Settling the Score (by Julee)
Summary: Ben discovers his fair method of doling out the least desirable jobs isn’t as fair as he’d thought. With their “match trick” gone astray, Adam and Little Joe have reason to worry! This was one of my first stories written several years ago. Hope it gives you a chuckle!
Rating: K (Word Count: 8,748)
Halloween Campfire Stories (by BettyHT)
Summary: What is there to do on a dark and rainy evening on a fall cattle drive than to tell spooky stories to entertain each other. Some have humor, some have mystery, and some have a bit of a fright factor. Some may be familiar but keep reading because there’s more added.
rating = T WC = 11,760
In for a Penny, In for a Pound (by Pulitzer2016)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Adam and his best friend Ross find a bottle of whiskey in the Marquettes’ hayloft and decide to recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine. What could possibly go wrong?
Rating: T Word Count: 10,554
Annie’s Story (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam meets a feisty young woman who thinks that arguing means that you care. It’s a tempestuous relationship at times, but loyalty, honesty, courage, and love are the cornerstones of the foundation that supports them through many crises. Although the story is centered on the Adam and Annie relationship, the rest of the family is important to the story and there are changes for all of them too including romances.
rating = T word count = 155,709
Piney Woods (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Joe is on one of his regular visits to Carrie Prickett when trouble breaks out.
Word count: 2,461 (Rating: K+)
Dang, He Smells Good (by BettyHT)
Summary: Three women and one man. How is Adam supposed to choose when all three want him, but he can only romance one. Who will he choose? You get to choose for him.
rating = T WC = 1632
The Lilies of the Valley–Book 2 of the Lilies series (by sandspur)
Summary: Adam and Tilly go to Europe for the worst honeymoon ever, landing in the middle of a war to end up missing and presumed dead. Meanwhile, Ben, Joe, and Hoss move on with their lives, finding new friends and uncovering strange secrets from the past.
Rating: T. Violence, character death, attempted rape, etc. (109,635 words)
The Lilies Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Cat (by BettyHT)
Summary: Gone for many years, two men make their way back to the Ponderosa and the family that misses them. They don’t know each other, but they end up in a critical situation that brings them close together and that leads to many changes for all.
Rating = T WC = 42,544
Cat Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Don’t Give Up (by Mumu74)
Summary: This is my contribution, with the words I received, including the Petticoats. Enjoy. It’s short, this is what I managed to do. I have plenty of ideas and possible scenarios, and I had major troubles putting it together.
Rating: K (805 words)
The Love of His Life (by Krystyna)
Summary: Memories and the hurt over losing Rebecca Kaufman cause someone else to recount their own loss, in hopes it will help Adam to understand — he is not alone.
Rating: K+ (4,360 words)
You Can’t Keep an Old Lawman Down (by JulieS)
Summary: Former sheriff of Virginia City, Roy Coffee believes that Adam Cartwright is now leading a life of crime and so he decides to do something about it.
Rated: G (7908 words)
The Way Things Are series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Do as I Say (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Ben has always tried to teach by example, tried to get it through to his sons how he expects them to act. But do they ever listen? A 2015 Camp in the Pines story and a WHN for Quality of Mercy. Rating: K+ (1,255 words)
A Stranger Came to Stay (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: What if Hoss had not regained his memory during his overnight stop at the Ponderosa and had, instead, gone off with the Vandervorts? Could he ever find his way back to himself again and how would the other Cartwrights cope with a loss that might become permanent? Discover the answers in this WHI version of “A Stranger Passed This Way.”
Rating: K Word Count: 26,269
Somebody else’s dog (by Inca / aka Tye)
Summary: There’s been some gossip in Virginia City about Ben Cartwright’s new wife.
Rating: K Word count: 581
Hi Ya, Sweetheart (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a continuation of the Garden Party and Wearing a Frown stories with the same characters, but this is a much lighter story with humor especially with Adam’s son Lake and with romances for Ben and Hoss too although there are complications of course.
rating = T WC = 31,583
Irae Series, links to stories within the series are included.