A famous writer also made a cameo on the show as a character. Which American author dropped into Ponderosa Ranch?

Mark Twain – then known as Samuel Clemens – may have very well been neighbors with the Cartwrights. He reported for a newspaper in Virginia City in the early 1860s. His character was brought on Bonanza in the episode, "The Twenty-Sixth Grave".

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