The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Season 2 (38 Episodes)

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The adventures of frontier hero Jim Bowie are brought to life in this popular children's television series.

In the Louisiana Territory around 1830, wealthy planter Jim Bowie encounters many famous people in New Orleans or the backwoods, relying for protection on the knife he supposedly invented after his regular one broke in a fight with a grizzly bear.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 Epitaph for an Indian

1. Epitaph for an Indian

Aired: Sep 6, 1957

Jim's Indian friend has been killed, and when Jim goes to his home to deliver...

Episode 3 The Irishman

3. The Irishman

Aired: Sep 20, 1957

Jim purchases the contract of an indentured servant, but when they stop at an...

Episode 4 Counterfeit Dixie

4. Counterfeit Dixie

Aired: Sep 27, 1957

In order to break up a gang of counterfeiters, Jim asks for help from a forme...

Episode 5 Bullet Metal

5. Bullet Metal

Aired: Oct 4, 1957

Jim is interested in buying a lead mine, but runs into a problem: the owner i...

Episode 6 The Quarantine

6. The Quarantine

Aired: Oct 11, 1957

A desperately needed shipment of smallpox vaccine is stolen, and Jim risks hi...

Episode 7 A Fortune for Madame

7. A Fortune for Madame

Aired: Oct 18, 1957

Jim is interested in buying some land, but he discovers that the owners have ...

Episode 8 House Divided

8. House Divided

Aired: Oct 25, 1957

Jim gets shot, and finds himself recovering from his wound in the mansion of ...

Episode 9 The Whip

9. The Whip

Aired: Nov 1, 1957

During negotiations to purchase cotton, Bowie discovers that much of the cott...

Episode 11 Charivari

11. Charivari

Aired: Nov 15, 1957

Jim's suspicions are aroused when an elderly friend dies suddenly on his wedd...

Episode 12 Hare and Tortoise

12. Hare and Tortoise

Aired: Nov 22, 1957

Jim discovers a scheme to enrich the owners of a piece of land by getting the...

Episode 13 The Bridegroom

13. The Bridegroom

Aired: Nov 29, 1957

To try to escape from a pursuing gang of waterfront toughs, Bowie pretends to...

Episode 14 The Alligator

14. The Alligator

Aired: Dec 6, 1957

Bowie investigates the death of a woman who has been frightened to death by a...

Episode 15 Country Girl

15. Country Girl

Aired: Dec 13, 1957

Bowie and Rachel are asked separately to lend bribe money to brother and sist...

Episode 16 Mexican Adventure

16. Mexican Adventure

Aired: Dec 20, 1957

Bowie and Jean Lafitte assist an American diplomat who is being held by Mexic...

Episode 17 Silk Purse

17. Silk Purse

Aired: Dec 27, 1957

Bowie unexpectedly wins the services of an unrefined young woman from her fat...

Episode 18 Choctaw Honor

18. Choctaw Honor

Aired: Jan 3, 1958

Bowie helps a Choctaw Indian who has been accused by the Choctaw tribe of the...

Episode 20 Pirate on Horseback

20. Pirate on Horseback

Aired: Jan 17, 1958

In search of a stolen necklace, Bowie infiltrates a criminal brotherhood whic...

Episode 21 Curfew Cannon

21. Curfew Cannon

Aired: Jan 24, 1958

A rich French family entices the Bowie brothers to be their partners in a new...

Episode 22 Home Sweet Home

22. Home Sweet Home

Aired: Jan 31, 1958

Bowie trusts a gambler to sell tickets to a benefit for actor/songwriter John...

Episode 23 Deaf Smith

23. Deaf Smith

Aired: Feb 7, 1958

Deaf Smith intervenes when Bowie is attacked by bandits.

Episode 24 Ursula

24. Ursula

Aired: Feb 14, 1958

While in San Antonio on business, Bowie accidentally meets his future wife, U...

Episode 25 Apache Silver

25. Apache Silver

Aired: Feb 21, 1958

While in San Antonio, Bowie obtains a map to a lost Spanish silver mine in Ap...

Episode 27 Up the Creek

27. Up the Creek

Aired: Mar 7, 1958

A family of backwoods grifters capture Bowie and convince him to pay them a d...

Episode 28 The Lion's Cub

28. The Lion's Cub

Aired: Mar 14, 1958

Bowie thinks he's pulling a joke on an Englishman who makes an offer to buy h...

Episode 29 Horse Thief

29. Horse Thief

Aired: Mar 21, 1958

Bowie purchases a horse from an old friend for Ursula, the daughter of his bu...

Episode 30 Jim Bowie, Apache

30. Jim Bowie, Apache

Aired: Mar 28, 1958

Bowie joins the Lipan Apache tribe. He helps them in their war with the Coman...

Episode 31 The Brothers

31. The Brothers

Aired: Apr 4, 1958

Bowie returns to Louisiana to organize an expedition to rediscover and develo...

Episode 32 Patron of the Art

32. Patron of the Art

Aired: Apr 11, 1958

A plantation owner will sell his plantation to Bowie but the price is a rare ...

Episode 33 Bad Medicine

33. Bad Medicine

Aired: Apr 18, 1958

Federal government tells Choctaw tribes to move from Mississippi to Arkansas....

Episode 34 A Night in Tennessee

34. A Night in Tennessee

Aired: Apr 25, 1958

While visiting Tennessee, local politicians enlist Bowie's help in defeating ...

Episode 35 Bowie's Baby

35. Bowie's Baby

Aired: May 2, 1958

On the trail, Bowie rescues a sole surviving baby from a burning covered wago...

Episode 36 The Cave

36. The Cave

Aired: May 9, 1958

Bowie tracks a seemingly delusional young bride who is kidnapped following he...

Episode 37 Man on the Street

37. Man on the Street

Aired: May 16, 1958

A Creole aristocrat, with substantial land holdings in New Orleans, loses hea...

Episode 38 The Puma

38. The Puma

Aired: May 23, 1958

Reporter Tebbs asks Jess Miller to travel to San Antonio and retrieve $7,000 ...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: ABC

Production Country: United States

Genres:Adventure, Western

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