Guestward, Ho!

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Guestward, Ho! was a situation comedy which aired on the ABC television network in the 1960-61 television season. It was based on a novel of the same title by Patrick Dennis.

The premise was that a New York City family, the Hootens, had so tired of the urban lifestyle that they decided to leave it behind in favor of operating a dude ranch in New Mexico. They bought the place sight unseen, and upon arrival found it to be in need of considerably more work that they had been led to believe. The Hootens did, however, make a friend in the American Indian "Hawkeye" whose "trading post" was the only source of supplies in the ranch's vicinity. Hawkeye was a rather cynical Indian, who sold Indian-looking trinkets which had actually been mass-produced in Asia and frequently read The Wall Street Journal, seemingly in search of a way to buy the country and return it to its "rightful owners".