The High Chaparral

1 9 6 7 - 1 9 7 1 (USA)
98 x 50 minute episodes

Set in the early 1870s, The High Chaparral was the story of Big John Cannon who moved to Arizona with his wife, Anna Lee, his twenty year old son, Billy Blue, his brother, Buck, and a dream of establishing a cattle empire in this rugged, untamed land.

John dreams of building a life of peace and cooperation with the native Apache. 

He has his work cut out for him, for his brother drinks, his relationship with his son is fraught with all the difficulties common between fathers and sons, and his wife, though loving and supportive, is terrified by the savagery she sees around her.

Within days of arriving in their new home, the army warns them off, Apaches attack, and John finds he has a hostile neighbour to the south, in Mexico, by the name of Don Sebastian Montoya - who claims the High Chaparral land as his own.

Anna Lee is killed in a raid, and John is forced into an arranged marriage with Don Sebastian's daughter, Victoria Montoya, as the price of peace with that enemy. He acquires a new brother-in-law, as well, Manolito, who comes to help him establish the High Chaparral.

Billy Blue, still grief stricken over the death of his mother, is shocked by his father's actions and rebels, deserting the ranch.

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Big John Cannon Leif Erickson Buck Cannon Cameron Mitchell Billy Blue Cannon Mark Slade Manolito de Montoya Henry Darrow Victoria Cannon Linda Cristal Don Sebastian de Montoya Frank Silvera Sam Butler Don Collier Reno Ted Markland Pedro Roberto Contreras Joe Robert Hoy Wind Rudy Ramos