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Episode 1: The Birth of the Blade
1956-09-0730 min
How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife
Season guide
The Adventures of Jim Bowie Season 1 — Episodes and Where to Watch
38 episodes · first aired 1956-09-07
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Episode guide
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Episode 2: The Squatter
1956-09-1430 min
Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.
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Episode 3: An Adventure with Audubon
1956-09-2130 min
Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.
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Episode 4: Deputy Sheriff
1956-09-2830 min
Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.
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Episode 5: Trapline
1956-10-0530 min
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.
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Episode 6: Broomstick Wedding
1956-10-1230 min
A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.
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Episode 7: Natchez Trace
1956-10-1930 min
A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.
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Episode 8: Jim Bowie Comes Home
1956-10-2630 min
On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.
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Episode 9: The Ghost of Jean Battoo
1956-11-0230 min
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.
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Episode 10: The Secessionist
1956-11-0930 min
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.
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Episode 11: Land Jumpers
1956-11-1630 min
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.
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Episode 12: The Select Females
1956-11-2330 min
Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.
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Episode 13: Bowie and His Slave
1956-11-3030 min
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.
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Episode 14: Outlaw Kingdom
1956-12-0730 min
Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.
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Episode 15: The Swordsman
1956-12-1430 min
Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.
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Episode 16: The Return of the Alcibiade
1956-12-2130 min
Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.
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Episode 17: Monsieur Francois
1956-12-2830 min
Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.
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Episode 18: A Horse for Old Hickory
1957-01-0430 min
Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.
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Episode 19: The Beggar of New Orleans
1957-01-1130 min
Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.
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Episode 20: Osceola
1957-01-1830 min
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.
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Episode 21: Master of Arms
1957-01-2530 min
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.
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Episode 22: Convoy Gold
1957-02-0130 min
Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.
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Episode 23: Spanish Intrigue
1957-02-0830 min
Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.
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Episode 24: Bayou Tontine
1957-02-1530 min
Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.
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Episode 25: German George
1957-02-2230 min
Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.
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Episode 26: An Eye for an Eye
1957-03-0130 min
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.
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Episode 27: The Captain's Chimp
1957-03-0830 min
Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.
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Episode 28: Jackson Assassination
1957-03-1530 min
Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.
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Episode 29: Rezin Bowie, Gambler
1957-03-2230 min
Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.
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Episode 30: Thieves' Market
1957-03-2930 min
When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.
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Episode 31: The Pearl and the Crown
1957-04-0530 min
After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.
Episode 32: The General's Disgrace
1957-04-1230 min
Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.
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Episode 33: The Lottery
1957-04-1930 min
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.
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Episode 34: The Intruder
1957-04-2630 min
Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.
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Episode 35: Country Cousin
1957-05-0330 min
Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.
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Episode 36: The Bound Girl
1957-05-1030 min
Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.
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Episode 37: Bounty Hunter
1957-05-1730 min
When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.
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Episode 38: Gone to Texas
1957-05-2430 min
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.
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