The Great Adventure
Season 1, Episode 13: The Colonel from Connecticut
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The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Hunley
Episode 2
The Death of Sitting Bull
Episode 3
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
Episode 4
Six Wagons to the Sea
Episode 5
The Story of Nathan Hale
Episode 6
Go Down, Moses
Episode 7
The Great Diamond Mountain
Episode 8
The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis
Episode 9
The Outlaw and the Nun
Episode 10
The Man Who Stole New York City
Episode 11
A Boy at War
Episode 12
Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man
Episode 13
The Colonel from Connecticut
Episode 14
Teeth of the Lion
Episode 15
Rodger Young
Episode 16
The Testing of Sam Houston
Episode 17
The Special Courage of Captain Pratt
Episode 18
The Night Raiders
Episode 19
Plague
Episode 20
The Pathfinder
Episode 21
The President Vanishes
Episode 22
The Henry Bergh Story
Episode 23
Kentucky's Bloody Ground
Episode 24
The Siege of Boonesborough
Episode 25
Escape
Episode 26
The Pirate and the Patriot