In an eerily similar fashion to his role here, actor Richard Farnsworth would later take his own life due to diminished capacity and cancer in 2000.
Veteran actor Richard Farnsworth also guest starred in Little House on the Prairie and Bonanza.
Actor Don Collier was also on the Bonanza TV series.
Gail Strickland also played a cattle rancher named Olive Davis in the Dr Quinn Medicine Woman TV series.
Michael Landon didn't really do much on horseback during this show.