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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon as Ben, Adam, Hoss, and Joe Cartwright, riding horses and looking at the sky in Bonanza. Image via NBC When it comes to classic television ...