Season 1 · returning in recent seasons
Marty Meierotto
Two Rivers, Alaska
A fur trapper who flies his bush plane into remote Alaskan areas. HISTORY's 2025 announcement describes him guiding his daughter Noah through a bush-plane landing.
Photo: Shawn Carter, USGS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows the region, not the person.
Season 1 · long-running cast member
Eustace Conway
Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina
Lives on Turtle Island and teaches wilderness skills; early coverage documented his subsistence lifestyle and a land-ownership dispute over his camp.
Photo: Skapur, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows Eustace Conway.
Season 1 · farewell season 14
Tom Oar
Yaak River Valley, northwestern Montana
A former rodeo cowboy turned tanner and trapper in the Yaak. HISTORY's 2025 press release called season 14 his farewell season.
Photo: Davidmcarson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows the region, not the person.
Season 13
Lauro Eklund
Alaska — North Slope and Iditarod country
Season 13 followed his sled-dog training and Iditarod attempt across Alaska's North Slope and the Iditarod route.
Photo: Mudflattop, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows the region, not the person.
Seasons 13–14
Mike Horstman
Kodiak, Alaska
HISTORY described his work catching snow crabs in season 13 and his Kodiak homestead in the season 14 announcement.
Photo: Yathin S Krishnappa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shows the region, not the person.
Season 14 newcomers
Chance and Soraya Painter
Remote Alaskan bush
A couple raising two children while building a homestead in the Alaskan bush, introduced in HISTORY's 2025 season 14 announcement.
Season 14
Bret Bohn and Ivy O'Guinn
Alaska
The season 14 announcement describes them defending their salmon nets from a brown bear.