Category: Adam / Joe
Stories centering on Adam and Joe.
Aim True (by southplains)
Summary: A man doesn’t always hit what he’s aiming for—even when he’s a Cartwright. Sometimes all he can do is hold his breath, squeeze the trigger, and just do the best he can.
Key words: SJS, SAS, jail, posse, running from the law, trail, shot, hurt, Joe gets hurt, Adam gets hurt, Adam is arrested
Rated: T WC 22,600
Roping a Dolphin (by lilbuddie)
Summary: Young Joe arrives in Boston to visit Adam but finds instead a confused housekeeper and a large sum of money. Excitedly Joe leaves for an adventure in Paris where he believes Adam awaits him, but his ship sinks off the coast of France… Thus begins a frantic search for Joe in which a world famous writer will be host to all the Cartwrights.
Rated: K+ (34,080 words)
Time To Say Goodbye (by JoanS)
Summary: Joe faces a difficult time in his life.
Rating K (5,985 words)
Time to Let Go Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
My Brother, My Enemy (by JoanS)
Summary: The Civil War causes a rift in the Cartwright family
Rated: T (29,535 words)
This Won’t Work (by Storm)
Summary: This is a little story of what happens when Adam falls for one of Joe’s schemes
Rated: T WC 2900
Connecting (by Dodo)
Summary: Adam and Little Joe’s relationship is tested when Adam returns from College.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 3100
No Such Thing As a Civil War (by Storm)
Summary: I have been mulling this story over for some time and now seems like the right time to post it. What if two brothers left the Ponderosa to fight in the burgeoning war between the States?
Rated: K+ WC 2200
Shelter (by pony)
Summary: Adam and Joe Cartwright are lost in a blizzard. Their only hope … shelter.
Rated: K (1,390 words)
A New Understanding (by Terri)
Summary: A WHN for First Born. Adam is angry at Joe for offering to leave with Clay. Will he be able to reconcile with his youngest brother?
Rated: K+ WC 2200
Alias Adam Cartwright (by Kenda)
Summary: A “what happened next” story based on the aired episode “Alias Joe Cartwright.” What happened after Adam returned home from an extended trip to discover Little Joe’s life almost came to a tragic end at an army fort outside Lode City.
Rated: K+ (16,125 words)
A Thousand Little Things (by Harper)
Summary: Joe and an injured Adam struggle to return a murderer to justice, but someone will do anything to get revenge. A WHN for “The Hanging Posse.”
Rated: K+ (14,695 words)
The Spick and Spanniest Room in the West (by lminzer)
Summary: Joe’s practical joke on his obsessively neat older brother is not as funny as he thought…
Rated: K+ WC 8300
Lucky (by southplains)
Summary: The mysteries of Marie’s background are deeply threaded through the lives of not only Joe but all the Cartwright men; her past is twined among their destinies.
Rated: T WC 7000
Firewater (by lminzer)
Summary: Joe’s foolish choice could cause the Cartwrights to lose everything they have.
Rated: T WC 16,700
Wishing On A Star (by Dodo)
Summary: A few lost hours for Adam and Joe during the episode ‘A Stranger Passed This Way’.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 7494
