The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Jim Bowie encounters a bear and must flee for his life, the event which inspired the first Bowie knife to be made.

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 John James Audubon as their missing Dauphin ? but he prefers American citizenship. Audubon was world-famous as a painter of birds.

Jim Bowie accepts an 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.?

The Hawk, a highwayman whose boldness and cruelty strike terror into the hearts of all who hear his name, sets out to rob Jim Bowie and his friends.

Jim Bowie returns to Opelousas from a business trip to find the Louisiana town taken over by a gang of tough guys who plan to drive his family out next.

Bowie breaks up a plot by Louisiana racketeers to extort money from superstitious Cajun farmers.

Commissioned by President Andrew Jackson to aid an Army Major sent to foil a plot to withdraw Louisiana from the Union, Jim Bowie is forced to impersonate him when assassins arrive on the scene.

Duprez, the owner of a land grant that gives him the prior title to a large tract that Jim Bowie and his brother have recently sold, is forcibly evicting the buyers, alleging they were defrauded.

Jim Bowie comes to the aid of young ladies of a finishing school and their teacher when he finds himself involved in an elopement ? which turns into an abduction.

Jim discovers that a former slave he had freed has been captured and enslaved again ? and is about to be sold at a slave auction.

Jim Bowie loses a fortune in trade goods to river pirates and almost loses his life in recovering them.

Jim Bowie has a fling in New Orleans? high society, climaxing in a duel with a count over a glamorous aristocrat whom Bowie fancies.

Jim Bowie takes a detour on a trip home from Christmas when a thief steals the gift he was taking to his mother. In pursuit, he lands on a plantation where he is mistaken for someone.

Jim Bowie, Sam Houston (later to be the first governor of Texas) and Jean LaFitte, the pirate, are clashing characters, all in competition in bidding for a racing mare for President Jackson.

When an alms-seeker, who has brought good luck to Jim Bowie, is brutally attacked for no apparent reason, Bowie finds him a haven with the 10-year-old Marquis and his aunt.

Jim Bowie and Osceola, Seminole renegade chief, match knife against lance, with complications for Bowie in trying to get Osceola to compromise with the United States.