Season 1

1956-09-07 · 30m

How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

1956-09-14 · 30m

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

1956-09-21 · 30m

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

1956-09-28 · 30m

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

1956-10-05 · 30m

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.

1956-10-12 · 30m

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

1956-10-19 · 30m

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

1956-10-26 · 30m

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

1956-11-02 · 30m

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.

1956-11-09 · 30m

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.

1956-11-16 · 30m

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.

1956-11-23 · 30m

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

1956-11-30 · 30m

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.

1956-12-07 · 30m

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

1956-12-14 · 30m

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

1956-12-21 · 30m

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

1956-12-28 · 30m

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

1957-01-04 · 30m

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

1957-01-11 · 30m

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

1957-01-18 · 30m

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.

1957-01-25 · 30m

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.

1957-02-01 · 30m

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

1957-02-08 · 30m

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

1957-02-15 · 30m

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

1957-02-22 · 30m

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

1957-03-01 · 30m

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.

1957-03-08 · 30m

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

1957-03-15 · 30m

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

1957-03-22 · 30m

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

1957-03-29 · 30m

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

1957-04-05 · 30m

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

1957-04-12 · 30m

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

1957-04-19 · 30m

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.

1957-04-26 · 30m

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

1957-05-03 · 30m

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

1957-05-10 · 30m

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

1957-05-17 · 30m

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

1957-05-24 · 30m

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.