Summary:  The Cartwright brothers take a Christmas trip?
Rating:  G  1,725 words

Written for the Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary: Christmas candles, a cranky baby, and a neglected Cartwright all add up to one special Christmas. 
Rating:  G    2,420 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary: How might a change in an episode early in the canon of Bonanza, change the episodes that followed? This is a collection of stories to show how life in the Cartwright family and in Virginia City would reflect the difference, while you try to figure what happened.

Rating: PG     Word Count: 28534

Summary: Something evil lurks in a cornfield on the Ponderosa and unleashes terror on the Cartwright family. What is it?
Rated T Wordcount: 8, 070

Canon refers to Ben leaving the Ponderosa for a time after Marie’s death. This story presents a possibility for how Adam managed during this time. (This is an Old Ned story.)

This is a compilation of five vignettes that take place on Ben Cartwright’s trip West.
Rating: K+ Words: 2274

Summary: A tribute from Adam, Hoss and Joe for Father’s Day (transcribed by Puchi Ann)

Rating: K

Word Count: 88

Summary: Three men, imprisoned in the Virginia City Jail, have been charged with committing murder and other brutal acts of cruelty. According to the scuttlebutt, the attorney representing them is determined to see his clients acquitted, and will stop at nothing to make it so.  Gossip, lurid speculation, and rumor stoke the fear, anger and complete bewilderment of Virginia City’s citizens. leading to the unthinkable, catching Ben, Adam, and Hoss up in the midst of the turmoil.  Sequel to Mark of Kane.
T
Word Count: 39,168

Early one morning, Ben finds a baby left at the kitchen door of the Cartwrights’ home. In Sacramento, meanwhile, Adam and his family receive devastating news.
MA/R  For language, violence, and graphic descriptions of physical abuse of a minor
WC  91,159
Bloodlines Series

Summary: This prequel is set a few weeks before Adam’s departure for school.  A simple request to pick up Little Joe from a neighbor’s home where the little boy is playing, ends up bringing Adam into a world of confusion over what’s going on with the wife of his father’s oldest friend.

This is the first of 2 prequels, the first taking place in the weeks before Adam left for college, and the second story showing his return. Both take a fun, yet serious look at how the Cartwright family faces problems.

Rating: K    Word Count:  26419

This is a collection of vignettes written for some pinecone challenges in 2012.  Each challenge was generated by the first line of a novel.  The quote and source are used to title each piece.  They have a broad range of themes, and some are AU. 

Summary:  A special and personal poem about what Bonanza means to me.

Rated G          Wordcount: 478

Summary:  Faced with the trials of heart failure, young Adam Cartwright embarks on a journey of courage and resilience, drawing on the memories of the mother he never knew and the solidarity of his loving family to confront his limitations and cherish every moment of life. Rating:  K+ Word Count:…

Summary:  It might be white outside, but inside?  Being a day like no other, was an understatement; and long after the sun had set Ben Cartwright was almost ready to declare that all three of his sons would be receiving lumps of coal in their Christmas stockings.
Rating: G
Words: 2,350
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar.

Summary: When Hoss needs a romantic poem, he and Joe search Adam’s room where they find something wondrous that truly brings magic to Christmas.
Rating:  G
Words: 4,806
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary:  Jamie tries to learn more about his oldest new brother, but gets something unexpected in the end!:
Rating:  G
Words:  1,800
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary:  Christmastime on the Ponderosa with a young Cartwright family.
Rating:  G
Words:  8,620
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary:  Adam and Joe cope with trouble.

Rating: T Word Count:  6,197

Summary: After suffering a tragic loss Ben learns true friends are really family.

Rating: K+ Word Count: 822

Summary:  Little Joe isn’t the only Cartwright who can confound Dr. Martin.
Rating:  G  (1,300 words)
Written for the 2022 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary: Hoot tries to teach the Cartwrights a lesson but learns more than he ever expected. This is a prequel Christmas story.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2,295

The Cartwright brothers – you know them, you love them, but let’s face it – after all these years things have gotten pretty predictable around the Ponderosa. It’s the same old story in a nutshell…

Rating: G WC: 563

Summary: When Adam meets Presha, sparks fly but interest grows too setting off a chain of events that affect both Adam and Hoss. The story was posted on another site as two stories that overlapped: Christmas Comes Only Once a Year, and Baby Blues. Those stories have been combined, edited, and expanded slightly.
Rating: T  Word count: 52,542

Summary: Sometimes one has to face the past in order to move forward. Even with help, that can be a trap if the people in your past aren’t ready to move on too.  The first story is an expansion of the January 1, 2023 Bonanza Brand Pinecone. The second story tells more of the early struggles of the family and what resulted from those.
Rating: PG  Word count: 6,053

Summary: This is a series that starts with an unusual story –Never To Submit Or Yield is a story of struggle and overcoming great difficulties and how and why Adam left the Ponderosa.  –Awake, Arise, Or Be Forever Fallen is a story of Adam falling in love with a woman who has lived through similar trauma. As their relationship develops, clues to the conspiracy begin to emerge. –Torn tells of how Adam is pressured by his family to go on a cattle drive to reestablish his role, but Joe has to adjust too so there is some friction, and there is trouble from others who want to take advantage of the situation.   Luckily, Candy is there to help out.–Melinda Returns is a short story in which she tries to manipulate things with Grace who is about to deliver her child. There is closure. –Epilogue. 
Rating: T  Word count: 50,040

Summary: Joe is surprised at the observations that Candy has about Adam’s return to the family, but a string of events shows that Candy is correct even though there is far more going on than he guessed too.
Rating: T  Word count: 17,498

Summary: In the middle of a busy Christmas morning, Adam receives a request from Roy Coffee to help him investigate a possible crime in Virginia City. The case intrigues him as he follows the clues along with Roy and Paul Martin, and has a moment of agony as he begins to see the truth. In the midst of the his discoveries he receives a few unexpected reminders of the true meaning of Christmas, and is able to offer the gift of restoration.

Rating: K

Word Count: 10649

Summary:   At last the long awaited cattle station is being built on Ponderosa land close to Carson City.   It seems a good idea at the time and the Cartwrights are anticipating big things as a result…until their neighbouring rancher decides to put a stop to the whole thing.  But as the Cartwrights find out ..there is a lot more involved than the building of a cattle station 
Rating:  PG
Word Count:  168,941
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