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Ben Cartwright is the patriarch of an all-male Nevada ranching family. Set during and after the Civil War, "Bonanza" is the story of life on the family's thousand-acre spread, known as the Ponderosa, near Virginia City. Ben has his three sons, each with a different (and deceased) mother. Serious eldest son Adam hopes to follow in his father's footsteps; middle son Hoss is a gentle giant -- physically strong, but sometimes naive; and youngest son Little Joe is the most impetuous and romantic of the offspring.
S1, EP28 "San Francisco"
Shortly after the Ponderosa cattle herd arrives in San Francisco at the hands of Hoss, Joe and Ben, two of their traildrivers are shanghaied and destined for Hong Kong.
S1, EP29 "Bitter Water"
When a neighbor agrees to sell his property, the Cartwrights fear the loss of water rights for their cattle.
S1, EP30 "Feet of Clay"
The Cartwrights befriend a boy whose father has been sent to jail and whose mother has recently died.
S2, EP6 "Denver McKee"
The Cartwrights' neighbor (Franchot Tone), a former soldier and lawman, seeks security for his daughter.
S3, EP27 "The Gamble"
A sheriff, his deputy and a livery stable owner of a distant town plot to rob the Cartwrights of $30,000.
S3, EP26 "Look to the Stars"
Ben helps future Nobel Prize-winner Albert Abraham Michelson obtain an education after being expelled from school as a troublemaker.
