary Sacagawea.

  • When a young girl is bitten by a rattlesnake, mountain man Jim Bridger finds himself in a race against time to save her arm and keep her alive as he desperately searches the wilderness for a medicinal plant that once saved the life of his friend.

  • When bloodthirsty Canadian trappers try to kill him, mountain man Jim Bridger takes cover in an unexplored valley; he runs headlong into a family of escaped slaves who show him the huge footprints and fossilized bones of long-dead monsters.

  • Haunted by the memory of leaving a man to die, mountain man Jim Bridger is determined not to repeat the mistake; when his trapping party runs out of water while crossing a barren desert, Bridger struggles desperately to keep his companions alive.

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    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.
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Tales from the Western frontier inspired by the adventures of famed mountain man Jim Bridger; as Bridger guides a new wave of Americans heading west, he must help them survive the same life-and-death situations that made him a legend.

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Rib Hillis

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