The Adventures of Jim Bowie: Season 1

Seasons

• Season: 1
• Season: 2
• Season: 3

• How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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