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Any excuse to get out of the cabin
Daniel and Mingo come upon distraught settler Jasper Ledbetter, who claims that Delaware Indians attacked his wagon and abducted his wife and child. They set out to investigate, but soon become suspicious of his story.
Another around-the-fort episode, likely produced with budget constraints after previous Pennsylvania and Ohio River adventures. Noted Broadway actor and Tony recipient Sidney Blackmer plays Ledbetter, but his talents are likely misspent on a simple garrulous-old-man part. An interlude at Daniel's cabin is worked in, with the usual staging of questions by Becky and Israel, but the story would have been better paced by letting Daniel and Mingo stay in the field.
Initial villain-in-the-wings duties are assigned to the Delaware tribe, giving the Shawnee a temporary break. Such is remotely possible; having been pushed out of their homeland along the Pa.-NJ river border shortly after the Revolution, the Delaware for a time allied with the Shawnee resistance in Ohio that culminated in the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. The Shawnee do show up close to the end, as usual adopting Great Plains regalia with the same enthusiasm that the newly affluent spend on online acquisitions. Reference is made to Maysville, Ky., which dates the episode as taking place from 1787-on.
A minimal amount of against-the-odds action in the finale, but a meandering storyline culminates in a forced slapstick conclusion; the hour would have been better spent in a Mingo solo adventure or even giving Cincinatus something to do other than storekeeping.
Another around-the-fort episode, likely produced with budget constraints after previous Pennsylvania and Ohio River adventures. Noted Broadway actor and Tony recipient Sidney Blackmer plays Ledbetter, but his talents are likely misspent on a simple garrulous-old-man part. An interlude at Daniel's cabin is worked in, with the usual staging of questions by Becky and Israel, but the story would have been better paced by letting Daniel and Mingo stay in the field.
Initial villain-in-the-wings duties are assigned to the Delaware tribe, giving the Shawnee a temporary break. Such is remotely possible; having been pushed out of their homeland along the Pa.-NJ river border shortly after the Revolution, the Delaware for a time allied with the Shawnee resistance in Ohio that culminated in the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. The Shawnee do show up close to the end, as usual adopting Great Plains regalia with the same enthusiasm that the newly affluent spend on online acquisitions. Reference is made to Maysville, Ky., which dates the episode as taking place from 1787-on.
A minimal amount of against-the-odds action in the finale, but a meandering storyline culminates in a forced slapstick conclusion; the hour would have been better spent in a Mingo solo adventure or even giving Cincinatus something to do other than storekeeping.
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- Nov 20, 2022
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