Category: Action/Adventure
Born For Adversity (by BettyHT)
Summary: There’s lots of shocking trouble for Adam right from the start, but there is also a plan for revenge, subterfuge, false identities, fraud, financial difficulties for Ben and the Ponderosa, stunning developments for the family to absorb, and then a climatic confrontation between two villainous siblings and the Cartwright family.
rating = T (WC = 40,705)
Forsaking Wild Oats (by Childstar)
Written especially for Delci Marie Barkley at her request.
Rating: T (32,430 words)
Thenceforward and Forever Free – Book 3 of A HOUSE UNITED series (by pulitzer2016)
Summary: As 1861 draws to a close, the Cartwrights enjoy their first Christmas with Josie on the Ponderosa. But 1862 brings a number of challenges, from Adam disappearing in the desert to an influenza epidemic that threatens the entire town. Meanwhile, Simon Croft continues to express romantic interest in Josie, much to Adam’s consternation. Parts inspired by “The Crucible.”
Rating: T Word Count: 50,379
A House United Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Charity Series #6 — Sticks and Stones (by BettyHT)
Summary: It’s Adam and Charity again but five years later. Adam’s son and Hoss’ son have a new playmate who has a secret, and it’s one that will cause a major change in the Cartwrights’ lives and in his. There are other secrets that are revealed as the story unfolds, and each one requires a response.
Rating = T WC = 31,520
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Charity Series #5 — Dreams and Challenges (by BettyHT)
Summary: Now that Adam and Charity are married, they face challenges in work and in family relationships. They have dreams of a family and a home too, and they have to adjust those dreams to the reality of events over which they have no control.
rating = T WC = 22,140
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Charity Series #4 — Let’s Do It! (by BettyHT)
Summary: There are obstacles to Adam and Charity getting married, but Adam finds a solution after overcoming those problems and seeing no other way to calm the waters. There is a budding romance for Hoss too as the story develops.
rating = T WC = 15,839
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Crossing the Rubicon . . . Again (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Little Joe is asked to fill in again as Sheriff of Rubicon, but surely nothing could go wrong this time.
Rating: K+ (2794 words)
Three By One (by BettyHT)
Summary: It’s an Adam returns story, and he brings two with him. He brings a bit of trouble too and some changes, but he’s got the family on his side, well, after some issues from the past that have to get cleared away first.
WC = 13577 rating = T
And the War Came – Book 2 of A HOUSE UNITED series (by Pulitzer2016)
Summary: The Civil War has broken out, and Adam travels east to attend his cousin Josie’s graduation from medical school. To get away from the danger of the war, Josie returns to the Ponderosa with Adam, where she must learn to fit in to a new way of life as she struggles to establish herself as a doctor.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 40,979
A House United Series, links to stories within the series are included.
The Misadventures of Little Joe Cartwright ~ Book I (by bahj)
Summary: After going into town to buy a present for Hoss, Little Joe runs into a mysterious stranger with a bag of golden coins.
Rating: T Word count: 29698
Part of the Misadventure Series, links to all stories included within.
Home is the Sailor #2 – The Iron Horsemen (by Krystyna)
Summary : It is the winter of 1877 and two of Adam and Olivia’s children are lost during the blizzards. This story is about the iron like qualities the Cartwrights need in order to find a child.
Rating: K+ (182,450)
Home is the Sailor Series, links to stories within the series are included.
The Razor’s Edge [aka A Close Shave] (by freyakendra)
Summary: At thirteen, Joe decides to practice shaving, only to discover that growing up isn’t just about growing whiskers. (This story introduces an OC named Jackson Cooper, aka Coop.)
(Word Count: 4500; Rating: K)
Carson City Earthquake (by Lyn Robinson)
Summary: On a horse buying trip the brothers experience, a Carson City Earthquake
Rating: K (5,600 words)
Pride and Ponderosa (by Sandspur)
Summary: What happens when Jane Austen’s ultimate chick-fic, “Pride & Prejudice,” crosses into the burly, macho, he-man world of Bonanza? Confusion? Kidnappings? Crossover characters from other series like “Bronco” and “the Big Valley”? Anything can happen—and anything does!
Rating: T. Totally clean, but one description of an unseemly death. WC 86,200
Good Intentions (by BettyHT)
Summary: A prequel story with LJ at thirteen, Hoss at nineteen, and Adam at twenty-five. In the first part, Little Joe decides to be good for three weeks as a gift to his father which sets off a chain of events while Adam decides to ride a couple of difficult horses that sets off a different chain of events. Everything comes together as does the family in time for a Christmas celebration. The second part of the story is a WHB for The Quality of Mercy and features Seth in a prominent role.
rating = T (26,563)