3.   The Ponderosa, the home of the Cartwright family, should be treated as a special kind of place, a sort of mythical kingdom on the glistening crown of the Sierra.  Good people, role models, are in charge here.  People slow to anger, but tread lightly or suffer the consequences.  Stern, formidable, when faced with injustice, but loose, relaxed, fun-loving, a family that can laugh at itself as easy as it can challenge a swindler, a bounty hunter, a slave master, or a robber baron, no matter how high the odds are against them.
     It's a whole new world today, but some things never change.  Such as the high standards maintained by America's most loved fictional family, the Cartwrights of the great Ponderosa Ranch.