Category: Adam / Joe
Stories centering on Adam and Joe.
East, West: Home’s Best–The Westerners (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: To help Adam’s friend George, Little Joe has impulsively boarded a ship for Boston. Now it’s up to Adam to chase him down and bring him home.
Rating: K (97,504 words)
Links to the stories in this series are included within.
Let’s Stay Together (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: A thunderstorm brings two brothers together. Pre-series story.
Rating: K
Word count: 897
When the Autumn Moon is Bright (by McFair_58)
Summary: Adam goes looking for his little brother in the woods on All Hallows Eve and finds more than he bargains for.
Word count: 2497
Rated: PG
Almost Lost Two (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: The story is set after Hoss’ death when Adam is reunited with his family, and Adam and Joe have to reconnect which uncovers what could have been a second tragedy for the family. There is limited description of the barbaric practices used in insane asylums in the 1800s in some states.
Rating = T Word Count = 3851
Almost Lost Two Series, links to all stories of this series included.
A Pearl Without Price (by JC)
Summary: Adam Cartwright knows well there are some things in this world that money can’t buy, and other things are priceless. (Part of the Ties That Bind AU series)
Rating: K+ (1,425 words)
Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Revelations (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: It’s December of 1864 and Joe is conscripted, but Adam goes in his place. It is a tumultuous ten months and that scripture reading that seemed so ominous seems to come true. Chapter 1 is my NaNoWriMo novel, Revelations, for 2015 and just barely made the minimum number of words at 53,434 and that’s why there’s that little romance at the end. It’s a little lightness too in a story that has a lot of darkness in it. The second chapter is the sequel, Love Never Ends, with the emphasis on Adam’s adjustment to being at home and being in a romantic relationship that has to develop amid turmoil and threats to his life.
Rating = T (72,932 words)
Shadow Enemy (by DJK)
Summary: After leaving the Ponderosa, Adam has an enlightening encounter with someone from the past.
rating: PG word count: 1,999 warning: mention of corporal punishment
Fallen Angel (by DJK)
Summary: Little Joe’s escapade at Jack Wolf’s Place leads Adam into a serious situation.
Rated Strong T warning: (mature ideas and references but no explicit content, mention of corporal punishment) Word count: 8068
Lucky Eight (by DJK)
Summary: Little Joe puts his lucky number to use, but will it be able to save him from trouble with his pa?
Rated: T warning: references to corporeal punishment. Word count: 5595
Just at Checkers (by DJK)
Summary: Little Joe Cartwright would never cheat, well, not at anything but checkers.
Rated: K= Word count: 2918
Fifty Dollars (by DJK)
Summary: Even if he did take the fifty dollars, Little Joe was not really a thief.
Rated: K+ Word count: 2022
The Left-handed Holster (by DJK)
Summary: Little Joe has a plan, and all he needs is a left-handed holster.
*This story was written as a series of responses to weekly prompts. The prompts were (as best I remember): left-handed holster, on the road west, I wish you would have told me, red herring, and dangerous gamble.
Rated: K+ Word count: 6170
Don’t Speak of That (by DJK)
Summary: Little Joe’s discussion lands him in trouble with his teacher and older brother.
Rated: K+ Word count: 1250
Covering (by DJK)
Summary: Brothers cover for brothers. For Little Joe it is just that simple, for Adam not exactly.
Rated: K Word count: 7990
Stampede (by DJK)
Summary: A cattle drive, a stampede, and one guilty Cartwright make for a simple little tale.
Rated: K+ Word count: 1211