User reviews

I've enjoyed watching the first a few episodes. Good stories, well acted. But I do wonder where the Indians, living in middle of nowhere, with little to no contact with white men, get all those rifles., gun power, musket balls and saddles. Secondly, many of their horses bridles have modern steel bits. One scene had two horses wearing halters which appeared to be made of modern braded nylon. There has been a lot of attention paid to story detail so I was surprised to see these pretty obvious errors.

Good stories. We need more programs like this showing history, not just "shoot em up" Hollywood westerns.

Loved the series. Particularly liked the settings. HOWEVER!!! I really want to ask about the Bigfoot in the background in season 2, the Andrew Henry episode. At the 14:40 mark a large hairy beast can be seen in the background moving into the trees. Right side of the frame. I have played this many times and after viewing the fuzzy image so many times, it is either an effective ruse or a genuine siting.

Question: Was that just a dressed up crew member playing a joke or was it an actual siting?????? Where was it filmed? (Looks like the Pacific NW?) Can someone send me a note at FB and fill me in about my inquiry? I would just love to know.. Thanks. OR better yet, place the answer on your next bulk email.

I find it funny how the director/producer equipped all natives with flintlock rifles. When (Ep4) Lewis/Clark reach Idaho and the Shoshone tribe how is it that 80% of the tribe meeting the expedition already had rifles in hand? It's 1805! They were fat and few between at that point in our history, especially in the mountainous northwest. Civilians traveling in that area didn't happen until pioneers started going west in the 1830's-1840's.

I found it interesting that Jim Bridger (Ep2) actually left a man behind to die even after he himself had to traverse the wild naked after being tortured by the Blackfeet and reach other trappers/traders of his main group.

"Into The Wild Frontier" is a fantastic show. The cinematography is excellent with the beautiful wilderness background. Finally, a good series with historical accounts. Truth is better than fiction. I don't have faith of it continuing with such little information concerning it's future. It was on one minute and then GONE with no advertising for more episodes. Not good at all with the marketing.

I enjoyed the historical re-enactments as well as the discussions by historians and university professors. A miniseries on INSP that is much better than anything on cable or network TV, it depicts real people in the American west and is both entertaining and educational. Sad that comic book heroes are glorified on TV instead of these actual American heroes who played a large part in civilizing the American West. I grew up watching westerns on TV and the shows on now and the movies produced by Hollywood are mostly dreadful.

I'd love to see more shows like this one - good acting by young attractive unknown actors and a well done series.

I discovered this series.

I do mountain man reanacting and love this stuff.

But I'm not sure Indians had western saddles with horns.

The scenery is amazing.

Wish it told who played , I have read the journals.

I've only seen one episode, the one in which a Daniel Boone daughter was captured while canoeing. I thought it was excellent.

A mixed review a year ago included: "But I do wonder where the Indians, living in the middle of nowhere, with little or no contact with white men, get all those rifles, gun power, musket balls and saddles."

Uh, well, it's called the Fur Trade. By the early 1800s, the locals had been trading with Europeans for over 300 years. Muskets, rifles, lead, powder, silver ornaments, beads from Italy, vermilion from China, fabric from India, and blankets & Sheffield knives from England. I don't know what bits & saddles are right for Blackfeet & Shoshone, but know that Spanish bits were steel, as far back as Coronado.

Excellent watchable and educational.

Historians narrate events in American History as factually as you've ever thought you already knew.

Dramatizations are either SNL type parodies of an actual dramatization, or someone deliberately made them cheesy enough to see where the line is with subtle comedy.

All-in-all it was enjoyable, and got most of the main points it was trying to tell. The attention to detail was terrible as others have mentioned (fat Native Americans with saddled horses, Jemimah Boone having her hair combed with something you could buy at Walmart, Kit Carson fixing his fence with a claw hammer bought from Lowes/Home Depot, etc.) I did learn about some things I didn't know, but I was a little disappointed about it missing some things I did know. For example, Daniel Boone's escape from a British-backed Shawnee war party during the American Revolution in order to run 4 marathons in 4 days barefoot while avoiding being tracked so that he could warn Boonsborough of the pending attack wasn't even mentioned. Additionally, there was far more to Jim Bridger than just leaving Hugh Glass behind as a youngster (especially since it's uncertain that it was even him). Episode 2 should have been about Hugh Glass and another episode dedicated to Bridger (Hugh Glass was the real-life man upon whom The Revenant and Man in the Wilderness is based).

Its worth a watch, but it's also worth looking into the rest of the stories.

I was very impressed the way Jim back-and-forth carried a cow on one shoulder using one arm. He really made it look effortless which is so impressive. They don't make like men like that anymore in fact they don't even make women like that anymore.

While the majority of the series seems to be really well-developed, the producers lost my respect when I see Shoshone Indians meeting Lewis and Clark with double-rigged Western Saddles and metal curb bits in their horses mouths. If you are aiming for authenticity, you'd better go all the way. Even in the John Colter episode, they are using saddles that hadn't been developed yet for the next 20 years, and those brand-spanking new saddles on their horses were a far cry from the big heavy square-skirted saddles that the Texas cowpunchers were using. My husband now refuses to even watch the series, so I'm having to sneak in an episode when I can. :/

The Indian outfits were a mix match of modern stuff and poorly worn by actors. The most outrages item was the Crow Chief headdress. Looks like it was a Halloween headdress kit that was smashed under his kid's toy box, taken to a pawn shop, stepped on a few times, then found it for the filming shot and put on backwards too, of all things. Yes, he had it on backwards. Didn't even speak Crow and I know the guy can speak the language. Horrible and embarrassing the feathers were wrapped with blue yarn. Who is in charge of wardrobe. Just watched season 2 and they had Blackfeet wearing bone breastplates-Wrong!!! Come on people.

Very disappointed in how poorly written and researched this entire series is. Anyone who studies this era and the Anglo frontiersmen will know that they weren't nearly as heroic as this series makes them out to be. And their behavior towards indigenous American Indians was in many cases horrible, certainly far worse than this series admits. The writing is juvenile, the myths being promoted are very one-sided and biased. I kept thinking I was watching a series meant to be on some cable channel being promoted to people who are ignorant and uncritical and want to remain that way. The series certainly caters to such unfortunate narratives of history.