Aired: 9/7/1956
How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife
Aired: 9/14/1956
Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.
Aired: 9/21/1956
Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.
Aired: 9/28/1956
Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.
Aired: 10/5/1956
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.
Aired: 10/12/1956
A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.
Aired: 10/19/1956
A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.
Aired: 10/26/1956
On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.
Aired: 11/2/1956
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.
Aired: 11/9/1956
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.
Aired: 11/16/1956
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.
Aired: 11/23/1956
Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.
Aired: 11/30/1956
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.
Aired: 12/7/1956
Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.
Aired: 12/14/1956
Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.
Aired: 12/21/1956
Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.
Aired: 12/28/1956
Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.
Aired: 1/4/1957
Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.
Aired: 1/11/1957
Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.
Aired: 1/18/1957
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.
Aired: 1/25/1957
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.
Aired: 2/1/1957
Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.
Aired: 2/8/1957
Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.
Aired: 2/15/1957
Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.
Aired: 2/22/1957
Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.
Aired: 3/1/1957
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.
Aired: 3/8/1957
Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.
Aired: 3/15/1957
Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.
Aired: 3/22/1957
Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.
Aired: 3/29/1957
When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.
Aired: 4/5/1957
After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.
Aired: 4/12/1957
Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.
Aired: 4/19/1957
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.
Aired: 4/26/1957
Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.
Aired: 5/3/1957
Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.
Aired: 5/10/1957
Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.
Aired: 5/17/1957
When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.
Aired: 5/24/1957
As if his passport difficulties weren't enough, when Bowie crosses the border into Texas he finds out that someone is trying to kill him.
