

The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Season 2
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Network: ABC
Season aired: 1957-09-06
Seasons
Overview
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.
Episodes ยท 38
Epitaph for an Indian
When Bowie goes to his dead Indian friend's home town to deliver the news to his father, he finds that the father has just been shot.
Flowers for McDonough
A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.
The Irishman
A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.
Counterfeit Dixie
Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.
Bullet Metal
Bowie tries to purchase a lead mine, but the pacifist owner refuses to sell it to him if the metal will be used to make bullets.
Quarantine
Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.
A Fortune for Madame
When Bowie finds that he cannot purchase some land because the owners have just been swindled out of it, he decides to help them recover it.
House Divided
Recovering from a gunshot wound in a fancy mansion, Bowie is asked by a young woman not to identify the person who shot him.
The Whip
While on his way to inform the authorities of a plot to misuse the labor of prisoners, Bowie is trapped in a warehouse and attacked by a whip-wielding stranger.
Pearls of Talimeco
When Bowie and an Indian friend make up a story to send an annoying acquaintance on a wild goose chase, it comes back to haunt them.
Charivari
Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.
Hare and Tortoise
Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.
The Bridegroom
In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.
The Alligator
Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.
Country Girl
Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.
Mexican Adventure
Bowie and his pirate friend Jean Lafitte, attempting to rescue a U.S. ambassador who has been captured by revolutionary forces in Mexico, take refuge in an inn at Christmastime.
Silk Purse
When a hillbilly puts up his daughter as a stake in a poker game, Bowie goes along with the idea to teach him a lesson, and then decides to send her to a finishing school to become a lady.
Choctaw Honor
When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.
Close Shave
An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.
Pirate on Horseback
Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.
Curfew Cannon
When Bowie and his brother learn that the bank they own in New Orleans is being robbed, they try to keep the thieves from getting away by using the city's signaling cannon.
Home Sweet Home
Bowie learns that foul play may be attempted at a concert arranged by his friend at the newspaper for composer John Howard Payne.
Deaf Smith
Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.

Ursula
While negotiating with Mexican government officials to build a cotton mill in Texas, Bowie is attracted to the daughter of one of them.
Apache Silver
Bowie gets a lead on the location of the lost silver mine of the Apaches, but both hostile Apaches and Mexican officials make it difficult for him to follow it up.
A Grave for Jim Bowie
Bowie comes to the aid of naturalist Johnny Appleseed, who has been captured by criminals who think that the riches in the ground he talks about are buried treasure.
Up the Creek
When Bowie solicits help from his cousin after being swindled by a group of good-natured hillbillies, he almosts gets the poor fellow married to one of them.
The Lion's Cub
Bowie manages to get back across the border into Texas by signing on as an Englishman's valet, but then the pair are attacked by both outlaws and Comanches.
Horse Thief
Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.
Jim Bowie, Apache
Bowie becomes the blood brother of an Apache tribe whom he believes know the location of the lost silver mine he has been searching for, but discovers that his old friend has done the same thing with a tribe of Comanches who also know the secret.







