The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Name: The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Released: 1956-09-07T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Scott Forbes, Robert Cornthwaite, Peter Hansen

TV Show · Western · Adventure

Set in the Louisiana Territory around 1830, wealthy planter Jim Bowie encounters many famous people in New Orleans, or the backwoods, relying on the knife he supposedly invented for protection.

1956 · 25m

Starring Scott Forbes, Robert Cornthwaite, Peter Hansen

EPISODE 1

The Birth of the Blade

Jim Bowie encounters a bear and must flee for his life, the event which inspired the first Bowie knife to be made.
EPISODE 2

The Squatter

Jim Bowie gives an arrogant Southern belle a lesson in manners and wins her sympathy for an impoverished immigrant family.
EPISODE 3

The Adventure with Audubon

Jim Bowie intervenes when the French elements attempt to identify John James Audubon as their missing Dauphin — but he prefers American citizenship. Audubon was world-famous as a painter of birds.
EPISODE 4

Deputy Sheriff

Jim Bowie accepts an appointment as a deputy to protect a prisoner from mob violence, who, being son of a French society at odds with Americans, is falsely accused of a crime committed by his father.
EPISODE 14

Outlaw Kingdom

Jim Bowie loses a fortune in trade goods to river pirates and almost loses his life in recovering them.
EPISODE 15

The Swordsman

Jim Bowie has a fling in New Orleans’ high society, climaxing in a duel with a count over a glamorous aristocrat whom Bowie fancies.