The High Chaparral episodes 1 and 2 Season 1

The High Chaparral television series was broadcast on NBC from 1967 to 1971. An American Western action adventure drama set in the 1870s. It stars Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell. The enigmatic theme song was written and conducted by Bonanza scorer David Rose. The two-hour opening episode establishes the background to the action, bringing “Big John“ Cannon and his family and brother Buck to the frontier high desert scrubland in the southern Arizona Territory near the border with Mexico, where they buy a run-down hacienda and establish a cattle ranch on it. The Apaches, under the leadership of Cochise, are hostile; John’s wife Anna-Lee is killed in an early attack, and to survive, the Cannons are compelled to enter into an alliance with a rich and powerful neighboring rancher, Don Sebastian Montoya, who owns a huge estate on the Mexican side of the border adjoining the “High Chaparral“.