Category: Family
Stories that focus on the entire family
More Than Money (by Diana G)
Summary: Adam is determined to protect the payroll, but loses something more precious.
Rating: T (33,500 words)
Home (by Mary S)
Summary: Adam returns home after a long absence and find things quite different than he left them. Rated: G (25, 300 words)
Orenna (by pkmoonshine)
Summary: When Hoss and Stacy get caught in a dangerous winter storm on their way home from a hunting trip, help comes from a strange old woman who claims to have known the family for a very long time.
Rating: T (8,370 words)
Bloodlines Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
The Best Medicine (by Diana G)
Summary: Adam must take desperate measures to get Joe out of his depression.
Rating: G (8,785 words)
The Wedding (by pkmoonshine)
Summary: Adam Cartwright and his wife, Teresa, come to Virginia City to spend the summer with the family, and so that he might stand up for an old friend as best man in what’s shaping up to be “The Wedding Of The Century.” Meanwhile, Roy Coffee has his hands full trying to put a couple of bootleggers out of business and stop an elusive thief in his tracks.
Rating: T (103,190 words)
Bloodlines Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Freedom from Fear (by JennieA)
Summary: The aftermath of Joe’s kidnapping and subsequent rescue.
Rating: R (33,760)
Due to the subject matter contained in this series, the stories are only available via e:mail from the author — ryjennie@comcast.net
Without Malice (by DebbieB)
Summary: Little Joe’s best friend is killed in an unfortunate accident and Joe holds himself responsible. How will he ever overcome his guilt?
Rated G WC 8200
Paying the Price (by Susan G)
Summary: Will it be worth the cost to refuse to sell lumber to a new mine owner?
Rating: T (20,180 words)
Family Men (by Adah)
Synopsis: Observations about the Cartwrights and their unique bonds are made by an old family friend.
Rating: G
Words: 3,100
Decisions #2 – Bad Relations (by KathrynM)
Synopsis: In this sequel to Decisions, Decisions, Cousin Jennifer arrives with a letter from Elizabeth written before Adam’s birth. The message contains a startling revelation.
Rating: PG
Words: 19,090
Part of the Decisions Series, links included within
Journey West (by LoisB)
Synopsis: This is the continuation of my first story, Journey East. It completes the saga of the romance between Meg Prescott and Adam. All the other Cartwrights appear as well. A few items: The incident with the frog is something that Mike Landon used to pull on the set of Little House on the Prairie. I stole it! The song reference in the conclusion is to Love Changes Everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber. If you haven’t heard it sung by Michael Crawford, you don’t know what you’re missing. My time setting is the very late 1860’s.
Rating: R – mature themes
Words: 66,450
Part of Journey Series, links included within
A Cry for Freedom (by JennieA)
Summary: It started with Ben giving Little Joe more responsibility for the Ponderosa. Little did the family realize the course Ben was setting in motion.
Rating: R (65,725 words)
Due to subject matter contained in this series, the stories are only available via e:mail from the author — ryjennie@comcast.net
Greater Love Hath No Man (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Hoss hires a monster of a man, a derelict, to work for them, he has no idea the danger he has put his family into, until it’s too late.
Rated: PG..Contains violent scenes (11,745 words)
The Black Gloves (by Milesky1)
Summary: Answering the burning question, “Why did Joe suddenly start wearing those black gloves?”
Rating: T (850 words)
Be There a Stranger Among Us (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Little Joe returns from a horse sale in Carson City that did not go well for him, his family notices a difference in his personality. Not sure why Joe acts the way he does, his family struggles to understand before Joe winds up destroying himself and his family’s good name.
Rated: PG (20,400 words)

































