Rick Moses plays wilderness trapper Daniel Boone, one of America's favorite heroes, in this action-adventure series. The legendary Boone is pictured here as a younger man than when Fess Parker had the role in an earlier series. In the first show, he's out to blaze a trail through the wilderness and explore the forbidden Cumberland Gap while a hired killer (Jeremy Brett as Langford) waits in ambush aided by a band of Shawnee trackers. Boone is unaware that his trek, which inevitably would entice settlers to move into the territory, just what the French don't want.