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 ...

The hit Western series Bonanza ran for 14 seasons, but one of the main actors, Pernell Roberts, left abruptly. What happened ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opening with one of the most recognizable themes in television history, Bonanza followed the lives and exploits of thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright and his sons Adam, Eric “Hoss” and Little Joe ...

Michael Landon said fans thought the Cartwright men in 'Bonanza' were gay because all of the women kept getting removed from the show. Lorne Greene played Ben Cartwright, and Ben had three wives ...

For millions of fans, Lorne Greene will forever be remembered as Bonanza‘s wise and steady Ben Cartwright. As the patriarch of the Cartwright family for 14 seasons, he brought love and authority to ...

Many fans know Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright on Bonanza, but did you know that he also had a successful music career? So successful that he once compared himself to the King, Elvis Presley. Greene’s ...