Then the ore dwindled, and Virginia City died. It was “Bonanza,” the venerable ‘60s TV western that helped put it back on the map. When the Cartwright clan galloped into town from the ...

sidelining his efforts to bring more than 100 slot machines back to the Delta Saloon and the Bonanza Saloon on Virginia City’s main drag. Malfitano, a former dentist in Antioch, California ...

FOR THE RECORD: A news obituary in Wednesday’s LATExtra section on “Bonanza” creator and producer David Dortort said the TV show was set in Nevada City. It was set in Virginia City ...

This was the "Big Bonanza." Growing to more than 25,000 ... A great fire on Oct. 26, 1875, 139 years ago today, raged through Virginia City destroying almost three-quarters of the city.

"Bonanza" became a big hit, especially in Virginia City, where many of Bonanza's episodes had a Virginia City connection written into the story line. As the Cartwright Clan of the Ponderosa Ranch, ...

The "Bonanza" TV show, which was not filmed in Virginia City but associated with it, turned the place into a tourism magnet. The show ran from 1959 to 1973, but its impact continued long after the ...

Excerpt from THE BONANZA KING: John Mackay and the Battle ... and silver ore running beneath the mountainside town of Virginia City, Nevada,the most important town in the young state.

And Virginia City takes to its Wild West role like a cowboy takes to campfire beans. Travelers who have watched the old TV show Bonanza, set near Virginia City during the boom years, probably have ...

"They're the heart and soul of Virginia City," he told commissioners of the ... He bought the Delta Saloon and Bonanza Saloon in October 2014. Commission members said it was an issue of character ...

The TV show Bonanza helped make Westerns famous. Airing for 14 seasons, it’s NBC’s longest-running Western series. It’s also the show that helped make Michael Landon famous. Being on the air ...

The time: after the 1859 discovery of gold and silver in Virginia City, Nev. According to Dortort's New York Times obituary, "Bonanza" debuted on Saturday, Sept. 12, 1959, on NBC, opposite "Perry ...

One evening sometime in the 1850s, John Mackay, a prospector, was playing poker with his fellow silver miners in Virginia City, Nev ... Crouch tells us in “The Bonanza King,” his monumentally ...