The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Opening episode of the series, introduces Jim Bowie - and how he encountered a bear while armed only with a rifle, which misfires and had to flee for his life, which inspired the first Bowie knife to be made, according to Jim's own specification.

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

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

Jim Bowie accepts a temporary 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.

Jim Bowie smashes a fur monopoly and makes open bidding available for Louisiana trappers.

A colorful old Louisiana custom almost makes Bowie an involuntary bridegroom, when he is mistake for Rafe Bradford, who tried to escape the "broomstick wedding."

The Hawk, a highwayman whose boldness and cruelty strike terror into the hearts of all who hear his name, sets out to rob Jim Bowie and his friends.

Jim Bowie returns to Opelousas from a business trip to find the Louisiana town taken over by a gang of tough guys who plan to drive his family out next.

Bowie breaks up a plot by Louisiana racketeers to extort money from superstitious Cajun farmers.

Commissioned by President Andrew Jackson to aid an Army Major sent to foil a plot to withdraw Louisiana from the Union, Jim Bowie is forced to impersonate the Major when assassins cut hi down.

Duprez, the owner of a land grant that gives him prior title to a large tract that Jim Bowie and his brother, Rezin, have recently sold is forcibly evicting the buyers, alleging they were defrauded. Judge Koford assures Jim the Duprez grant is legal. Bowie discovers Duprez' fraud, forgery and finally gets into a knife fight.

Jim Bowie comes to the aid of some young ladies of a finishing school and their teacher when he finds himself involved in an elopement, which turns into an abduction. Even Bowie himself is held prisoner temporarily.

Jim discovers that a former slave he had freed has been captured and enslaved again, and is about to be sold at a slave auction.

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

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

Jim Bowie takes a detour on a trip home from Christmas when a thief steals the gift he was taking to his mother. In his chase to recover it, he lands on a plantation where he is mistaken for the long lost son of the family. While in the masquerade he eventually recovers his property as a result of his kindness to the aged head of the household.

Jim Bowie teaches a 10-year-old French Marquis a lesson in Americanism.

Jim Bowie, the frontiersman, Sam Houston, later to be the first governor of Texas, and Jean LaFitte, the pirate, are clashing characters, all in competition in bidding for a racing mare for President Andrew Jackson, known in history as "Old Hickory."

When an alms-seeker, who has brought good luck to Jim Bowie, is brutally attached for no apparent reason, Bowie finds him a haven with the 10-year-old Marquis and his aunt, and then Bowie sets out to unravel the beggar's mysterious past, which leads him through the dangers which climax a big fight in a tapestry warehouse.

Jim Bowie, American frontiersman, and Osceola, Seminole renegade chief, match knife against lance, with complications for Bowie in trying to get Osceola to compromise with the United States over the Seminole's problems of remaining in their ancestral region east of the Mississippi.

Bowie buys a lottery ticket from Jean Dubois a former champion swordsman who is trying to raise money for his daughter's dowry. Dubois notices that Bowie is carrying a large sum of money and unsuccessfully tries to take it from him when Bowie leaves the tavern. Bowie, Houston and Lafitte decide to help Dubois, however, Dubois' future in-laws have other plans for his daughter's dowry.

With the cooperation of the United States Army, Bowie sets out to carry half a million dollars in gold from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Before he reaches his destination he runs into trouble with a horse-thief, pickpocket, and a whole gang of robbers, which he deals with successfully.

Jim Bowie earns monetary profit and helps Simon Bolivar liberate Latin America from Spain.

Jim Bowie learns the evil effects of a "tontite" under which a large fund goes to the last surviving child of a group who provide the capital.

Jim Bowie breaks up a crooked casino in New Orleans when his partner gambles away mutual funds. Before Jim recovers, the money, the trial leans from New Orleans into the backcountry of Louisiana.