The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Season 1 Episode 5 - Trapline

1956 · 22 min

TV-PG

Western · Adventure

Jim Bowie smashes a fur monopoly and makes open bidding available for Louisiana trappers.

Subtitles: English

Starring:Scott Forbes William Schallert John Laing

Directed by:Lewis R. Foster George Archainbaud Anton Leader

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.