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Adam Cartwright is a fictional character: the eldest child of Ben Cartwright on the 1960s television show Bonanza. Adam Cartwright was played by Pernell Roberts.

The character Adam Cartwright was born in 1830, the first son of Ben Cartwright and Elizabeth Cartwright in New England. Adam is the eldest Cartwright son, and the only one to attend college. He became an engineer/architect and built the Ponderosa ranch house as well as some Nevada mines. Adam is good with a gun, mature and responsible, and generally looked upon for decision making during crisis by his two younger brothers Hoss and Little Joe in the absence of his father.

When Pernell Roberts left the show in 1965, it was explained briefly that Adam left the Ponderosa to become a seaman (a profession held by his maternal grandfather and once held by his father. Adam would later have a son named A.C. who would appear in the 1995 Bonanza TV movies Bonanza: The Return, and Bonanza: Under Attack.

Adam was portrayed as a young man by Matthew Carmody in the prequel television series Ponderosa, which ran for twenty episodes in 2001-02 (and available on DVD).

[edit] External links

• Pernell Roberts bio at PonderosaScenery.Homestead.com

[edit] See also

• Bonanza
• Pernell Roberts
• 1959 in television

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