Introducing Jim Bowie, and how he encountered a bear while armed only with a rifle, which misfires and had to flee.

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.

Jim Bowie accepts a temporary appointment as a deputy to protect a prisoner, the son of a French society member, from mob violence.

Jim believes a fur company may be trying to drive him away by killing any Cajun trapper with whom he does business.

A colourful old Louisiana custom almost makes Bowie an involuntary bridegroom, when he is mistake for Rafe Bradford, who tried to escape.