Category: Adam Cartwright
Stories that focus on Adam Cartwright
Responsibilities (by MeiraB)
Synopsis: A brief epilogue to Loss and Legacy, which attempts to clarify Adam’s reasons for his life choices.
Rating: G
Words: 1400
Part of Legacy Series, links included within
The Spanish Bride (by Jenny G)
Summary: Adam takes an unexpected horse buying trip to Mexico. He finds an old friend, a luxurious hacienda, fine horses, a beautiful senorita and more trouble than a man ever wants to see.
Rating: PG-13. Implied sex and some violence. (101,150 words)
Taken on Trust (by Diana G)
Summary: Caught between ‘a rock and a hard place’, Adam is forced to help rustle a Ponderosa herd.
Rating: T (16,885 Words)
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
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
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
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
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
The Waif (by Lyn Robinson)
Summary: Adam finds his curiosity leads him into an unexpected commitment
Rating: G (15,925 words)
Sweet Caroline (by VickiC.)
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)
The Solitary Way (by VickiC.)
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)
Journey to Heartbreak aka For the Love of Jamie (by Diana G)
Summary: Adam befriends a young woman and her son.
Rating: G (26,680 words)
Days of Discovery Series, links to all stories within the series are included.