Ambrose Bierce was an influential journalist, satirist, writer of poetry and horror whose works were said to have inspired authors as diverse as H.P Lovecraft and Earnest Hemmingway. And his fame makes it all the more mysterious that, in 1913, he disappeared without a trace.
Sixty six years ago a new television show premiered. Bonanza, the saga of the Cartwrights of the Ponderosa ranch was made for the express purpose of selling color televisions, and it brought color to many lives.