The Dakotas
originally aired on ABC
The Dakotas is an ABC/Warner Bros. western television series starring Larry Ward and featuring Jack Elam, Chad Everett, and Michael Greene. The short-lived program is considered a spin-off of Clint Walker's Cheyenne. The series follows the efforts of U.S. Marshal Frank Ragan and his three deputies as they try to keep order in the Dakota Territory during the Gilded Age prior to statehood in 1889.