a part of our late 1950s vocabulary and we well know the ponderosa and little joe and hoss and ben cartwright and etc . on that great show bonanza . it come saturday night and everyone be glue to the television set . this be a real show depict family value . there may have be a weekly crisis and but it be the strong family atmosphere that pull everyone together . lorne greene be dominant a the patriarch of the family . his word depict wisdom . we often be leave to wonder that ben cartwright and a widower and must have be the best of husband to that poor wife of his who have die . he rear wonderful son . naturally and we all wonder why pernell roberts leave the show . the show be a gold mine and robert surrender load of money when he depart . his career never take off a he be associate a a cartwright son . he should have try to get back into the series . he certainly lose a bonanza by drop out .