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How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

The Birth of the Blade

Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.

The Squatter

Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.

An Adventure with Audubon

Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.

Deputy Sheriff

A fur company is apparently trying to keep the Cajun fur trappers in line by killing anyone who trades with an independent dealer - like Jim Bowie.

Trapline

A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.

Broomstick Wedding

A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.

Natchez Trace

On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.

Jim Bowie Comes Home

Bowie encounters a group of farmers who are being duped into paying protection money to an old woman against the ghost of a famous Louisiana pirate.

The Ghost of Jean Battoo

Bowie finds that a friend of his has been asked by President Andrew Jackson to try to talk a group of French planters out of seceding from the Union.

The Secessionist

Just when Jim and his brother try to sell a large tract of land, a Frenchman shows up claiming to have the proper title to the property, which is verified by a local judge.

Land Jumpers

Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.

The Select Females

Bowie comes to the aid of a former slave who he had freed, but who has been captured and is being sold again at a slave auction.

Bowie and His Slave

Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.

Outlaw Kingdom

Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.

The Swordsman

Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.

The Return of the Alcibiade

Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.

Monsieur Francois

Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.

A Horse for Old Hickory

Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.

The Beggar of New Orleans

Bowie comes to the aid of the native Seminoles, whom the army is trying to move from their traditional home to a tract of less desirable land.

Osceola

An expert French swordsman sells Bowie a lottery ticket, but then after Bowie wins he decides that the winings should belong to him and comes after Bowie.

Master of Arms

Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.

Convoy Gold

Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.

Spanish Intrigue

Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.

Bayou Tontine

Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.

German George

Trying to stop an Indian uprising, Bowie only gets into more trouble after telling a native Cherokee princess the story of John Smith and Pocahontas.

An Eye for an Eye

Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.

The Captain's Chimp

Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.

Jackson Assassination

Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.

Rezin Bowie, Gambler

When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.

Thieves' Market

After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.

The Pearl and the Crown

Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.

The General's Disgrace

Bowie organizes a lottery to help an orphanage, unaware that the men he has hired plan to fix the drawing so that they will collect the winnings.

The Lottery

Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.

The Intruder

Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.

Country Cousin

Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.

The Bound Girl

When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.

Bounty Hunter

As if his passport difficulties weren't enough, when Bowie crosses the border into Texas he finds out that someone is trying to kill him.

Gone to Texas

When Bowie goes to his dead Indian friend's home town to deliver the news to his father, he finds that the father has just been shot.

Epitaph for an Indian

A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.

Flowers for McDonough

A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.

The Irishman

Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.

Counterfeit Dixie

Bowie tries to purchase a lead mine, but the pacifist owner refuses to sell it to him if the metal will be used to make bullets.

Bullet Metal

Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.

Quarantine

When Bowie finds that he cannot purchase some land because the owners have just been swindled out of it, he decides to help them recover it.

A Fortune for Madame

Recovering from a gunshot wound in a fancy mansion, Bowie is asked by a young woman not to identify the person who shot him.

House Divided

While on his way to inform the authorities of a plot to misuse the labor of prisoners, Bowie is trapped in a warehouse and attacked by a whip-wielding stranger.

The Whip

When Bowie and an Indian friend make up a story to send an annoying acquaintance on a wild goose chase, it comes back to haunt them.

Pearls of Talimeco

Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.

Charivari

Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.

Hare and Tortoise

In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.

The Bridegroom

Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.

The Alligator

Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.

Country Girl

Bowie and his pirate friend Jean Lafitte, attempting to rescue a U.S. ambassador who has been captured by revolutionary forces in Mexico, take refuge in an inn at Christmastime.

Mexican Adventure

When a hillbilly puts up his daughter as a stake in a poker game, Bowie goes along with the idea to teach him a lesson, and then decides to send her to a finishing school to become a lady.

Silk Purse

When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.

Choctaw Honor

An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.

Close Shave

Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.

Pirate on Horseback

When Bowie and his brother learn that the bank they own in New Orleans is being robbed, they try to keep the thieves from getting away by using the city's signaling cannon.

Curfew Cannon

Bowie learns that foul play may be attempted at a concert arranged by his friend at the newspaper for composer John Howard Payne.

Home Sweet Home

Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.

Deaf Smith

While negotiating with Mexican government officials to build a cotton mill in Texas, Bowie is attracted to the daughter of one of them.

Ursula

Bowie gets a lead on the location of the lost silver mine of the Apaches, but both hostile Apaches and Mexican officials make it difficult for him to follow it up.

Apache Silver

Bowie comes to the aid of naturalist Johnny Appleseed, who has been captured by criminals who think that the riches in the ground he talks about are buried treasure.

A Grave for Jim Bowie

When Bowie solicits help from his cousin after being swindled by a group of good-natured hillbillies, he almosts gets the poor fellow married to one of them.

Up the Creek

Bowie manages to get back across the border into Texas by signing on as an Englishman's valet, but then the pair are attacked by both outlaws and Comanches.

The Lion's Cub

Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.

Horse Thief

Bowie becomes the blood brother of an Apache tribe whom he believes know the location of the lost silver mine he has been searching for, but discovers that his old friend has done the same thing with a tribe of Comanches who also know the secret.

Jim Bowie, Apache

When young Jefferson Davis wants to join Bowie in his search for the lost mine, his older brother objects and challenges Bowie to a duel.

The Brothers

Looking for an investment for his mother, Bowie considers purchasing artwork instead of another plantation.

Patron of the Arts

At the President's urgent request, Bowie guides a doctor to a Choctaw village to cure a sick boy, only to discover that the doctor is an inexperienced youth fresh out of medical school.

Bad Medicine

Bowie decides to run for Congress from Louisiana, and meets another frontiersman who did the same thing from Tennessee, Davy Crockett.

A Night in Tennessee

In Natchez, Bowie tries to find a new home for an infant who was the sole survivor of an Indian attack, but has trouble with the sheriff.

Bowie's Baby

Bowie tries to find out what happened to his cousin's bride, who disappeared on her wedding day after being seen with a hypnotist.

The Cave

Owed a lot of money by a man who has no cash, Bowie makes him an offer for his land in New Orleans, and we learn the origin of some of the street names there.

Man of the Streets

Jess Miller, in Texas to collect some money for his friend Bowie, is mistaken for Bowie by the Mexican army, who try to take him prisoner.

The Puma

The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.

The Best Seasons of The Adventures of Jim Bowie

The Best Seasons of The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Season 1

Season 2