• Birth of the Blade
• The Squatter
• An Adventure with...
• Deputy Sheriff
• Trapline
• Broomstick Wedding
• Natchez Trace
• Jim Bowie Comes Home
• The Ghost of Jean...
• The Secessionists
• Land Jumpers
• The Select Females
• Jim Bowie's Slave
• The Outlaw Kingdom
• The Swordsman
• Return of the...
• Monsieur Francois
• Osceola
• Jackson's...
• Gone to Texas

The Adventures of Jim Bowie - Birth of the Blade

Season 1, Episode 1
Original Airdate: Sep 07, 1956

Director: Lewis R. Foster
Cast: Scott Forbes
Guests: Walter Sande, Helen Wallace, Robert Foulke, Francis McDonald
Runtime: 26 min.

After an almost fatal encounter with a bear, Jim Bowie asks a blacksmith to forge a knife of his own design. It became known as the Bowie knife.

Trivia: Director Lewis R. Foster won the Best Director Academy Award for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Robert Foulke (Yancy) guest starred in 13 episodes of the Bonanza TV series, often playing a deputy sheriff.