Summary: Joseph Cartwright suffers what he considers a fate worse than death when an accident during a stampede causes him to face time in a wheelchair and Adam’s hopes of marriage are dashed when he is sent on an assignment to Alaska.

Rated: K+ (210,950 words)

Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: It’s hot and work is hard for Adam and Hoss while Joe is off on a jaunt elsewhere. Then Adam wakes up during the night knowing that Joe needs help …

Rated: K (19,285 words)

Summary: Eli Prowse fell in love with a beautiful young girl, but she chose to marry Ben and ‘live happily ever afterwards.’ Years have passed and Eli has journeyed to the Ponderosa to destroy those whom he holds responsible for Elizabeth’s death … Ben, and her son, Adam.

Rated: T (74,980 words)

Summary: Joe’s determination to ‘grow up and prove to the world he’s a man’ provides his brothers’ with a full time job on their hands trying to keep him out of trouble!

Rated: K (21,060 words)

Summary: Adam and Joe Cartwright face the worse possible kind of danger . a silent enemy, one unseen and lethal … but which of them will survive?

Rated: K+ (22,570 words)

Summary:   Joe departs with a light heart to attend a friends wedding little knowing that Frederic Kyle has a longer shadow that any in the family realize and it isn’t long before Joe,and Adam, are drawn into the War between North and South.

Rated: K+ (32,815 words)

Summary: An evening playing chess and memories hover …

Rating: K+ (1,510 words)

Summary: This is the second of the Captain Cartwright series in which Joe leaves the Ponderosa and finds true love, extreme danger and a longing for home. It also brings Adam home from sea to join with Hoss in a search for their little brother.

Rated: K (154,265 words)

“Joseph’s restless by nature, gets that from me I suppose. He wants a chance to find his own rainbow and his own pot of gold at the bottom of it. Well, this is his chance.”

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Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: This story includes an alternative introduction of Candy to the Cartwright family, where he finds a restless Joe Cartwright who resents the fact that his eldest brother left the Ponderosa. Adam meanwhile has adventures of his own far away at sea … This story begins my Captain Cartwright series, however, it was preceded by, I Shall Cherish You Forever.

Rated: K (72,755 words)

Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Adam goes on an errand for a sick man and finds a cat, a dead town, and an adventure.

Rating:  G  (10,550 words)

Summary: Everyone at school had a secret in the family so Joe was convinced there had to be a secret in his own, and where better to find it than in a certain box in his father’s room

Rating:  G  (2,190 words)

Summary: Hop Sing decides it’s time to quit! This story may be familiar to forum readers but I hope it will appeal to those newer members of Bonanzaworld who have yet to read it.

Rating:  G  (1,060 words)

Summary: A hot day, a melting pig, and Joe wants to know about the birds and the bees.

Rating:  G  (1,390 words)

Summary: This is the second part of the story about Abbie who first appeared in the story Like a Phoenix Rising which ended with her married to one of the Cartwrights … this part reveals which Cartwright was her husband and what happened to them.

Rating:  PG  (20,000 words)

Like A Phoenix Rising Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: A young woman’s account of how she found hope and love when her life seemed to have crumbled into ashes …

Rated: K (23,435 words)

Like A Phoenix Rising Series, links to all the stories within the series included.