There aren't many shows that can get away successfully with a name change during its initial airing, but the classic Western series Bonanza was certainly one of them. Following the adventures of Ben ...

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 ...

Bonanza was not only the longest-running TV western on NBC, but it was also the second longest-running western on U.S ...

Long before contemporary television audiences were roped into the drama of such modern-day Westerns as Longmire and Yellowstone, Ben Cartwright and his sons were riding into homes every week via the ...

Set in the 1860s, Bonanza follows the adventures of the Cartwrights, owners of the Ponderosa, a thousand-square-mile ranch on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe. (The ranch inspired an amusement park of ...

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 ...

Historians say that today’s East Valley was mostly just barren desert during the whole “Wild West” era. But don’t tell that to the hundreds of wannabe cowboys and cowgirls who flock to Mesa every year ...