Bonanza is second-longest-running western TV series in the United States, only behind Gunsmoke. The show follows the story of the Cartwright family, who lives in a Virginia City, Nevada and they live ...

Dan Blocker, who played Hoss on 'Bonanza,' had an impressive net worth when he died tragically young, shocking his fans and co-stars. At the time of his untimely passing, Dan Blocker had a net worth ...

Today -- May 13, 2002, -- marks the 30th year since the passing of Dan Blocker (Hoss Cartwright) of "Bonanza." Blocker was literally the biggest star of the Cartwright clan, at 6-foot-four and 275 ...

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 ...

Q. Was Dan Blocker always called Hoss on Bonanza? A. Each of Ben Cartwright’s three sons had a different mother and in the course of the series, the story of each of the three marriages was told. In ...

Editor's Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about actor Dan Blocker ...

When Bonanza first hit TV screens in 1959, it didn’t just ride into the Western genre – it helped define it. The show galloped through 14 successful seasons on NBC, captivating audiences with the ...

Michael Landon, Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker in Bonanza, one of the TV series Collins worked on Richard Collins, a writer and producer who was blacklisted during the 1940s communist witch-hunts and ...