Jonathan Banner discovers American soldiers on an expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River, which they hope is the natural border between the U.S. and Canada.
In 1817, Falcon and Banner are sent to Fort Gannon to stop whiskey traders from disrupting the fur trade. The three whiskey traders make the first move, attacking and injuring a preacher.
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon escort Peter Swayze, a member of the Hudson Bay Company's Board of Directors, back to the fort. While he is eventually meant to replace the current factor of the company, Swayze is ignorant and childish. During a trade with the Ojibwe tribe, the factor negotiates...
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent to exhume the corpse of Moore (a mass murderer) and bring it back to their fort. They are accompanied by Kendricks, the man who killed and buried Moore. As they travel, they discover inconsistencies in Kendricks' story about Moore. Falcon is spooked by t...
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent on a mission with the British military, led by Captain Malton, who immediately suspects Banner of mutiny. Malton sends the Native American guides away violently, believing them to be in league with Banner. Malton's grueling pace leads to a man to fall do...
The lovely Maggie MacGregor resists her arranged marriage to the old frontiersman Cluny, a match coordinated by her father. It is common knowledge that Maggie and young Colin Shaw are in love. On the eve of their wedding, Shaw makes a scene at the fort's tavern, and asserts that Cluny is already ...
Banner must deal with a romantic quadrangle - Colin Shaw lover Maggie MacGregor who is engaged to Maitland, an up-and-coming Hudson's Bay factor. Jack Cherry only wants to marry Maggie.
Jonathan Banner discovers American soldiers on an expedition to find the source of the Mississippi River, which they hope is the natural border between the U.S. and Canada. Disappointed that it is not, a fight ensues over what should be the border, but Banner's party and the soldiers settle their...
Jonathan Banner and Pierre Falcon are sent on a special assignment from Fort Gannon to meet with Standing Bear. When the arrive, they meet Standing Bear's "adopted" daughter, blonde-haired blue-eyed Lucy Shepherd, who was orphaned at a young age and has grown up in the tribe, knowing nothing else...
Factor Hall at Fort King calls for Banner and Falcon, and upon their arrival they see a barricade of Indians surrounding the camp. White Buffalo, the son of the chief has been killed, and his murderer is imprisoned in Fort King awaiting trial. The prisoner turns out to be a young woman who believ...
McLeod comes to Banner with a strange request - come to his cabin and shoot a witch with a silver bullet. When Banner refuses, McLeod threatens to go to the fort's tavern and recruit a barfly to accomplish the deed. Banner and Falcon reluctantly agree to investigate and learn the "witch" who is s...
When a British patrol is ambushed by Indians, their green drummer boys flees into the woods. Disobeying orders, Banner leads a group of Hudson's Bay men to the rescue.
Montgomery Velvet, a notorious dueler, arrives at the fort intent on dueling Jonathan Banner. He provokes him in front of Pierre Falcon, the factor Balfour, and his daughter Joanna.
A strong-willed young woman comes to Fort Gannon in search of her fiancé, Harry Sinclair, whom she learns is a alcoholic accused of cowardice. She refuses to believe that her betrothed is past redemption and begs Jonathan to help him to recover. There efforts are nearly thwarted when Sinclair's h...
While the fort's commander is away, a young martinet sentences a Shoshone Indian to death based upon perjured testimony. Banner tries to delay the execution of the sentence until he can conduct an informal investigation of the crime, which causes the acting commander to arrest him for insubordina...
A violent outlaw (Jingo) shows up at the fort. Pierre Falcon recognizes him immediately to be his former partner Jingo, who he thought was dead. Falcon reminisces about being partners with Jingo along with two Indian brothers. The four worked well together, and were close friends until they were ...
Banner has a crisis of conscience after he and Falcon wipe out an attacking Cree war party that consisted only of boys. He travels to the Cree Indian camp in hopes of ending the ceaseless bloodshed. His hopes are dashed when the tribesmen capture him and bind him to a stake while heaping wood abo...
Banner, Falcon and three other white men are held captive by Cree Indians. Chief Blood is convinced that one of the whites kidnapped and murdered an Indian girl.
Depicting the rough and tumble fur-trading days of what would one day become Canada, through the eyes of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Banner and Falcon try to open trade with Spotted Elk and his Northern Cheyenne tribe. The difficult negotiations founder when a young trapper insists on making unwanted advances to the Indian chief's lovely daughter. When the Cheyenne capture the trapper and take back to their camp to be burned a...
Faced with a dwindling supply of furs to send to Great Britain, the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company desperately needs to create a relationship with the Blackfeet Indians who land contains untapped resources, but each trading party sent to treat with them is massacred. Factor Oglivie is convi...
