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Comes a horse: When hard times come to Eagle Station many of the ranchers want to give up and sell out, but after working together to rescue a wild horse many of them decide to give it one more try. The lesser of two evils: Adam Cartwright has fallen in love with Isabella, when she goes back to Mexico to visit a childhood sweetheart, Adam has to decide whether to trust his instincts in waiting to ask her to marry him.

Six episodes of one of television's long-running westerns. Bonanza was the archetype of the "property" western that dominated the genre during the 60's. Set in Virginia City, Nevada, it told the story of the Cartwrights, owners of a nearly 600,000 acre ranch, The Ponderosa (named after the ponderosa pines growing there).

"Set in Nevada, in the 1860s, Bonanza chronicled the adventures of the Cartwright family who owned a large ranch: the Ponderosa. In The avenger, Ben and Adam are in the Virginia City jail waiting to be hanged. Last minute bids by Joe and Hoss to get them out are hindered by another rancher who wants to see Ben dead. A stranger arrives in town looking for his father's murderer, but is he a help or a hinderance in Joe and Hoss's quest to set their father...

Episodes of the television show Bonanza, which focused on Ben Cartwright, owner of a the Ponderosa ranch in Virgina City, Nevada, and his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe.

Bonanza followed the High-Sierra adventures of the Cartwright family: wise patriarch Ben Cartwright and his three dissimilar sons, Adam, Hoss and 'Little Joe' as they attempt to maintain and operate their sprawling timberland ranch, the Ponderosa, in an era of violence and lawlessness in mid-1800s Nevada.

"Set in Virginia City, Nevada in the 1860s, the series chronicles the adventures of Ben Cartwright, owner of the Ponderosa Ranch, and his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe. Each exciting episode finds the Cartwrights coping with western-style moral issues of good and evil, right and wrong. As with all strong families, there is a great love and trust between them and they find time for humor in almost every situation." --

A western about rancher Ben Cartwright and his three sons, Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, and their sprawling spread, the Ponderosa.

Follow the High-Sierra adventures of the Cartwright family, wise patriarch Ben Cartwright and his three dissimilar sons, Adam, Hoss and 'Little Joe.' The Cartwright's attempt to maintain and operate their sprawling timberland ranch, the Ponderosa, in an era of violence and lawlessness in mid-1800's Nevada.