![]() ![]() There were cast changes, most notably in the fourth season with the departure of Blue Cannon and Don Sebastian Montoya (who died both on the show and in real life) and the addition of Wind (Rudy Ramos) and Don Domingo Montoya (Gilbert Roland). Vaquero (Rudolfo Acosta) is also acquired in the first episode as household help. Sam's brother Joe (Bob Hoy), along with Reno (Ted Markland), Pedro (Roberto Contreras) and Ira (Jerry Summers) are the hard-working, fun-loving ranch hands. In the very first episode, Buck and Blue ride into Tucson and hire the ranch hands, led by Sam Butler (Don Collier), who becomes the ranch foreman. Roguish Manolito comes to the Cannon ranch as Victoria's guardian, and becomes a permanent part of the household after the arranged marriage turns to one of true love for both involved. The marriage was seen by John as merely a political alliance, but Victoria was truly in love with John. After his first wife's death, John married an aristocratic Mexican beauty, Victoria Montoya (Linda Cristal), daughter of wealthy Mexican Don Sebastian Montoya (Frank Silvera), and heiress, along with her brother Manolito (Henry Darrow), to the Don's extensive cattle holdings south of the border. Big John's sensitive son Billy Blue (Mark Slade) was a young man in his early 20's, whose mother was killed in the very first episode. ![]() To help him, he had his firebrand younger brother Buck (Cameron Mitchell), who could out-drink, outshoot, outfight, and when motivated, outwork any man alive. Stubborn, determined 50-year old Big John Cannon (Leif Erickson) was the patriarch of the family, and his driving ambition to establish a cattle empire in the rugged, Apache-infested land while finding a way to co-exist with the Apaches and the Mexicans just across the border was the thrust of the entire show. One of the most successful and highly acclaimed westerns on television was The High Chaparral, which aired from 1967 - 1971.Ĭhaparral is defined as dense, impenetrable thickets of shrubs or dwarf trees,Īnd it was the name given to the ranch owned and operated by the Cannon family in the Arizona Territory during the 1870's. ![]()
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