High Chaparral Ranch - The western adventure HIGH CHAPARRAL/NBC/1967-71 followed the 1870s saga of the Cannon family and their to struggle to run the High Chaparral, a cattle ranch located in the arid high dessert of the Arizona Territory. Leif Erikson starred as Big John Cannon, the family patriarch. Family members included Linda Cristal as John's wife, Victoria Montoya-Cannon; Cameron Mitchell as Buck Cannon, John's brother; Mark Slade as Blue Cannon, John's son; and Victoria's stepson; Frank Silvera as Don Sebastian Montoya, Victoria father; Gilbert Roland as his brother Don Domingo de Montoya and Henry Darrow as Manolito, Don Sebastian's son.