Summary:  Adam reads a letter from Hoss that makes him realise how much he misses his brothers.  Hoss and Joe are missing their bossy older brother, he had his uses!  Ben is simply worried about his youngest sons who are MISSING!
Rating:  G  (8,510 words)

Summary:  The bond between brothers is strong, but is it as strong as Hoss believes?
Rating:  G (8,500 words)

Summary:  Trouble for the Cartwrights in San Francisco. Ben finds out that deeds he did in his past come back to haun him; fortunately, it’s the good deeds that prove to be most useful.  
Rating:  PG  (8,580 words)

Summary:  The Cartwright boys are only too willing to help out the new schoolteacher.  This causes a little conflict between them, but Adam and Joe learn that you should never jump to conclusions.
Rating:  G (7,620 words)

Summary:  Little Joe learns that opening a locked box can release troubles and cause all manner of problems.
Rating:  PG  (4,840 words)

Summary:  Adam and his friend Ross decide to take a fishing trip.  To Adam’s dismay, two little brothers manage to go along, too.  Of course, with a mischievous six-year-old along, the trip is not quite what Adam had planned. 
Rating  G  (12,110 words)

Summary:  First love can be painful in more ways than one.  When Adam first begins to explore the world of girls and love, the whole family find this out as they and he try to come to terms with his ‘growing’ pains.
Rating:  PG13  (28,900 words)

Summary:  Ben tries to teach a young Hoss the parable of ‘The Good Samaritan’, but Hoss turns the tables on him, and Ben learns the real meaning of the story.
Rating:  G  (12,000 words)

Summary:  A young Joe begs for a new story to while away another winter’s afternoon.  Ben responds by telling how a simple request for Adam to find Hoss a new pastime rebounds on him.
Rating:  G  (9,500 words)

Summary: Six-year-old Joe asks his big brother what he can do and Adam comes to regret telling him.
Rating:  G  (5,700 words)

Summary:  Hoss is having trouble at school and uses a boast of Adam’s to help him out.  The boast threatens to have tragic consequences when Adam feels obliged to carry it through.
Rating:    G   (11,300 words)

Summary: After Inger’s death Ben, Adam and baby Hoss journey west. Adam makes a new friend and the family find a new home.
Rating: G (16,070 words)

Summary:  On the eve of Joe’s wedding the three boys meet at the lake and the discovery of their old sailboat causes them to remember the first time Joe went sailing!  In the course of the tale we find out why Adam’s name does not appear on the witness tree.
Rating:  PG  (7,600 words)

Summary: The period of Adam Cartwright’s life from Marie’s arrival at the Ponderosa until after Joe’s birth.
Rating: G (158,600 words)

Summary: Adam and Joe bring down some trunks from the attic and Pa relates a hundred year old family story to amuse a bored Little Joe on a winter’s day.
Rating: G (6,840 words)