The Adventures Of Jim Bowie: The Complete Collection

Jim Bowie Complete Collection

From 1956 to 1958, families across America were tuned into ABC on Fridays nights for "The Adventures Of Jim Bowie", based on the real-life American folk hero and western frontiersman who invented the famous bowie knife after an attack by a fierce grizzly bear in which his rifle jammed at a critical moment in the fight. Now you can own all 76 episodes of this iconic television series - digitally remastered for unparalleled picture and audio quality - in this special-edition, 10-DVD collector's set. Against the backdrop of 1830s French-American New Orleans and backwoods Louisiana territory, Scott Forbes - whose prolific and stellar career in television spanned four decades - stars as wealthy, young planter Jim Bowie. Wielding a knife instead of a gun, Bowie forges the frontier, diligently pursues lawbreakers and battles social injustice. A rugged adventurer, Bowie crosses paths with such famous and infamous historical figures as pirate and privateer Jean Lafitte; near-legendary bandit John Murrell; seventh U.S. president Andrew Jackson; celebrated folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician Davy Crockett; colorful and controversial Sam Houston; naturalist painter John James Audubon; missionary, pioneer and conservationist Johnny Appleseed; actor, playwright and songwriter John Howard Payne; entrepreneur and philanthropist John McDonogh; physician, botanist and American statesman Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first U.S. minister to Mexico; and Juan Martin De Veramendi, vice-governor of Texas (then part of Mexico). Presented in Black & White.