Author: Preserving Their Legacy Author
King of Pain (by WendyB)
Synopsis: What would happen if two brothers fell in love with the same girl? Pain!
Rating: PG-13 Words: 18,345
The Wizard of POZ meets the Ponderosa (by LindaBl)
Summary: A funny parody of Bonanza and The Wizard of Oz
Rating: G
Lady Isabelle and the Black Knight (by WendyB)
Synopsis: Abigail Jones’ fantasies get out of hand (literally).
Rating: G Words: 4,065
Love and Sacrifice (by WendyB)
Synopsis: Hop Sing tells the boys a story after Marie’s death.
Rating: G Words: 3,100
The Journal (by Texas 2002)
FanFiction written for The Ponderosa (Bonanza prequel)
Summary: An account of the Cartwright family’s trip from Independence, Missouri to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Rating: G Words: 61,100
Ponderosa # 3 – Just a Day Like Any Other (by Texas2002)
Summary: The title says it all.
Rating: G Words: 8,600
The Angel and The Cowboy (by WendyB)
Synopsis: A young, stuffy (er) Adam spends his Christmas with a college friend and has encounters his crazy sister Peanut, um, Penelope.
Rating: PG-13 Words: 24,700
A Little Courtesy (by WendyB)
Synopsis: Imagine what might have happened if Adam and Margarita took a detour after she lost her horse.
Rating: G Words: 3,110
Know Thyself (by MeiraB)
Synopsis: Adam reevaluates his long-standing view of himself as civilized man in light of his experience with Peter Cain as related in the episode “The Crucible”.
Rating: PG
Words: 3,900
Autumn Storm (by Linda Br)
Synopsis: While Ben and Joe are away in Carson City and Hoss laid up at the Ponderosa, Adam goes by himself to confirm that the sawmill is securely locked for the coming winter. While rounding up some stray cattle on the way home, he is seriously injured. Hurt and with a snowstorm bearing down on him, he needs to find shelter. Will he make it?
Rating: G Words: 24,660
The Birthday Gift (by Linda Br)
Synopsis: This is a story of the aftermath of the episode “The Savage” in which Adam has met and fallen in love with Ruth Halverson who then leaves him to save lhis life from the Shoshoni. It also covers the circumstances of Adam’s illness in “Elizabeth, My Love.”
Rating: R Words: 24,700
Farewell Forever, My Brother (by Linda Br)
Synopsis: Hoss has just been killed. Adam arrives home from Boston three weeks after he’s been buried. Deals with Adam’s feelings towards the loss of his brother.
Rating: PG-13 Words: 9,000
Ponderosa # 2 – Heading for the Hills (by Texas2002)
Summary: Following the story Up in Smoke… Rating: G 7,700 words
The Sunday Dinner Guest (by Sadie Spinner)
Synopsis: Ben’s plan for a quiet Sunday afternoon is interrupted by an unexpected visitor who leaves in his wake intense reactions ranging from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other. Rating: G (12,200 words)
Treasures of the Heart (by Texas2002)
Summary: Adam Cartwright sits at the dining table while the logs glow red in the nearby fireplace. He taps a pencil on the tabletop as memories surround him. Something inside him must record these memories. He eases the pencil to the blank page of a new journal. This is what he writes.
Rating: PG Words: 98,500
