Summary: Guilt and mistakes – nobody is free of them. It’s not only the big guilt following bad deeds that can affect your life, but also mistakes and misinterpretations. There are many shades of guilt, as even the Cartwrights had to learn.

The story is set in 1863 and shows Adam as a substitute teacher.

Rated: K+  Word count: 10354

Summary:  Adam tells his grandson about the first time the three Cartwright brothers were in mischief together (post timeline part: 1905, prequel part: 1848) .

Word count:  6441  Rating: K

Grand Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: Adam and his small grandson make some discoveries about what really matters in life.

Rating:  K   (1,600 words)

Grand Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Ben and Adam visit a small fair on their way West.   Prequel 1835

WC: 670     Rating: K

Summary:  Ben waits for Adam on his first day at  school.  (Prequel, 1837/Seedling Challenge)

Rated: K   Word count: 1660

Die Familie Cartwright besucht ein Kirchenpicknick, alles ist harmonisch und friedlich – oder doch nicht?  Prequel (1846)

Rating:  K (2,650 words)

Summary:  A short vignette about a morning on the ranch

Rated: K+ WC: 570

Adam Vignette Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  A prequel about a young Little Joe, set in the fall of 1850 while Adam is away in Boston.  

Rating:  K  WC  2100

Summary:  A wanted poster prompts Ben and Adam to re-examine a moment from their journey West.

Rated: K+  600

Summary:   Cousins, cousins and more cousins.  Hop Sing’s relatives make the Ponderosa a real China-Rosa. Poor Ben isn´t very happy about that and even less about his three sons.

Rated: K+  WC 3600

Summary:  Little Joe hat einen schweren Unfall, während Adam auf ihn aufpassen soll (1845).  Über Rückmeldungen würde ich mich sehr freuen.

Rated: K+  WC 4200

Summary:  In early 1847, a winter’s night on the Ponderosa leads to an unexpected gift for the three brothers and the whole family.

Rated: K  WC: 2100

Summary:  Abigail Jones and Joe Cartwright take a journey together on business neither of them ever expected to have.

Rated: T  WC 4700

Summary:  Was kann den fünfjährigen Hoss dazu getrieben haben, von zu Hause wegzulaufen? Seine Familie macht sich große Sorgen und sucht ihn verzweifelt, doch er bleibt spurlos verschwunden ….

Rückmeldungen würden mich sehr, sehr  freuen!

Rated: K+  WC 10,000

Summary:  Pa is away and ….  A little comedy about fights, the mail, and an old friend. Typically?

Rated: K+  WC 1900