“The dark and bloody ground. What a harsh phrase for such a peaceful countryside.”

Fess Parker as Daniel Boone and Ed Ames as Mingo star in this 1960s network television frontier show.

In the 5th episode of season 3, President George Washington visits Kentucky in response to a letter purportedly from Daniel Boone. In reality, Boone never made the request. It turned out to be a conspiracy for an attempted assassination of President Washington.

Not surprisingly, Dan’l and Mingo came through.