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Pictures taken seconds before disaster

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I Was a Teenage Werewolf | 1957

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, DeForest Kelley guest stars in "The Honor of Cochise," episode 3 of the third season of Bonanza (original air date Oct 8, 1961).

Kelley plays Captain Moss Johnson, an Army officer who stumbles into the Cartwrights' camp claiming to be the sole survivor of a battle with the Apache. The Apache catch up with him, take Adam Cartwright prisoner, and demand Johnson be turned over in exchange for his release. When Ben Cartwright goes to parley with Cochise, the Apache leader, he is told that Johnson killed an entire Apache settlement - including women and children - with a "peace offering" of poisoned food.

Johnson claims he was following orders, but when his commanding officer arrives he is placed under arrest, which satisfies Cochise. The Army will neither confirm nor deny Johnson's claim, and we're left to wonder what the whole truth is.

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The cast of the television series 'Bonanza' attend an award ceremony, circa 1960.

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Joe Cartwright in Bonanza S10E26 "The Running Man"

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𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒛𝒂 is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on U.S. network television (behind CBS's 𝑮𝒖𝒏𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒌𝒆).

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.

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Michael Landon - I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

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Little Joe Cartwright if he had access to snapchat in the 1860's

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 If I had a remembrance book, I would mark down how it was when we left our little house in the big woods to go west to Indian Territory. We had to go, Pa said, because so many people had come to live in the big woods, there wasn't enough game anymore for him to hunt and he feared we might go hungry. Ma said we might never again see Grandma and Grandpa, or Aunt Docia and Aunt Ruby and Uncle George. Though it made me sad, I still thought it a fine thing to go where there had never been a road before. We'd go where the land was more bountiful, he said, and he sold our house and land and cow, and packed whatever would fit in the wagon. I was glad Pa took his fiddle, for it makes a joysome sound. Mary was afraid to go, but I knew nothing bad could happen as long as we had Pa and Jack. Jack is my best and truest friend and Pa says there has never been a better watchdog. I knew there would be rivers to cross and hills to climb, and I was glad, for this is a fair land and I rejoiced that I would see it.

—Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie, "Pilot"

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Bonanza 4x10

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Today in the Department of Before They Were Star Trek Stars, Majel Barrett guest stars in "Three Brides for Hoss," episode 22 of the seventh season of Bonanza (original air date February 20, 1966). Barrett plays Annie Slocum, the first of three mail-order brides who show up at the Ponderosa claiming to be engaged to Hoss Cartwright. They were really sent for by Hoss's friend, a widower who wants a mother for his high-strung daughter. Hijnks ensue, but in the end Annie bonds with the daughter and decides to marry the widower. The other two brides marry Annie's backwoods brothers, and the Cartwrights' bachelorhood survives another week.

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check your local listings

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Bonanza (3.28 The Crucible, 1962).

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50 Years of the Ingalls Family ❤️