The Adventures of Jim Bowie

How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through peoples windows.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesnt stop him.

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 citys signaling cannon.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

At the Presidents 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.

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.

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.