The Truckee Strip

Season 1, Episode 11, Aired

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Luther Bishop and Ben Cartwright have had an ongoing dispute over a small tract of land called the Truckee Strip. The feud is reignited by one of Bishop's employees who's in cahoots with a baron who wants the lumber. Complicating matters is the romance that has sprung up between Little Joe and Bishop's daughter Amy.moreless
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  • Falling in love with a Cartwright--not a good thing! (Pitchfork spoilers ahead...)

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    By jokipper, Apr 01, 2010
    We're approaching the halfway point of season one, and by now we know that it's not a good thing to romance a Cartwright--bad things are going to happen! In this case, the young lady that falls for Joe pays the ultimate price.

    It's somewhat predictable, and the only question is how the romance will end. Bonanza seems to be on a mean streak at this point, and this budding relationship's finish is a violent one.

    We know that the Cartwrights rarely approve of any outsiders, and this particular love affair is complicated by a rather petty controversy about a small piece of land. Still, the romance does seem to have a possibility of actually bearing fruit, at least until the fight in the barn...

    The barn fight is a great one. It's easy to hate Coburn's slimey character, and we're ready for Joe to teach him a lesson. One might think that Jackie Chan had a hand in choreographing this battle, as no farm or barn implement seems to go unused in this long and violent showdown. Ultimately, after the blood and dust has settled, Joe's victory takes a tragic turn, as a thrown pitchfork has consumated the relationship once and for all.

    Despite the predictability, this episode is a good watch, from start to finish...and we should know that Bonanza doesn't always have a happy ending, especially when a Cartwright is in love.moreless

  • Little Joe falls in love with Amy Bishop, the daughter of Luther Bishop, who has had an ongoing land dispute with Ben for years.

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    By midniteeve, Apr 19, 2006
    This episode feature the first of many times that Little Joe falls in love and wants to get married. It is also the first time the girl meets a tragic fate before the marriage can take place. I always thought that Amy was the best match for Joe, among his many loves. The scene where he is at her bedside when she dies is a real tearjerker. James Coburn plays a really nasty bad guy in this one and he and Joe have a truely classic fight scene, with some rather grusome, but creative uses of farm equipment commonly found in a barn. This is a very memorable episode and I highly recommend it!moreless

  • Coburn was great (as usual), but episode was a joke

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    By BadApple66, Nov 08, 2005
    This wasn't a very plausible episode on several fronts, of which I will only go into one (I have better things to do than write Ph.D theses about TV shows).

    The way in which Little Joe Cartwright's love interest, Amy Bishop, was killed was absurd. She was killed by a pitchfork accidentally during a fight between Little Joe and the piece's villain, Pete Jessup. The fork simply wasn't thrown hard enough or close enough to have possibly killed her.

    PS: I'd like to know what the final "death" count was on the Ponderosa during its 14 year run. It sure seems like a lot of people got killed down there.
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    • Scenes for this episode were filmed at Big Bear Lake and Shay Ranch, Big Bear Lake, California. The shots in the opening credits of the Cartwrights riding up and posing were filmed at this time. These credits were used in an episode airing previously, The Philip Diedesheimer Story.

    • Those famous watercolors used during the opening and closing credits were first featured in this episode. At this point in the series, they were used for only the end credits. According to the "Bonanza: Scenery of the Ponderosa" web site, the vividly colored portraits were designed by Bonanza's art director A. Earl Hedrick, scenic art designer Hal Pereira, and producer David Dortort. The name of the actual artist who did the paintings is lost to history.

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