{"id":25043,"date":"2019-11-18T12:39:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=25043"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:39:23","slug":"studio-executives-6-fake-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=25043","title":{"rendered":"Studio Executives #7 &#8211; Fake History (by pjb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>The Cartwrights recognize that they have a great deal to be thankful for. So why won\u2019t they do a Thanksgiving episode?<\/p>\n<p>WC: 2,440\u00a0 \u00a0Rating: PG<\/p>\n<p><strong>Studio Executives Series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=11166\">The Real History of &#8220;The Crucible&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=12927\">Little Joe Cartwright&#8217;s Very, Very, Very Bad Day<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=18351\">The Roberts Dilemma<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=19077\">A Ponderosa Christmas . . . Or Maybe Not<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=20012\">Men of the Ponderosa:\u00a0 A Valentine&#8217;s Day Treat<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=23102\">On the Other Hand<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=25043\">Fake History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=28304\">A Sharp Idea<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=29202\">Negotiating Clingers, Going Natural, and the Big-Ticket Item<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0FAKE HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>by pjb<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Scene:<\/em><\/strong><em> Conference room. STUDIO EXECUTIVE #1, STUDIO EXECUTIVE #2, and STUDIO EXECUTIVE #3 are gathered around the table. A plate in the middle holds a few doughnut crumbs; three empty coffee cups have been shoved aside in apparent frustration. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>SE #1:\u00a0 <\/strong>I don\u2019t get it. Why don\u2019t they want to do a Thanksgiving episode?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>They\u2019re not against Thanksgiving or anything like that. They just can\u2019t figure out if it would be historically accurate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Since when does anybody worry about <em>that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 No kidding. I don\u2019t think anybody in the writers room ever <em>took<\/em> history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Whenever I say anything, somebody always says, \u201cThis is <em>fiction<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Is that why the Cartwrights have hay bales in their barn? \u2019Cause I don\u2019t think hay balers had been invented back then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 They have hay bales because otherwise the set would be a mess. Also, there needs to be hay around to keep the horses from wandering off when the guys dismount.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised the writers haven\u2019t given them telephones and Chevy convertibles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Don\u2019t suggest it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 The sponsors would love it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Guys, let\u2019s focus. Back to the main issue\u2014there&#8217;s nothing wrong with Thanksgiving. I had one of the interns go to the library. Turns out Lincoln invented Thanksgiving in 1863. Lots of the show takes place after then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 But there are a lot of episodes that come before 1863, too. The writers screw around with the chronology so much that nobody can tell what year they\u2019re in at any given time. The guys have gotten very sensitive about this. Apparently, somebody made fun of them having Lotta Crabtree in the pilot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 What? That\u2019s insane!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yvonne DeCarlo is <em>hot!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, but Lotta Crabtree would have been about twelve years old in 1859. Yvonne was in her mid-thirties when she did that episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:\u00a0 <\/strong>Oops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 It probably wouldn\u2019t have been a big thing, except somebody decided to bring Lotta Crabtree back for another episode and have Hoss get a crush on her, and everybody\u2019s trying to figure out how old she is in the new episode. It\u2019s like season 8 or something. <i>Tons <\/i>of freaking out going on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Maybe we should go over and talk to the guys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>***********<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Scene: <\/em><\/strong><em>Interior. Ponderosa living room. Present: BEN CARTWRIGHT, ADAM CARTWRIGHT, HOSS CARTWRIGHT, LITTLE JOE CARTWRIGHT, CANDY CANADAY, JAMIE HUNTER CARTWRIGHT, HOP SING, SE #1, SE #2, SE #3.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks so much for taking the time to come over, gentlemen. Hop Sing, would you get them some coffee?<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOP SING:\u00a0 <\/strong>Coffee! Coffee! Allatime coffee!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 What\u2019s wrong with coffee?<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOP SING:\u00a0 <\/strong>Hop Sing have many other talents! Make many other things! <em>(storms out in a huff)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 You know, he\u2019s absolutely right. Hop Sing should get a chance to show off his culinary skills\u2014and what better time than at Thanksgiving?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 We\u2019ve been over this. We\u2019re tired of inaccurate history. It\u2019s embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your writers really need to learn about\u2014well, how time works. I mean, look at this\u2014you\u2019ve got me, Adam, and Jamie all here. What\u2019s up with that? I\u2019ve never been in a scene with Adam. He just gets mentioned occasionally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 What do they say about me?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mainly that we made a lot more money once you were gone since we only had to split the profits three ways instead of four.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Pa!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Joseph!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ben, we looked it up, and Thanksgiving started in 1863. So it\u2019s perfectly okay if you all have Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Depending what year it is here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah, \u2019cause it\u2019s not always logical. Like, I was seventeen in season 1, and by season 4 I was twenty-two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s not the show\u2019s fault. Maybe you\u2019re just lousy at math.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Pa!<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 And that little Shannon gal\u2014Hallie, I think it was? She died in season 6, and I think her tombstone said she died in 1868. How\u2019d we get there so fast?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Actually, it said 1859, which would mean I was still seventeen. Except I was a lot older than seventeen, and I know that because the furniture changed. When I was seventeen, we didn&#8217;t have a settee, but we did when Hallie came by after her husband died.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:\u00a0<\/strong> A dead girl came to visit you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>She wasn&#8217;t dead yet. Plus, when she died, I had my green jacket, and I definitely didn&#8217;t have that when I was seventeen. I think I got it in season 3. Hoss, when did I get my green jacket? Was that season 3 or season 4?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Will you boys settle down? Look, we\u2019re not against Thanksgiving. We\u2019re very grateful for all our blessings. We\u2019re just frankly a little tired of the way your writers play fast and loose with history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Can you give us a specific example? Other than that Lotta Crabtree thing, because we\u2019re already on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, here\u2019s an example. You had me almost getting killed by Doc Holliday because he was in love with Calamity Jane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 What\u2019s wrong with that? People loved that episode!<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 She kept calling me a peeping Tom. I don\u2019t even know what that is!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 It derives from the story of Lady Godiva. Apparently, there was a fellow who peeped at her when she rode naked through the town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE and CANDY: \u00a0<\/strong><em>(brightening)<\/em> She did <em>what?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 More to the point, how would Jane have known about this story? I think it\u2019s from England.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think we should all hear about it. In detail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 It would be good for my education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m all for getting our hands on this story, especially if it has pictures, but that\u2019s not even my point right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hang on\u2014Joe isn\u2019t interested in a story about a nekkid lady?<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 He said \u201cright now.\u201d Believe me, if there\u2019s a nekkid lady in this story, my little brother will get his hands on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 Or her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>(glaring at Hoss and Candy)<\/em> My point is that Calamity Jane Canary and Doc Holliday never knew each other in real life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, maybe they did and it\u2019s just not written down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Maybe not, but history did write down her age. Miss Canary was born in 1852, which means that if we were in, say, 1863 at the time of that episode, she\u2019d have been eleven years old.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Trust me, the gal who was here was a <em>lot<\/em> older than eleven!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:\u00a0 <\/strong>And according to history, Doc Holliday was only a year older than Miss Canary. So if she was eleven, he was twelve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s why I was able to face him down. Huh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sure, Little Brother. That\u2019s why. <em>(snickers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Okay, so that was a blip, but you have to admit\u2014it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yeah. I got to see that pretty gal in the bathtub. Those bubbles didn\u2019t cover as much as everybody thought.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 I always miss the good stuff!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 So, fine. The writers messed up a touch with Lotta Crabtree and the Calamity Jane episode. But you have to admit that they\u2019re accurate most of the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Really? Have you looked on my desk lately?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Why? Did somebody give you a typewriter? <em>(Ben glares)<\/em> Sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:\u00a0 <\/strong>I have eight-by-ten portraits of all my wives on my desk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s why it had to be so big. <em>(Ben glares)<\/em> Sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:\u00a0 <\/strong>Those portraits are great. We had to pay the women extra to sit for them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:\u00a0 <\/strong>I got the wallet-size version of my ma\u2019s picture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 So did I.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>(to Joe)<\/em> You have a bunch of pictures of your mother, and she looks completely different in each one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 So she liked to change her hair color. So what!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:\u00a0 <\/strong>I guess that explains why you keep changing yours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Beats wearing a wig!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Joseph!<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sorry, Pa\u2014I was talking about Adam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 You\u2019d better have been.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ben, I still don\u2019t see what\u2019s wrong with your wives\u2019 pictures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Other than the fact that they exist?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 What are you talking about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Do the math. Elizabeth, My Love, died the year Adam was born. This show started in 1859. Adam is twelve years older than Joe, who was seventeen in that episode. So that means Adam was twenty-nine in 1859, which means he was born in 1830.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Where is he getting all these numbers from?<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 Beats the hell out of me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 According to my research, the first permanent photographs were taken in France in the late 1830s. How can there be a photograph of Elizabeth, My Love, when she died before photographs were invented?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 But Inger was around in the 1830s, so she could have gotten a picture taken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Let\u2019s explore that one. Hoss is six years older than Joseph, which means that when the show began in 1859, he was twenty-three. Counting backward, that means he was born in\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong> \u00a0<em>(waving his hand)<\/em> I know! I know! 1836!<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 You could also have figured it out by just going ahead six years from 1830. <em>(Ben glares)<\/em> Sorry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Which means there couldn\u2019t have been any photographs of Inger\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014My Love\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Unless she was in France in the late 1830s which we know she wasn\u2019t because\u2014well. . . . <em>(waves his hands to indicate her fate)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Then how\u2019d I get the wallet-sized reprints? I got that framed one up in my room. We had to get the glass fixed after Pa broke it. That\u2019s how I got my memory back. If my ma never had a picture taken, how do I have my memory?<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing that maybe the writers know even less about medicine than they do about history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 So let\u2019s see. If I was born in 1842 and my ma died when I was five, that was 1847, so she could have had her picture taken! That means I\u2019m the only one with a real picture of his ma! I win! <em>(dances around victoriously)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong> \u00a0Except we don\u2019t know which of those pictures is the real one. The one you gave Clay didn\u2019t look anything like the one on Pa\u2019s desk or in your room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 That was an old girlfriend. You didn\u2019t think I was going to give away the real thing, did you? <em>(sits on the settee and plunks his feet on the coffee table)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 But what about the picture that one-armed southern guy gave you? It was a miniature version of one we saw on the wall in the hotel in a later episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>(on his feet, fists clenched)<\/em> Are you saying that one wasn\u2019t my ma?<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Calm down, Little Brother. He\u2019s just saying maybe your ma was so famous at the hotel that they put up her picture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 Um, you should probably stop this explanation right there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 I agree. There\u2019s no way this is going to get better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>(glaring at Candy and Adam)<\/em> That\u2019s just as well. Joseph, sit down. <em>(Joe sits)<\/em> As I was saying before we took this delightful trip down Memory Lane\u2014there\u2019s no historically accurate way I could have had photographs of all my wives in solid gold frames for that Frenchman to steal. So that\u2019s another \u201cblip,\u201d as you call it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Fine. We\u2019ll get rid of the photographs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hold your horses! I didn\u2019t say I don\u2019t like them. I just said they\u2019re not historically accurate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:\u00a0 <\/strong>Neither was that story about Mark Twain solving a murder, but it was still good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 There was no murder when Mark Twain was here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Different season. When he came back, he\u2019d gotten a lot taller, and I think he had red hair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 You lend him some of your hair dye?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Look, we could go on all day. The point is that we\u2019re tired of looking foolish by getting our history wrong. I mean, really\u2014when Adam shot Joe in season 4, you made him say there was only one doctor within fifty miles when everybody knows there were full-fledged hospitals in Virginia City, plus all the doctors in the Chinese section which we already knew about from that time in season 3 when we sent that nice Chinese girl to work there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 You had to bring that up again, didn\u2019t you? About me shooting Joe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 We know how you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Look, fellows, I promise you\u2014there\u2019s no question that Thanksgiving existed from 1863 on. You\u2019re not going to look foolish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Just wait until everybody sits down to a Thanksgiving feast prepared by our own Hop Sing. Won\u2019t that be terrific?<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>(calling)<\/em> What do you think about that, Hop Sing?<\/p>\n<p><em>(Hop Sing storms into the living room)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOP SING:<\/strong>\u00a0 Hop Sing <em>hate<\/em> it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 But why? You were just saying how you want to cook other things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019m already looking forward to you roasting the biggest turkey in Nevada!<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want a drumstick!<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want cranberry sauce!<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOP SING:\u00a0 <\/strong>Hop Sing have to roast the <em>only<\/em> turkey in Nevada! Because Nevada not have turkeys! Or cranberries!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well . . . you can have something else, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Like what? Thanksgiving fried chicken?<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 Or maybe Thanksgiving roast pork?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Why not a Thanksgiving trout while you\u2019re at it? We can send Hoss down to the fishing hole if it hasn\u2019t frozen over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:\u00a0 <\/strong><em>(to the SEs)<\/em> I think you know what we\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Um, yeah. No Thanksgiving episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 But we need to do more holiday stuff. People are starting to ask why the Cartwrights don\u2019t observe holidays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #1:<\/strong> \u00a0Maybe we could have Charles Dickens come for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #2:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s a great idea! He could read \u201cA Christmas Carol\u201d!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SE #3:<\/strong>\u00a0 Come on, let\u2019s get the writers going on it right away!<\/p>\n<p><em>(The SEs depart, eagerly planning)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Think we should tell them Dickens actually came to the U.S. in 1842?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 And never got west of St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 He did get back to the U.S. in 1867 or 1868\u2014I don\u2019t recall which\u2014but he stayed in the Northeast that time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 So he didn\u2019t ever get to Nevada, did he?<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADAM:<\/strong>\u00a0 Not according to real history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANDY:<\/strong>\u00a0 Have we even gotten to 1867 yet? For all we know, his visit could be next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Those writers get mighty confused about history, don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, they do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s one person I always wondered about. That lady\u2014I think her name was Julia Bulette\u2014didn\u2019t she come to town for real?<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 <em>(hastily)<\/em> I think it\u2019s time for you to go and do your homework.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMIE:<\/strong>\u00a0 I heard she was really popular.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s one way to put it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOE:<\/strong>\u00a0 Actually, Jamie\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEN:<\/strong>\u00a0 HOMEWORK! NOW!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>************<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Author\u2019s note:\u00a0 The Cartwrights never had a Thanksgiving celebration on the Ponderosa even though much of the show took place in and after 1863. They did, however, meet quite a few historical figures, some of whom really did come to Nevada during the show\u2019s timespan. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Luckily for Little Joe, Julia Bulette was one of them. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:  The Cartwrights recognize that they have a great deal to be thankful for. 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