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Hello all,
I loved the show as a kid and still do. But its meaning goes deeper with me than just thinking it was a neat show. I was sort of "reared" by The Rifleman, Bonanza, and Gunsmoke. I come from a broken home, my parents divorcing when I was like three or four. My dad went back to Wash. D.C. so I had no dad around to to raise me and teach me manly ways. I literally absorbed those old shows. My mom and grandmothers did their best and raised me right, but from those old shows I learned all about honor and integrity, treating someone fairly, doing what is right, work ethics, manly ways, all of which is the true American way, pride and an abundance of other things. Other than a couple of uncles I seldom saw Lucas McCain, Ben Cartright, and to some extent Marshall Matt Dillon were my father figures.

Speaking of that I must say something: I feel sorry for kids that are in the situation I was in where about the only upbringing and male influence is from Tv and movies, but now-a-days. Because now there is so much garbage on tv and movies. So many of modern shows and movies glorify less than moral behavior, teach anything but honor and an honorable ethical lifestyle, and are filled with nothing but base, evil activities, where betrayal of a friend or loved one is common place.

Anyway, later when I learned the joy of reading a good book, Louis LaMour's westerns taught me a lot. His western stories, every single one of them, and their charactors (not the bad guys of course) were all honorable people, striving to do the right thing, make something of themeselves and their lives, living honest lives with honest hard work.

So to the Rifleman, Bonanza, and Gunsmoke and their wonderful charactors, my hat's off to y'all. You showed me what it is to be a good, hardworking, honest, honorable person, what ethics and integrity is, etc..

Well, I have rambled enough. Y'all forgive me for such a ramble.
Pistolero
Millbrook, Al.