The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Season 1 Episode 5 - Trapline
Jim Bowie smashes a fur monopoly and makes open bidding available for Louisiana trappers.
Subtitles: English
Directed by:Lewis R. FosterGeorge ArchainbaudAnton Leader
Season 1
S01:E01 - The Birth of the Blade
Jim Bowie encounters a bear and must flee for his life, the event which inspired the first Bowie knife to be made.
S01:E02 - The Squatter
Jim Bowie gives an arrogant Southern belle a lesson in manners and wins her sympathy for an impoverished immigrant family.
S01:E03 - The Adventure With Audubon
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.
S01:E04 - Deputy Sheriff
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.
S01:E05 - Trapline
Jim Bowie smashes a fur monopoly and makes open bidding available for Louisiana trappers.
S01:E06 - Broomstick Wedding
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.?
S01:E07 - Natchez Trace
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.
S01:E08 - Jim Bowie Comes Home
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.
S01:E09 - The Ghost of Jean Battoo
Bowie breaks up a plot by Louisiana racketeers to extort money from superstitious Cajun farmers.
S01:E10 - The Secessionist
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.
S01:E11 - Land Jumpers
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.
S01:E12 - The Select Females
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.
S01:E13 - Jim Bowie and His Slave
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.
S01:E14 - Outlaw Kingdom
Jim Bowie loses a fortune in trade goods to river pirates and almost loses his life in recovering them.
S01:E15 - The Swordsman
Jim Bowie has a fling in New Orleans? high society, climaxing in a duel with a count over a glamorous aristocrat whom Bowie fancies.
S01:E16 - The Return of the Alcibiade
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.
S01:E17 - Monsieur Francois
Jim Bowie teaches a 10-year-old French Marquis a lesson in Americanism.
S01:E18 - A Horse for Old Hickory
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.
S01:E19 - The Beggar of New Orleans
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.
S01:E20 - Osceola
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.
S01:E21 - Master at Arms
Bowie buys a lottery ticket from Jean Dubois, a former champion swordsman, who is trying to raise money for his daughter's dowry.
S01:E22 - Convoy Gold
With the cooperation of the United States Army, Bowie sets out to carry half a million dollars in gold from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, but before he reaches his destination he runs into trouble.
S01:E23 - Spanish Intrigue
Jim Bowie earns monetary profit and helps Simon Bolivar liberate Latin America from Spain.
S01:E24 - Bayou Tontite
Jim Bowie learns the evil effects of a ?tontite? under which a large fund goes to the last surviving child of a group who provide the capital.
S01:E25 - German George
Jim Bowie breaks up a crooked casino in New Orleans when his partner gambles away mutual funds.
S01:E26 - An Eye for an Eye
Jim Bowie finds himself in the middle of a dispute between American settlers and Cherokee Indians when he seeks help in driving a herd of cattle home from Texas.
S01:E27 - The Captain's Chimp
When Captain Paolo is kidnapped from his hotel room, his frightened chimpanzee ends up in Bowie's room. Bowie enlists reporter Tebbs and the captain's daughter in a plan to expose the kidnappers.
S01:E28 - Jackson's Assassination
Jim is tricked into aiding a plot to assassinate President Jackson.
S01:E29 - Rezin Bowie, Gambler
When Jim Bowie?s brother, Rezin, takes a try at being a professional gambler, Jim sets out to frame Rezin into a big loss at the hands of some real gamblers.
S01:E30 - Thieves' Market
Jim Bowie and his 10-year old friend Francois become embroiled in the New Orleans underworld when Francois buys a valuable string of rubies for his aunt at the Thieves Market.
S01:E32 - The General's Disgrace
Jim Bowie suspects an inside leak when, despite U.S. Army protection, he becomes the victim of highwaymen and finds out the General?s son is involved with the holdups.
S01:E33 - The Lottery
Jim Bowie almost becomes party to a scheme to cheat the generous supporters of a New Orleans orphanage when he engages several men to organize a lottery to raise funds for the orphanage.
S01:E34 - The Intruder
Bowie and his young friend Francois become involved with a gang of river vandals when the river men send Spud to burglarize the home of Francois and his aunt.
S01:E35 - Country Cousin
Jim Bowie aids the underdog in a waterfront brawl and finds he is a relative. When he lets his newfound cousin in on a business deal and it turns out to be a swindle, he finds he, too, is a victim.
S01:E36 - The Bound Girl
Jim Bowie unravels a strange story of love and loyalty, and his sympathies are torn when he suspects the motives of a man who has brought a girl from Ireland under an indenture of servitude.
S01:E37 - The Bounty Hunter
Jim Bowie?s friend Justinian Tebbs is mistaken for a fugitive from justice. The error leads to a chase. Neither Jim nor Justy knows that the fugitive is a real killer with the U.S. Army after him.
S01:E38 - Gone to Texas
When a renegade American, now a Mexican Army officer, plots to kill Bowie because he?s a friend of Sam Houston, Bowie is detained on pretext of lacking a passport to Texas.
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