Ponderosa Ranch high in the Sierra Nevada, with a large ranch house in the center of it. Ben Cartwright was said to have built the original, smaller homestead after moving from New Orleans with his pregnant third wife Marie and his two sons, Adam and Hoss. The grown Adam, an architect/engineer, designed the later sprawling ranch house as depicted on TV ("Bonanza, The Philip Diedesheimer Story", Oct. 31, 1959, NBC-TV; "Bonanza: The Return", April 1993, NBC-TV). The fictional ranch was roughly a two-hour horse ride from Virginia City, Nevada. (Note: There are slight variations as to the origin of the Ponderosa Ranch,
Kelly Cartwright losing her leg, she played netball. She climbed Mt Kilimanjaro in 2009. , she works as a receptionist. She is also an Australian Paralympic Committee and Make-A-Wish Foundation ambassador. In 2012, she was named one of "Zoo Weekly"s sexiest Paralympians. Cartwright appeared on the fifteenth season of "Dancing with the Stars". She has a son (born 4 January 2016) with her partner Ryan. Cartwright is a T42 classified runner. She is coached by Tim Matthews. In 2008, she had a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport. , she has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport. Cartwright started