Summary: Adam talks Ben into making a trade with Chief Winnemucca. The trade isn’t your average deal, the Chief has a redheaded white girl and he wants a few head of cattle for her. Adam takes full responsibility for the girl and soon finds out he might have gotten himself in deeper than he expected.

Rating: T

Word Count: 21,487
Part of Romancing the Ponderosa Series, links to the stories included within.

Summary: Adam fails in a task that haunts him, but the aftermath is haunting to everyone because no one can understand what happens next. 
PG 2,128

Summary: Adam meets a man by coincidence on several trips, but eventually, it is by design and leads to a new direction in his life.
Rating: T  Word count: 21,713

Summary: In a noble deed, Joe talks Adam into the annual kissing booth not knowing what will result but hoping for the best.
Rating: PG Word count: 5,153

Summary: The story is set five years later than A Fight You Do Not Want, and Adam has to recover from a tragedy and find a way to move his life forward.  He has made some terrible mistakes in doing that and has to figure out how to make his life better. 
Rating T and Word count 28,726
Part of the Fight and Trouble Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  A light drama with quite a bit of humor in the last chapters, the story focus is on Adam but all members of the family as well as Jamie and Candy play significant roles in the telling of this story. There are two OCs too who are necessary to move the story forward. There is a Part 2 which is a short follow-up story.
Rating: T  Word count: 20,302

Summary:  Seeing injustice, Adam has to act, but his actions and the consequences from them pull his family into that quest too.  In the end, all of them make choices knowing the risks involved.
Rating: T  Word count: 14,366

Summary: Certain hurts never heal and some scars never truly fade. Adam is aware of this now, however, simply being aware doesn’t make moving forward any easier. Even a seemingly normal trip home with his brother blisters the scars that he thought were healing. A WHN for The Crucible.
Word Count: 1,949  Rating: G
Part of the Scars Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary: Just when Adam thought the first Christmas without his wife couldn’t be bleaker, something magical happens.
Written for day 19 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count:  1155

Summary:  Written for Day 3 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count:  907

Summary: Adam is facing another Christmas a very long way from home and family.  Can Little Joe grant his Christmas wish?
Written for Day 2 of the 2021 Advent Calendar
Rating:  G  Words:  2850

Summary: Time had passed since Eastgate, though perhaps not enough. One year after the events of The Crucible, Adam finds that certain hurts never heal, and some scars never truly fade. A WHN/Later for The Crucible.
Rating: G  Word Count: 1,173

Summary: When a pistol-packing stranger starts asking questions about a Cartwright the moment he hits town, Sam, the bartender, knows trouble’s bound to follow.    

WC = 2093, Rating = T

Summary: It’s Halloween night.  Things happen.  Some things are special.  And some are very special. Share this night with a woman in love and will soon have heart’s desire come true.  Alternative Universe. Written for the 2021 Bonanza Brand Boonanza Challenge.
Rating: T Word Count: 1430

Summary: This is both an AU and a WHI for The Search providing an alternate ending for the episode.  The first part of the story is directly from the episode and then the story continues with new material.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2405