Chronology of the Virginian

As stated in the article on the Virginian The TV series tying down a time frame for the show is tricky because there are a number of inconsistences. However, this is the chronology that seems to be present in the series

Season 1...................1897-1898

Season 2....................1898-1899

Season 3.....................1899-1900

Season 4.....................1900-1901

Season 5.....................1901-1902

Season 6.....................1902-1903

Season 7.......................1903-1904

Season 8.......................1904-1905

Season 9........................1905-1906 Note-Was called The Men From Shiloh  in this season.

In addition to the inconsistent dating, one might wonder why the show continued to have a sort of nineteenth century feel even though the later seasons are in the early twenieth century. The answer to this is that while the Virginian is indeed showing the last days of the Old West, many places in the West had a nineteenth century culture well into the twentieth century; in particular the early part of the twentieth century.