Author: patina
You Can’t Keep an Old Lawman Down (by Patina)
Summary: Is it too much to ask for the law to experience a Silent Night at Christmastime?
Rating: G (2,795 words)
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Not Til We Find Him (by Patina)
Summary:. A missing son, a father’s search. A WHIB and WHI for The Crucible.
Rating: T Word Count: 5,353
Hope in a Dimming World (by Patina)
Summary: Roy Coffee, faced with losing a job he loves, must learn to prepare for the future with Joe Cartwright’s help. References to the episodes “The Stillness Within” and “No Less a Man.”
Rating: G 2,970 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
How Adam Saved Christmas (by Patina)
Summary: Adam tells no ordinary bedtime story on Christmas Eve
Rating: G
Words: 2,380
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
Tumbleweeds (by Patina)
Summary: When help is desperately needed, Cochise provides it.
Rating: T Word Count: 4,208
Good Will Toward Men (by Patina)
Summary: Tis the season for generosity.
Rating: G Words 1,000
Written for the 2022 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
A Single Wound (by Patina)
Summary: Danger lurks in a single wound.
Rated: T Word Count: 3925
Hair of the Dog (by Patina)
Summary: Ben pays for the night before, much of which he can’t remember.
Written for day 24 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 1400
Unto Us a Child is Given (by Patina)
Summary: It’s love that makes a family.
Written for day 14 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 2217
A Cartwright’s Word is a Binding Oath (by Patina)
Summary: An old friend requests the Cartwrights’ help when vengeance comes calling
Rating: T Word Count: 4748
Harry’s Horse (by Patina)
Summary:
Rating: G 2,365 words
This story was written for the Bonanza Brand 2020 Advent Calendar, originated in the Forums.
Homesick (by Patina)
Summary: Far from home, a special person helps ease the ache.
Rating: G 1,840 words
Note: This story was written for the Bonanza Brand 2020 Advent Calendar, originated in the Forums.
Fireworks (by Patina)
Summary: What’s the Fourth of July without fireworks?
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,609
The Tipping Point (by Patina)
Summary: It’s looking more and more like lumps of coal are likely gifts this year.
Rating: G
Word Count: 3,070
Mission (by Patina)
Summary: WHN for Desert Justice. Adam and Hoss accompanied Dave Walker to Los Angeles to make sure their friend arrived alive for trial. When Walker escapes from jail, Marshal Emmett Dowd enlists the Cartwrights’ help to track Walker down.
Word Count: 5437
Rating: T
