Stockton no longer looks like the place where Ben, Little Joe and Hoss went to get supplies.
“Ben, Little Joe and Hoss went to get supplies.”
That’s because they went to Virginia City.
Big Valley had Stockton as a hub. And that port city has always been a nasty place.
Victoria Barkley and her brood lived near Stockton, but your point is the same.
Well at least Hop Sing was
The Ponderosa was supposedly located near Lake Tahoe Nevada (on the eastern side of the lake), which would be about 120 miles, or more, from Stockton. Did they supposedly travel that far to get supplies? I think Carson City would have been much closer. 8>)