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."