Category: Adam Cartwright
Stories that focus on Adam Cartwright
Christmas Angel (by wx4rmk)
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
The Letter (by Annie K. Cowgirl)
Summary: Written for Day 3 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 907
Reunion – Part 2 (by Questfan)
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
A Man for Breakfast (by AC1830)
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
Scars That Never Fade (by HarpistforHim)
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
Halloween of the Heart (by SJR Cartwright)
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
The Wilderness (by HarpistforHim)
Summary: During the intense first day of the Battle of the Wilderness, Adam finds himself staring down his youngest brother, someone he had hoped to heaven he’d never meet on the battlefield. A terrible day only gets worse when Adam realizes he and Joe aren’t wearing matching uniforms. Part one of the Allegiance Series.
Rating: G Word Count: 2197
Part of The Allegience Series, links to all stories included within.
Believe In Love – He Rode Back To Her (by BettyHT)
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
Half-Truths and Omissions (by BettyHT)
Summary: in the last story in the series, Belle and Adam further develop their relationship, but most of the story is the mystery of Ben’s illness and how his sons react to it.
Rating: PG Word count: 6,650
Part of the Truth Series, links to all stories included within
While There’s Still Time (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam gets some bad news but decides to use those circumstances to do a good deed. That whole situation turns out to be far more complicated and dangerous than he had imagined until it affects his whole family.
Rating: T Word count: 18,031
Adrielle (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Adam is living and working in Paris during the World Exhibition of 1867. He meets a young flower vendor and is immediately smitten. The story is based on the Louis Marie De Schryver painting, La Rue Du Havre. A serial writing challenge done in short chapters. The chapter titles are in alphabetical order.
Rating: T WC:34378
For the Love of Maggie Series, links to all stories included within.
Not Guilty: Part Two, Justice Delayed (by BettyHT)
Summary: After more than five years since Adam was forced to leave, his family has a lot of questions, but it will take time and some luck to get the answers they want, and then they may find they don’t like all the answers either.
Rating: T Word Count: 41,355
Part of the Not Guilt Series, links to all stories included within
Not Guilty: Part Three, Moving Forward (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam gets involved in two cases for the government, but his new career leads to his father having some very bad luck. The whole family has to come together to resolve the issues.
Rating – T Word count – 15,685
Part of the Not Guilty Series, links to all stories included within
Not Guilty: Part One, Justice Denied (by BettyHT)
Summary: Joe makes a serious mistake and Adam agrees to help him fix things only to find that he puts himself into a greater problem as others make too many mistakes as well. Adam needs more help than Joe did, but that help is slow in arriving.
Rating: T Word count: 35,315
Part of The Not Guilty Series, links to all stories included within
The Trial of Jessica Hardy #3 – The Empty Casket (by Missjudy)
Summary: The final story of the trilogy of stories: Trial of Jessica Hardy, Buried Alive, and now, The Empty Casket. The first two stories told of Adam’s disappearance after being taken as a hostage by a woman bank robber, and then his return after months spent drugged in a mental hospital. When Buried Alive ended, Adam had left Carson City following a frosty reunion with his family that had left him feeling that for everyone’s sake, he should have died as Jessica Hardy, AKA Leslie Richter, meant for him to do. This story picks up in San Francisco, where he has gone, hoping to find something about himself that is worth saving. He meets someone who just might understand what he’s feeling, and recognize what he’s planning to do. Can this other “man in black” save Adam from himself?
Rating: K+
Word Count: 28,000
Part of The Trial of Jessica Hardy Series, links to all stories included within
