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,
Erik Cartwright least 3 times for performances of (In Memory of) Elizabeth Reed at the Beacon Theatre in New York in March 1999.<ABBase at www.allmanbrothersband.com></http://allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Calendar&file=showCalendarMonth&type=viewevent&tapers=1&eid=884&day=27&month=03&year=1999<http://allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Calendar&file=showCalendarMonth&type=viewevent&tapers=1&eid=882&day=25&month=03&year=1999></http://allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Calendar&file=showCalendarMonth&type=viewevent&tapers=1&eid=872&day=12&month=03&year=1999» He was the brother of musician Brett Cartwright, who has played bass guitar for Joan Jett, David Johansen, and Shayne Fontayne. Brett Cartwright also toured as Foghat's bassist during the late 1980s. Erik Cartwright Erik Cartwright (July 10, 1950 – July 9, 2017) born in New York, New York was an American rock guitarist best known for playing with Foghat. Cartwright replaced original Foghat guitarist Rod Price in 1981. He played lead and slide guitar on Foghat's