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.
Guest Stars:
Peggy McCay, Peter Whitney, Henry Brandon, Lyn Osborn
A wily Scotsman gets the better of Bowie on an important real estate deal.
Guest Stars:
Napoleon Whiting, Lurene Tuttle
A indentured servant, whose contract is purchased by Bowie, deludes an innkeeper that he is the master and Bowie the servant.
Guest Stars:
Val Dufour, Lorna Thayer, Sean McClory, Ben Welden, John Warburton
Bowie solicits the help of a former pickpocket and a former horse thief to defeat a gang of counterfeiters.
Guest Stars:
Gordon Jones, Nick Dennis, Hank Worden
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.
Guest Stars:
S. John Launer
Bowie risks his life to recover a stolen shipment of desperately needed smallpox vaccine.
Guest Stars:
Florence Marly, Ben Wright, Scatman Crothers
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.
Guest Stars:
Ellen Corby, Elizabeth Patterson, Anthony Eustrel
Recovering from a gunshot wound in a fancy mansion, Bowie is asked by a young woman not to identify the person who shot him.
Guest Stars:
Helen Kleeb, Louis Mercier
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.
Guest Stars:
Edwin Jerome
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.
Guest Stars:
June Carter Cash, Regis Toomey, Malcolm Atterbury
Bowie becomes suspicious when an elderly man dies abruptly on the night of his wedding.
Guest Stars:
Michael Pate, Amzie Strickland, Lloyd Corrigan
Bowie uncovers a plot to increase the value of some land upriver by moving the state capital there.
Guest Stars:
Eugene Jackson, Peter Hansen, Addison Richards, Myron Healey, William Allyn
In order to hide from a waterfront gang, Bowie has to pretend to be a prospective bridegroom at a French home.
Guest Stars:
Alan Reed, Henry Kulky, Charles Meredith, Hilda Plowright
Inside a doll he bought as a birthday gift, Bowie finds a clue to a homicide plot.
Guest Stars:
Abraham Sofaer, Lawrence Dobkin
Bowie and his brother's fiancee are duped by swindlers claiming that a relative has been unjustly imprisoned in Mexico.
Guest Stars:
June Carter Cash, Margo
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.
Guest Stars:
Whit Bissell
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.
Guest Stars:
Peggy McCay, Chubby Johnson, Mike Steen
When Jim Bowie is robbed, he learns that the man who robbed him is also wanted by an Indian tribe for murder.
Guest Stars:
Morey Amsterdam, Roberto Contreras, Robert Warwick, Rose Marie
An assassin after Bowie kills an innocent man instead, but that doesn't stop him.
Guest Stars:
Charles Halton, Torben Meyer, Percy Helton, Charles Meredith, William Schallert
Bowie tracks down an outlaw gang when he finds out that one of them is using his name.
Guest Stars:
Donald Randolph, Joyce Compton, Lawrence Dobkin
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.
Guest Stars:
Karl Swenson, Peter Hansen, Lyle Latell, Lisa Montell
Bowie learns that foul play may be attempted at a concert arranged by his friend at the newspaper for composer John Howard Payne.
Guest Stars:
Neil Hamilton, Kem Dibbs, Lomax Study, William Schallert
Now in Texas, Bowie encounters famous scout Deaf Smith while on the trail of an outlaw gang.
Guest Stars:
Edgar Buchanan, Vic Perrin
While negotiating with Mexican government officials to build a cotton mill in Texas, Bowie is attracted to the daughter of one of them.
Guest Stars:
Fred Graham, Henry Rowland, Sidney Blackmer, Eugenia Paul, Eugene Iglesias
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.
Guest Stars:
Felix Locher, Sidney Blackmer
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.
Guest Stars:
Robert Ellenstein, Claude Akins, Lyn Osborn
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.
Guest Stars:
Robert Easton, William Benedict, Olin Howland
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.
Guest Stars:
Robin Hughes, Forrest Lewis, Kay E. Kuter
Bowie almost loses the friendship of the Mexican governor of Texas when an old friend turns out to be a horse thief.
Guest Stars:
Chuck Connors, Sidney Blackmer, Eugenia Paul, Belle Mitchell
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.
Guest Stars:
Chuck Connors, Julian Rivero
When young Jefferson Davis wants to join Bowie in his search for the lost mine, his older brother objects and challenges Bowie to a duel.
Guest Stars:
Charles MacArthur, Forrest Lewis
Looking for an investment for his mother, Bowie considers purchasing artwork instead of another plantation.
Guest Stars:
Carey Loftin, Louis Mercier, Harry Bartell, Richard Reeves, Dan Seymour
At the President's urgent request, Bowie guides a doctor to a Choctaw village to cure a sick boy, only to discover that the doctor is an inexperienced youth fresh out of medical school.
Guest Stars:
Doug McClure, Grandon Rhodes, Trevor Bardette, Charles Stevens, Brett Halsey
Bowie decides to run for Congress from Louisiana, and meets another frontiersman who did the same thing from Tennessee, Davy Crockett.
Guest Stars:
George Dunn, Tom Brown
In Natchez, Bowie tries to find a new home for an infant who was the sole survivor of an Indian attack, but has trouble with the sheriff.
Guest Stars:
James Westerfield, Lorna Thayer, Linda Watkins
Bowie tries to find out what happened to his cousin's bride, who disappeared on her wedding day after being seen with a hypnotist.
Owed a lot of money by a man who has no cash, Bowie makes him an offer for his land in New Orleans, and we learn the origin of some of the street names there.
Guest Stars:
Romney Brent, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Wendell Holmes