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How Jim Bowie came to invent his famous Bowie knife

Bowie tries to talk a neighbor out of throwing a couple of penniless German squatters off her land.

Bowie assists legendary painter/naturalist John James Audubon avoid French forces that are hunting for him.

Volunteering as a temporary deputy to guard a prisoner, Bowie comes to believe that the young man may be innocent.

A fur company is apparently trying to keep the Cajun fur trappers in line by killing anyone who trades with an independent dealer - like Jim Bowie.

A trade of horses leads to an angry father mistaking Bowie for his neighbor, the potential object of a shotgun wedding.

A group of travelers ask Bowie for help against a rumored highwayman on the trail to Natchez.

On returning from a trip, Bowie finds that the town near his home has been taken over by a gang of young hoodlums.

Bowie encounters a group of farmers who are being duped into paying protection money to an old woman against the ghost of a famous Louisiana pirate.

Bowie finds that a friend of his has been asked by President Andrew Jackson to try to talk a group of French planters out of seceding from the Union.

Just when Jim and his brother try to sell a large tract of land, a Frenchman shows up claiming to have the proper title to the property, which is verified by a local judge.

Bowie encounters the headmistress of a school for young ladies, and she tells him that one of her students has been kidnapped.

Bowie comes to the aid of a former slave who he had freed, but who has been captured and is being sold again at a slave auction.

Bowie goes after a gang of river pirates who have stolen his cargo.

Bowie runs into trouble when an attractive woman in New Orleans, where he has gone to purchase an estate, turns his head.

Bowie goes after the thief who stole an expensive Christmas gift he bought for his mother.

Bowie comes to the aid of a French boy and his aunt, newly arrived in New Orleans, who are the victims of confidence tricksters.

Bidding for a racehorse to present as a gift to President Jackson, Bowie finds that he is up against Sam Houston.

Bowie tries to help a former champion fencer who has become a street beggar.

Bowie comes to the aid of the native Seminoles, whom the army is trying to move from their traditional home to a tract of less desirable land.

An expert French swordsman sells Bowie a lottery ticket, but then after Bowie wins he decides that the winings should belong to him and comes after Bowie.

Bowie tries to get a gold shipment safely through to New Orleans.

Bowie meets Simon Bolivar, who wants to liberate all of Latin American from the yoke of Spanish rule.

Naturalist Audubon returns to ask Bowie for help in protecting a young girl whose life is in danger after she inherits a fortune.

Bowie goes after the gambler who cheated and then killed Bowie's friend and partner.

Trying to stop an Indian uprising, Bowie only gets into more trouble after telling a native Cherokee princess the story of John Smith and Pocahontas.

Bowie goes after a thief who has trained a chimpanzee to climb up through people's windows.

Bowie is duped into helping a group that is plotting the President's assassination.

Unaware that it is a setup, Jim's brother wins big and decides to become a professional gambler.

When Bowie escorts his young French friend to the notorious thieves' marketplace in New Orleans, they are set upon by - thieves.

After a newspaper prints a poem about him, Bowie confronts the editor, who is later found murdered.

Bowie suspects a connection between recent holdups and the heavy gambling losses of a general's son.

Bowie organizes a lottery to help an orphanage, unaware that the men he has hired plan to fix the drawing so that they will collect the winnings.

Bowie tries to help a young burglar who was caught robbing his friend Francois.

Bowie gets into trouble with his relatives when he cuts his visiting cousin in on a deal that turns out to be a hoax.

Bowie resolves to help an indentured servant girl from Ireland, whose unwilling services have been purchased by a mean widower.

When Bowie and his newspaper friend unwittingly help a fugitive from justice, a bounty hunter pursues them all.