Here is a cute article from the Tucson Citizen, 1969. You can practically see the show being filmed...

DON SCHELLIE

Meanwhile, Out At The Cannon Spread...

Daily Tucson Citizen, Friday Oct. 24, 1969

It's peaceful these days out at the old ranch house.

The Cannons have left town.

Cast and crew of "The High Chaparral" television series tossed their six-guns and cameras and arc lights and spurs into their warbags and rode off into the setting sun.

To Hollywood.

There they will work until mid-December, filming interior shots that will carry the popular series through the current season. But the Tucson area location filming for the season was completed Saturday.

And so there is a ghostly stillness on the High Chaparral ranch house set out at Old Tucson.

Except, of course, for the hundreds of tourists who daily make the pilgrimage to the Cannon spread to photograph one another in front of the ranch house they see weekly in Living Color on NBC.

But last week there was action at the place. Real action.

Take Friday, for example.

Big John Cannon — Leif Erickson — faced down a guest star badman in the ranch yard.

Henry Darrow, Cameron Mitchell and Mark Slade were there — guns ready — to back him up.

And Linda Cristal wrung her hands and pleaded with Big John to be careful, for the love of Pedro.

All the while the cameras rolled on, grinding out an episode to be called "Jelks."

A makeup man skittered back and forth daubing at smeared makeup and a prop man carefully cleaned a hogleg that had been thrown to the ground.

The morning sun drenched the ranch yard and threw deep shadows on nearby mountains. A crew member wiped at his brow with a bandana.

A worker with a big shovel and garden rake followed some horses as another hosed down a stretch of ground. An electrician fiddled with the innards of his klieg light and the director, in a big, floppy hat, checked some dialogue in the script.

An assistant director used a bullhorn to call in the stars' stand-ins, and the cameraman jockeyed for a better angle.

Three cowboy actors lazed in the shade of the bunkhouse while another practiced his draw. A hairdresser made minor repairs to Miss Cristal's

coiffure.

A pair of big lights was wheeled in closer and a sound man, manipulating a microphone on a long pole, called for more cable.

Workmen walked back and forth with stepladders, hammers, tape, reflectors, paint, and did their things.

Meanwhile, outside the yard, beyond the fence, a man in a yellow vest and big hat kept the crowd of visitors quiet during the filming.

And Erickson faced down the outlaw again, this time from a different angle.

As the cameras rolled on.

But this week all's quiet at the old ranch house.

The Cannons have left town.

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