Category: Hoss Cartwright
Stories that focus on Hoss Cartwright
The Loft – #3 (by Pat D in PA)
Summary: In the final entry of three short stories, can the Cartwright hayloft provide poor Hoss with the comfort and understanding he needs to deal with the humiliation and shame he feels after being teased by unkind classmates?
Rating: K/G (3,401 words)
Sweet Caroline (By AC1830)
Summary: Love is in the air for one of the Cartwrights. While this older story wasn’t written for Valentine’s Day, I felt it was a good choice to post today. Enjoy!
Rating: G, Word Count: 3618
Tidings of Joy (by PSW)
Summary: From near and far, greetings abound throughout Virginia City.
Rating: G 1,560 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Comfort and Joy (by DJK)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Hoss has a plan. With the help of Little Joe and Old Ned, he may just be able to surprise Pa and Adam this Christmas.
Rating: G 3,900 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
A Question of Beauty (by Heather-Chrysalis)
Summary: A Cat and Hoss teach a hard-hearted boy about love and forgiveness.
This piece started out as a pinecone in August 2023, then I developed it a bit more into a short story.
It was also inspired by a story I heard on the radio long ago.
Rating: T Wordcount: 2,228
The Making of a Man (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: This is an adaption of the Big Valley episode Boy Into Man, S2, E18 written by A. I. Bezzerides
Rating: G, Word Count: 6976
Baa-Baa (by Belle)
Summary: Hoss helps Miss Jones make the annual Christmas pageant “extra special.”
Rating: G
Words: 2,850
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
We Are Merry (by PSW)
Summary: An explanation and WHL for the episode The Iron Butterfly
Rating: G
Words: 420
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: To some, the holidays aren’t always merry, nor bright.
Rating: G
Words: 950
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
Yesterday Series, links included
Boys Will Be Boys (by Michele B)
Summary: Seventeen year old Hoss gets entrusted to collect the payroll from the bank and get home. Simple as that, or is it?
Rating: G, Word Count: 11,298
The Christmas Lamb (by JC)
Summary: In this tongue-in-cheek tale told in rhyme, Hoss makes a surprising discovery in the snow and brings home another stray for Christmas
Rating: G Words 1,000
Written for the 2022 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Haunted (by BettyHT)
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
Leo – Romancing the Ponderosa Book 3 (by millieshepherd)
Summary: Hoss rescues a small girl and after finding out her mother’s a widow and that she doesn’t have a penny to her name, he invites them to stay on the Ponderosa until they can get back on their feet. But then disaster strikes the second day of their stay and the Cartwright family is forever changed.
Rating: T
Word Count: 18,984
The Boy Who Kept Christmas Alive (by Sierra Girl)
Summary: It’s up to on of the boys to keep Christmas alive during a dark time on the Ponderosa.
Written for day 15 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 2989
A Cruel Sort of Kindness (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: “Pa’d once told us boys that a person shouldn’t go into marriage thinking that they could change their spouse; they’d only tear each other apart in the end. It was a piece of advice that I’d nearly forgotten.” A missing scene from the episode The Courtship.
Rating: K+
Word Count: 625
