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 relies on the knife he invented after breaking his regular one fighting a bear.

1956 · 21m

EPISODE 1

The Birth of the Blade

Introducing Jim Bowie, and how he encountered a bear while armed only with a rifle, which misfires and had to flee.
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 naturalist John James Audubon as their missing Dauphin.
EPISODE 4

Deputy Sheriff

Jim Bowie accepts a temporary appointment as a deputy to protect a prisoner, the son of a French society member, from mob violence.
EPISODE 5

Trapline

Jim believes a fur company may be trying to drive him away by killing any Cajun trapper with whom he does business.
EPISODE 6

Broomstick Wedding

A colourful old Louisiana custom almost makes Bowie an involuntary bridegroom, when he is mistake for Rafe Bradford, who tried to escape.