Category: Family
Stories that focus on the entire family
The Power of Goodbye (by Jess Cartwright)
Synopsis: Ponderosa Fan-Fic. The Nevada Territory is plagued by a heat wave and the Greene Ranch is hit the hardest when their house catches fire. Margaret withdraws from the town and Hoss is the only one who might be able to help her… if he can only get over his own guilt.
Rating: PG Words: 4,105
The Cartwright Family (by LindaBl)
Synopsis: A cute new song about the Cartwrights
Rating: G Words: 270
Little Joe’s Island (by LindaBl)
Synopsis: Little Joe has another crazy dream. All the Cartwrights and Hop Sing are aboard the Dixie I when it is shipwrecked. [It is a comedy parody which combines Bonanza and Gilligan’s Island]. There’s even a song you can sing along 🙂
Rating: G Words: 1730
The Wizard of POZ meets the Ponderosa (by LindaBl)
Summary: A funny parody of Bonanza and The Wizard of Oz
Rating: G
The Journal (by Texas 2002)
FanFiction written for The Ponderosa (Bonanza prequel)
Summary: An account of the Cartwright family’s trip from Independence, Missouri to the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Rating: G Words: 61,100
Ponderosa # 3 – Just a Day Like Any Other (by Texas2002)
Summary: The title says it all.
Rating: G Words: 8,600
Letters to Inger (by DJK)
Summary: Selected letters from those written by Adam Stoddard Cartwright to Inger Borgstrom Cartwright, deceased
Rating: G (23,775 words)
The Friendship – A Parody (by LissaB)
Summary: What happened after the director yelled cut, or worse yet, what was left on the cutting room floor.
Rating: K+ (1,185 words)
Who? (by DJK)
Summary: A mystery to be answered in your own mind.
Rating: T (1,955 words)
Barbershop Quartet (by JoanS)
Summary: Each of the four Cartwrights has a different slant on an incident to tell the local barber
Rating: G (4,240 words)
Death at Dawn…A Missing Scene (by Gillian)
Summary: This is the missing final scene that I would have liked to see-the one that tied up all the loose ends. A story in 4 voices.
Rating: G (10,090 words)
Topsy Turvy (by DebbieB & JennieA)
Summary: When seventeen year old Joe wakes, the sun is shining bright, the birds are singing and everything is prefect in his world, that is until his bedroom door is pushed opened by a strangle little kid who looks somewhat like his older brother, Hoss. Ben suddenly appears, babe in arms and when his father refers to the infant as Little Adam, Joe realizes that his world has just been turned Topsy Turvy.
Rated: G (9,300 words)
Crystal Ball Predictions (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Adam suddenly inherits a son, Joe is washed away by a flash flood, Ben breaks a leg and Hoss leaves home in search of his missing brother, the Cartwrights begin to wish they had never visited the fortune teller.
Rated: G (32,000 words)
Bloodlines (by pkmoonshine)
Summary: Paris McKenna, an old friend of the Cartwright family, suddenly falls ill on her way to San Francisco and a new job. She reluctantly accepts Ben’s invitation to rest and regain her strength at the Ponderosa. However, she also carries the burden of a devastating secret that could rip the close-knit Cartwright Family to shreds.
Rating MA WC 133,000
Bloodlines Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Topsy Turvy (by JennieA & DebbieB)
Summary: When seventeen year old Joe wakes, the sun is shining bright, the birds are singing and everything is prefect in his world, that is until his bedroom door is pushed opened by a strangle little kid who looks somewhat like his older brother, Hoss. Ben suddenly appears, babe in arms and when his father refers to the infant as Little Adam, Joe realizes that his world has just been turned Topsy Turvy.
Rated: G (9,300 words)
