Summary: The family has a house guest for a week who doesn’t act at all as they expected. Hoss thought he would have a friend, but their guest chose to attach to another family member.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2,212

Summary: Joe and Hoss do enjoy scheming for fun at Adam’s expense, but as with many of Joe’s schemes, there are unintended consequences.
Rating: T  Word count: 1,257

Summary: People wonder why Adam wears all-black clothing and there’s a story or two to explain why at least according to Hoss who has found a way to make that curiosity work to his benefit.
Rating: T  Word count: 1,238

Summary: A task gone wrong leads to a discussion and a bet among the brothers. 
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,194

Summary: Ben isn’t happy with how two sons decided to deal with a third who did something they didn’t like.  He’s even more unhappy with the third though.  
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,259

Summary: Working together, the brothers find trouble, and only their father knows the reason for what happens to them.
Rating: T  Word count: 3,478

Summary: This is a sequel to the Advent story about the weather vane. It is not necessary to read that one first but it might make it easier to understand some small parts if you are familiar with the first story. The healing power of that weather vane continues to work, this time on Adam.
Rating: PG  Word count: 3075

Summary: It began with a massage and started a romance for Adam that continued through 57 chapters in 9 stories. The whole family is involved in the story with more Hoss than the others. Hoss has a serious romance in this one too. The OC’s family is also part of the story but it doesn’t get too complicated. It begins with a Massage and continues with a variety of other subjects. There are romance, family squabbles, hurt and comfort, trouble with the Paiute, intrigue, adventure, and drama,
Rating: T  Word count: 104,138

Summary:  In this prequel, Little Joe is upset and has a lesson to learn that the opposite of love is not hate and that caring can mean criticism and advice as well as help. But don’t expect a magical transformation. He’s still Little Joe.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1566

Summary: a poem about Ben’s life from Boston to the Ponderosa and his family there.
Rating: PG  Word Count: 540

Summary: Returning home from a camping/hunting trip in this prequel, the brothers bond by teaching Little Joe how to manage the truth without making false statements to their father.
Rating: T  Word count: 1,339

Summary: Adam has been gone for seven years but a letter promising his return is followed by nothing except worry and trouble.
Rating: T  Word count: 8,708

Summary: The family is surprised by the charges brought against Adam in Carson City.  Ben assumes innocence is their best defense, but their foe has laid an elaborate but flawed trap.  
Rating: PG  Word count: 14,229

Summary: There are two stories here. The Lost Years is a WHI for the last seasons of Bonanza: Hoss is missing, Adam has been found, and he is coming home. This is what happened to them, and what will happen with Ben, Joe, Candy, and Jamie. Heart of Ice is a continuation of the Adam and Ellie story with more of an emphasis on Adam’s darker memories and what happens when he remembers those.
Rating: T  Word count: 58,319

Summary: This begins as a story of family conflict:  first it is a WHI for The Lady from Baltimore with Joe and Adam at odds and how they will repair their relationship and what changes will happen for the Cs especially Adam who meets a new friend who is significant in the future of his life. Then it is a WHI for She Walks In Beauty as Adam and Hoss are at odds. It continues as a WHN then as there are further developments for Adam in the third part of the story because of conflict with his father and his own dissatisfaction with his life that drives him to make decisions.
Rating: T  Word count: 36,620

Summary: It’s a dastardly plot involving trickery, attempted murder, false accusations, and more, but the Cartwrights will work together even letting Joe lead the planning to defeat the villains.
Rating: T  Word count: 11,924

Summary: A Double Life starts with a story of Adam doing a favor for a friend that becomes a career choice as Adam strikes out from the Ponderosa on a new career that is a cover for a second more dangerous career. The second part is By Crooked Paths in which someone is leaking the details of Adam’s secret life which allows those who seek vengeance to find him. 
Rating: T  Word count: 72,460

Summary: Hoss has an otherworldly experience after a dangerous man has an angry and violent outburst against his father putting other members of the family at risk too.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1043

Summary:  Little Joe Cartwright was born curious.  He unfortunately was also devious and prone to avoiding work whenever possible. In possession of other traits that could work to his advantage or against him, Little Joe Cartwright could have been the greatest outlaw in the west.  However, he grew up in the right family and learned to use his powers for good.  That was especially important in the life of his oldest brother a short time after Adam returned home from college.
Rated: T Word Count:  9020

Summary: Joe asks a question about Christmas that leads Adam to tell a story about coming West, and then there are more stories about Christmas with Marie and Elizabeth.
Rating: PG  Word Count: 5,126

Summary: This is a series featuring Adam but with significant roles played by Hoss, Joe, and Ben. Each story can stand alone, but features the same OCs and they tell a progressive story as well.–On Borrowed Time— There are conflicting accounts of what happened in a gunfight, and the family of the man killed won’t believe Adam. –On the Run— about five years later, Adam faces accusations and a tragic loss, and has to flee.   –On Edge— Adam and Elaine get to know each other but it’s complicated by Elaine’s disapproving father, and court fights too. –On Top of the Mountain— There are ups and downs in Adam’s romance and Hoss gets to be romantic too.
Rating: T  Word count: 111,885

Summary: The celebration is held in the true spirit of the holiday as proclaimed by President Lincoln, but there is melancholy too.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,692

Summary: the brothers break through the usual limits to have spring adventures and forget winter doldrums by visiting those they met in Springtime.
Rating: PG  Word count: 9,940

Summary: It’s always a question as to how to commemorate the birthdays of those one has lost. For the Cartwrights, those days were days to celebrate and remember the best of each loved one no longer with them. Then they faced the most devastating loss of all, and the tradition seemed inadequate.
PG  Word count = 3,601

Summary: There are many ways of believing whether it is in the spirits of Halloween, in Santa, in promises and dreams, or in each other. The story is about how believing has an impact on the Cartwright family.
Rating: PG  Word count: 3,581

Summary: Oration on My Life’s Work – one of the Cartwrights in the mode of a self-appointed avenging angel and working hard to make sure no one knows his choice of a second job.
Old Stage Station –  otherworldly goings-on for Joe and Adam in an eerie and chilling mystery that almost sends one brother home without the other. 
On Living the Nightmare – Ben has trouble accepting his sons’ choices for wives; numerous references to ladies featured in Bonanza episodes.
rating = T  word count = 4,874

Summary: After a tragedy, who died, and who is still living? How did some survive? What makes a hero?
Rating: T  Word count: 2,415

Summary: There’s a mysterious spooky light, a mesmerized older brother, a worried Hoss who has heard some stories from Hop Sing that give him reason to worry, and a bad situation that Ben has to handle. 
rating: T  word count: 2185