Name: The Deserter
Released: 1962-10-21

Colonel Edward J. Dunwoody, a man with a deep disdain for Native Americans, arrives at the Ponderosa searching for Bill Winters, an army deserter and close friend of the Cartwright family. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, Bill is his son and is married to a Native American woman. Bill fled after receiving orders to commit a horrific act against the Shoshone by poisoning their food and water, a plan for genocide. When the Shoshone learn of this, they capture Colonel Dunwoody in retaliation for his son's actions.

Show Bonanza

Episode S04E05

Air Date Oct 21, 1962

Season 4 Episodes

S04E01 The First Born S04E02 The Quest S04E03 The Artist S04E04 A Hot Day for a Hanging S04E05 The Deserter S04E06 The Way Station S04E07 The War Comes to Washoe S04E08 Knight Errant S04E09 The Beginning S04E10 The Deadly Ones S04E11 Gallagher's Sons S04E12 The Decision S04E13 The Good Samaritan S04E14 The Jury S04E15 The Colonel S04E16 Song in the Dark S04E17 Elegy for a Hangman S04E18 Half a Rogue S04E19 The Last Haircut S04E20 Marie, My Love S04E21 The Hayburner S04E22 The Actress S04E23 A Stranger Passed This Way S04E24 The Way of Aaron S04E25 A Woman Lost S04E26 Any Friend of Walter's S04E27 Mirror of a Man S04E28 My Brother's Keeper S04E29 Five into the Wind S04E30 Saga of Whizzer McGee S04E31 Thunder Man S04E32 Rich Man, Poor Man S04E33 The Boss S04E34 Little Man... Ten Feet Tall

The Deserter (S04E05)

Season 4 Episodes