RENO, Nev. (AP) – Several pieces of memorabilia from the long-running TV
series "Bonanza" are going up for auction in Nevada, including the branding
iron used in the opening credits.

The family of "Bonanza" star Lorne Greene is selling a number of the deceased
actor’s personal items and much of his memorabilia from the hit Western show
at an auction Saturday in Reno. The sale was arranged by Greene’s son who
lives at Lake Tahoe.

The actor died in 1987. From 1959 to 1973, he played Ben Cartwright, the
patriarch of the family whose sprawling Ponderosa Ranch was set in the high
Sierra between Tahoe and Virginia City.

Auction items include the branding iron that fans of the show will remember
from each week’s opening credits burning up the Old West-style map of the
ranch and surrounding frontier.

Lorne (Lyon Himan) Greene (Jan.12, 1915 – Sep.11, 1987)

"Paperback Writer" was the last new song by the Beatles to
be featured on their final tour which kicked off in Munich,
Germany in 1966, and was the group’s only U.S. number one
released that year.

 
Tim Maguire

Actress June Lockhart primarily is remembered as the mother in two
TV series, Lassie during the mid 1950s on CBS and Lost in Space 
(1965-1968) on CBS. She also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the
CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70).

She made her acting debut opposite her parents in a film version of
A Christmas Carol, in 1938.

Carly Elisabeth Simon

Simon’s 1988 hit "Let the River Run" was the first song in history to win a
Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for a song
both written and performed by a single artist. She was inducted into the
Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
for "You’re So Vain" in 2004, and awarded the ASCAP Founders Award
in 2012.