Bonanza followed the Cartwright family of ranchers who lived near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in the mid-1800s. Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) was the patriarch, a three-time widower with a son from each ...

Long before Yellowstone or the Dutton Ranch were concepts in Taylor Sheridan's mind—in fact, long before he was even born—there was the Cartwright family and the Ponderosa Ranch on Bonanza. And ...

When it comes to television Westerns, Bonanza truly defined an era. The series ran on NBC from 1959 to 1973, making it the second longest-running Western on American network television (after Gunsmoke ...

Set in the Nevada frontier, ‘Bonanza’ quickly became a television staple, running for an impressive 14 seasons Tereza Shkurtaj is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working for PEOPLE since ...

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NBC’s Bonanza was one of the longest-running Westerns. With 14 seasons and 440 episodes aired, fans remember the Cartwrights well — and many viewers also remember that for 11 of those 14 seasons, the ...

Long before Yellowstone or the Dutton Ranch were concepts in Taylor Sheridan‘s mind-in fact, long before he was even born-there was the Cartwright family and the Ponderosa Ranch on Bonanza. And ...