Category: Family
Stories that focus on the entire family
Follow Your Heart (by ACSPeej)
Summary: A bad winter and their ranch foreman lead the Cartwrights to an unusual set of triplets, and the adventures that follow.”
Rating: T 24,680 words
Dallas (by ACSPeej)
Summary: Is there more to Ben’s attorney when he is charged with murder?
Rating: T 66,300 words
Keep the Home Fires Burning (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Joe’s troubles are addressed as he and Ben leave on an extended trip to spend time together so that Joe can face his losses with the man best able to help him come to terms with them. That leaves Hoss and Adam to run the ranch with Candy’s help. There are plenty of fires to put out, some literal and some figurative, as the three find themselves overworked and stressed by the challenges they face.
Rating = T WC = 24,181
Cat Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Rose Also Has Thorns (by ACSPeej)
Summary: New neighbors involve the Cartwrights in a prickly situation.
Rating: G 27,800 words
Home is the Sailor #1 (by Krystyna)
Summary: The Commodore’s letter of resignation has long been accepted. Will the mundane life of a rancher be enough?
A story where old foes and new, as well as the past and the present entwine to continue the lives created in the World of Captain Cartwright.
Rating: K+ (214,200)
Home is the Sailor Series: The saga continues after the conclusion of the Captain Cartwright series.
Home is the Sailor, link to all stories of this series included.
A Matter of Family (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A mistaken identity sends the Cartwrights on a race to rescue one of their own.
Rating: K (6,820 words)
If Not for Aura Lee (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: What happened after Jean was taken into custody, and Julia’s window went dark.
Rating: T (for mild cursing and references to adult themes) (11,940 words)
First Comes Marriage (by BettyHT)
Summary: It’s a romantic farce as Ben goes to talk to the new school teacher to deliver an invitation to dinner. Things get very complicated very quickly with an unexpected consequence you might expect in a farce. PG 1,701
Battle of the Ponderosa — aka Springtime Chaos (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A plea for help turns into an urgent ride home, and a situation no one foresaw.
Rating: K (1,615 words)
Tears of Growing Up #2 – First Ride (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A companion story for Tears of Growing Up. Two years have passed since Ben and Joe stood outside the corrals watching Adam and their wranglers tame wild horses. Now, it’s finally Joe’s turn.
Rating: K+ (2,305 words)
Tears of Growing Up Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #5 – A Passing Stranger (by GinnyF & Robin)
Summary: This Modern Day Cartwrights story is based on the Bonanza episode “A Stranger Passed this Way”.
Rating: PG (46,475 words)
A Modern Cartwrights Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #5 – A Passing Stranger (by Robin & GinnyF)
Summary: This Modern Day Cartwrights story is based on the Bonanza episode “A Stranger Passed this Way”.
Rating: PG (46,475 words)
A Modern Cartwright Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #4 – Remnants of the Past (by GinnyF & Robin)
Summary: Most of the action in this tale takes place in the spring and summer of 2000. We have included elements and characters who appeared in a few Bonanza episodes including “The Truckee Strip”, “Rich Man Poor Man”, “The Infernal Machine”, “The Countess”, “First Born”, “Denver McKee” and “The Abduction” as well as characters and plot lines we created for our other modern Cartwright tales.
Rating: PG (33,150 words)
A Modern Cartwrights Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #3 – A Quarter’s Worth of Glory: Joe in the Infernal Machine (by Robin)
Summary: Headlines ripped from the daily newspaper in this modern era tale of the Cartwrights.
Rating: K+ (775 word)
A Modern Cartwright Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Stranger in the House (by DebbieB)
Summary: The last time that Little Joe sees his father is when Ben yells at him to jump seconds before their wagon careens down a steep ravine. Little Joe is found badly wounded and brought home to his brothers……..but what about his father? Ben has vanished and Joe’s grief is more life threatening than the injuries he suffered from the accident.
Rated: G (12,440 words)
