Category: Ben / Joe
Stories centered on Joe and Ben
Going Home (by mcfair_58)
Summary: It is 1847 and such a winter had never been seen! Snowstorms and squalls. Sleet and ice. Winds so ferocious they built drifts high as a man. Driven by a need to escape the memory of his late wife, Ben Cartwright ventures out into a frozen landscape and becomes lost. As he seeks a way to survive, he has no way of knowing that another member of the family has become lost as well. Will the killer snow claim two Cartwright lives?
Rated PG
Word count 20,990
Cookie Escapade (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a prequel in which Little Joe should learn some lessons about telling the truth and doing what is right, but does he? Sadly, Little Joe has a habit of only learning the hard way.
Rating: PG Word Count: 1,535
Letters and Lessons (by BettyHT)
Summary: In this prequel story, Little Joe is growing up, and one thing Ben strives to teach him is empathy and the importance of family.
Rating: PG Word count: 1.048
Picnics (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Joe is quite the talker especially when it involves finding a way to avoid work, but it is more difficult when his father is right there. He’s clever enough though to find a way that even his father appreciates.
Rating: PG Word Count: 1321
From Ashes (by PSW)
Summary: Healing is hard, and takes its own path. A post-Hoss, post-Alice story.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 23,500
Her Angel Arms (McFair_58)
For all the mothers out there who give us so much.
An innocent comment by the reverend at church sends 40 year old Ben Cartwright on a journey into his young son’s hearts.
Rated: G
Word count: 3427
Tears of Growing Up #3 – Learning to Trust, One Last Time (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: It’s never easy seeing your youngest taking another step towards manhood.
Rating: G (715 words)
Tears of Growing Up Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Let Me Tell You About Phaedra (by ACSPeej)
Summary: It’s an adventure on a trip to Senora, Arizona for Ben and Joe.
Rating: T 53,420 words
Santa’s Helpers (by Patina)
Summary: An intruder takes advantage of an innocent little boy in order to rob the Ponderosa.
Rated K+
WC=2328
No Love Without Forgiveness, No Forgiveness without Love (by pbeaking)
Summary: Have you ever wanted something so badly that you’d do anything to get it? Let’s just say Little Joe and his best friend Mitch find out the hard way that sometimes finders keepers end up being finders weepers. Contains reference to corporal punishment.
Rating: K+ (4,485 words)
None Were The Lovingest (by DJK)
Summary: Ben and Little Joe discuss his father’s three wives.
Rated: K Word count: 658
Last Chance (by Cheaux)
Summary: Joe gambles with his life to give his Pa something precious.
Rated: K WC 900
Art of Forgiveness (by Destiny Adams)
Summary: Originally written for a Chaps and Spurs Challenge, now slightly revised. Joe did it again, but was it really so bad?
Rated: K (1,145 words)
Blink of an Eye (by Cheaux)
Missing scene from Season 7’s “The Fighters” written by Robert L. Goodwin
Rating: T Word Count: 792
How To Say Goodbye (by JoeC)
Summary: There comes a time when we need to say goodbye to a beloved person
Rating: K+ WC 1300
Warnings: Character death