Greedy opportunist Mark Burdette and his accomplice Early Thorne stir up trouble between the Paiute ...

John Pennington and his crew want to mine the Ponderosa land by hydraulic means. Ben is totally agai...

Trader Mike Wilson attempts to escape punishment by the Paiute Indians after mistreating two of thei...

Samuel Clemens arrives in Virginia City to write for the Territorial Enterprise at the same time a c...

Little Joe is infatuated wih saloon owner Julia Bulette, whom he imagines is like his late mother. ...

Adam defends the mining claim of Annie O' Toole in a court presided over by Judge Ben Cartwright. A...

Adam and Hoss assist a German engineer in developing the concept of "square set timbering" in the mi...

In a flashback, the legendary prospector arrives on the Ponderosa and participates in the founding o...

Virginia City is visited by actress Adah Issacs Menken, who happens to be an old acquaintance of Ben...

Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing land dispute for a number of years, over a smal...

Adam and Joe reluctantly join a group of vengeful townsmen, who are out to lynch the three men who s...

In a variation of "High Noon", Ben and Hoss must face a gang of outlaws practically all alone when m...

This episode begins with Adam defending the honor of Sue Ellen Terry in a duel. No one gets shot be...

Hoss and Joe come across a pregnant Indian woman while hunting bighorn sheep and must deliver her ba...

Ben sends Hoss and Joe to Monterey to purchase an expensive seed bull. The first of Blocker and Lan...

Because she is related to criminals, a young woman is ostracized by everyone but the the Cartwrights...

As the Civil War approaches, Adam and Joe clash over which side to support. The situation is compli...

In the first all-out comic episode of the series, Hoss and Joe travel to Kiowa Flats, Texas, where t...

The Cartwrights encounter racial bigotry in Virginia City and end up protecting a Chinese boy from m...

In "The Spanish Grant", a young bargirl, Rosita Morales is pretending to be a Spanish noblewoman nam...

A shiftless sheepherder, Jeb Drummond, encroaches his herd of sheep on the Ponderosa and refuses to ...

When a tough U.S. Marshal from California arrests a Ponderosa hand, Dave Walker, for murder, Adam an...

Nevada Territory is awaiting statehood, and Ben considers running for governor until he learns he is...

After Adam is bushwhacked by three army deserters, Ben tracks them down, and tackles the brutal Capt...

A restaurant owner whom Ben and Adam have confronted over stolen Ponderosa beef ends up dead one nig...

Adam takes Ben's friends, Lord Marion Dunsworth and Lady Beatrice, on a hunting expedition, and they...

In this comic episode, the first to take place far from the ranch, Ben, Hoss, and Joe deliver a herd...

Len Keith, a miner, wants to purchase some land adjacent to the Ponderosa from rancher Andy McKaren....

Hoss takes Billy Allen, the young son of a convicted felon under his wing, then is forced to kill hi...

Joe falls in love with Tirza, an undeniably strange gypsy girl who says she is cursed and never does...

Virginia City is plagued by organized crime, Sam Bryant and his gang. One of his men, Farmer Perkin...