The tenth season begins with Joe assisting a solitary mountain woman—a widow and recluse—as she fights a worsening infection and struggles to protect her land from a ruthless lumberman.

While away on business in a small, isolated town, Hoss found himself arrested for murder and robbery. The town’s wealthiest resident had recently died, and the populace seemed less interested in justice than in inheriting his fortune. They …

While driving cattle across Ponderosa land, the Cartwrights and Candy discovered a dying cavalry officer by the trail’s edge. With his final breath, he implored them to aid his commanding officer, Captain Harris. Ascending a rise, they saw …

Ben bore the responsibility for a dangerous captive, receiving scant assistance from the fearful townsfolk who watched as he kept the man from the reach of justice.

The Cartwrights are attempting to sell a prized bull to a rancher, but the rancher’s own son is maneuvering to have him declared mentally unfit, and shows every sign of pursuing this goal with ruthless determination.

The brothers’ constant squabbling escalated until they found themselves supporting opposing candidates in the Virginia City mayoral election. Their fervent involvement fractured the townspeople, igniting a bitter divide that manifested as e…

Folks in Tin Bucket whisper that the Cartwrights and Candy are involved with pilfered cattle hides. As suspicion falls on Joe, Hoss, and Candy—each accused of sundry offenses—it’s Ben who finds himself embroiled in the most significant diff…

A spirited ten-year-old girl named Samantha, whose mother is a cousin of Ben’s and also kin to Hoss and Little Joe, arrived at the Ponderosa. Though she was certainly a challenge to manage, Ben found himself truly tested when her grandfathe…

Years after being taken captive by the Paiute people, a white woman was brought home to her husband. His joy at her return quickly faded when he discovered she had borne a child—a son of Native descent.

The third and concluding chapter of the Rossi family saga finds Georgio Rossi grappling with a stubborn conflict: he simply cannot fathom allowing those Native Americans who’ve departed the reservation to settle upon his property.

Joe and Candy won a stamping mill playing poker, though that they had no idea how to operate it proved to be the smallest of their concerns.

A former army scout, a man named Ben had known years ago, arrived at the Ponderosa and requested his assistance: he asked Ben to claim a cattle ranch for him in the Mexican territory of Mira Flores.

Hop Sing informed Hoss and Candy that they might employ an age-old Chinese method—fingerprinting—to demonstrate Joe’s innocence regarding the charge of murder.

Ben has consented to shelter a government witness involved in a land fraud investigation at the Ponderosa, under the auspices of a protection program. Yet, the witness – one of nine men implicated in numerous crimes related to the case – li…

Hoss offered his assistance to Annie Laurie, a lovely young woman fleeing an abusive marriage. Her husband, a career criminal, was fiercely intent on maintaining control over her and traveling with her across the Southwest, by whatever mean…

The only hope for clearing Candy of the charge of murder rests with the testimony of an Indian man currently sought for stealing horses.

Driven by a sense of obligation, Candy found herself assisting a spirited, elderly British woman in recovering precious jewels lost during a brazen highway robbery.

When Ben permitted a band of Paiute people to make their camp on the Ponderosa, a neighbor took exception and began to harass Hoss’s intended, Erin. A striking young woman raised amongst the Indians since her youth, Erin drew the unwelcome …

Embittered by a lifetime of service denied its due—a promised pension never received—a retired Army sergeant abducted an old acquaintance, Candy. He then compelled Candy to join him in a reckless scheme: to destroy the U.S. Mint in Carson C…

Ben’s friend was battling to maintain her newspaper amidst escalating pressure from Gunlock’s powerful civic leader, and so, acting discreetly, Ben purchased the business for her.

A mysterious conjurer arrived in Virginia City, accompanied by his two strikingly similar daughters, quickly creating considerable bewilderment – a veritable tangle of mistaken identities.

The courtroom floor in Virginia City gave way suddenly, plunging Ben into the building’s dark basement alongside three others—among them a person who might well be implicated in a murder.

During his two months of leave, Hoss dedicated himself to assisting a Black family revitalize their struggling farm, all while confronting the pervasive prejudice simmering within the nearby community.

While traveling through the countryside, Candy encountered a soldier fleeing accusations of desertion. With Joe’s assistance, they managed to disrupt a scheme involving the illicit sale of rapid-fire rifles to Native Americans.

Joe stood frozen, disbelief etched on his face, to find Emily Anderson in Virginia City. He remembered Monterey, five years past, and the wedding they had envisioned. But her father, a man of rigid principles, deemed Joe too impetuous and d…

Joe and Candy journeyed to Butlerville and discovered that one of Ben’s dearest friends was harassing new arrivals, dismissing them as trespassers on his land. Complicating matters, Candy found herself facing a familiar ghost; her former lo…

Consumed by feelings of neglect, the marshal’s daughter eloped with a ranch hand from the Ponderosa – a connection her father suspects might tie the young man to the assailant who once wounded him.

Coley Clayborn, harboring a lifelong belief that his mother had deserted him and his father, now suspects her sudden return to Virginia City is motivated solely by the gold mine he has inherited.

As Ben and Hoss journeyed to confer with an old acquaintance regarding the acquisition of a mine, a group of former Confederate soldiers appeared, intent on settling a score. They sought retribution against their host, claiming he had left …

Two skilled deceivers managed to defraud Ben of close to thirty thousand dollars, persuading the head of the Cartwright family to invest in a cattle purchase. They then shot Ben, robbed the Virginia City Bank, and fled, with Little Joe purs…