Category: Action/Adventure
House Hunt (by BettyHT)
Summary: Retaliation for a prank leads to revenge and a mystery which relieves some of the boredom of a long snowy winter.
Rating: PG Word Count: 3,079
Winter Tales Series, links to all stories included within.
Blindsided (McFair_58)
Summary: Two years after he was bushwhacked, Joe Cartwright returns to Lone Pines and the Griswolds’ spread. Though he intends to stay for one night, circumstances beyond his control compel him to change his plans. Something is terribly wrong, and he is bound and determined to set it right – even if it it costs him his life. Slightly AU in that the eps ‘Forever’ never happened.
Word count: 66, 499
Rated: PG-13
Sunrise (by Sierras)
Summary: Joe comes home shot and fighting for his life. His family and friends hope and pray he will make it.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 10,159
I’ll Wait (by Sierras)
Summary: The Cartwrights discover dangerous and unwanted company hiding out on the Ponderosa.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 7,031
The Cavalry Is Coming (by McFair_58)
Summary: A prequel to ‘A Rose for Lotta’. Ben Cartwright’s meeting with Alpheus Troy and the other mine owners did not go well. They want his timber and he won’t give it to them. The rancher knows Troy will do whatever it takes to keep his mine running, and when he arrives home to find out sixteen-year-old Little Joe is missing, he fears the worst.
Word Count: 19871
Rated PG-13 for typical Western violence
Runaways (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is the ninth story in the Traci series. In this one, three boys from a CA reform school end up hiding on the Ponderosa and the family is caught up in their drama as the trouble that made them run away follows them to Nevada.
Rating: T
Word Count: 20,512
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.
Another Guise (by BettyHT)
Summary: In the eighth story in the Traci Series, there are some who want to disrupt the Ponderosa operations and will use any means to do so. Adam is the first target, but he and Joe wonder who else in the family is in the crosshairs and why. It’s a family drama as they all have to do their best to figure out the mystery villains.
Rating: T
Word Count: 18,955
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within
A Trust Broken and Fixed (by BettyHT)
Summary: In this fifth story in the Traci Series, there’s trouble in relationships, a bank robbery, and an illness which somehow work out to resolve some family issues.
Rating: T
Word Count: 7,623
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.
A New Angle (by BettyHT)
Summary: In the fourth story in the Traci Series, there’s a cattle drive, a worried father-in-law, a romance for Hoss, and Will and Laura come back in a mess which Ben has to help resolve.
Rating: T
Word Count: 12,824
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.
Another Angle (By BettyHT)
Summary: The third story in the Traci series is about Adam’s trip to Arizona to bring his fiance home as his wife, but first he has to resolve trouble with the Apache when the Army is unable to help him.
Rating: T
Word Count: 12,468
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.
Blue Dress Enchantment (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Trying to find shelter from a storm, the Cartwright brothers find another type of excitement at Smoky Joe’s Saloon that almost snares one of them forever.
Rating = T Word Count = 3288
Big Bad John (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Part of the story is a prequel and part is in the canon era as what happened many years earlier spurs Ben to an action which then has to be explained to his younger sons.
Rating: T Word Count: 2555
A Dish Served Cold (by Questfan)
Summary: A somewhat AU What Happened Instead for The First Born. While New Orleans had brought Marie into Ben’s life, it was also a breeding ground for lies, whispered rumours, family disputes and long-held hatred. It has long been said that revenge is a dish that is best served cold.
Rating: T
Word Count: 63028
Stagecoach (by VCLS)
Summary: A call for help and a stagecoach ride into trouble, brings danger for the Cartwright brothers.
Rated: T WC 17,185
It’s a Bad Day, Or Not (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Adam has had some difficulties with women, and it doesn’t seem to stop. When there are more incidents, he’s ready to give up on romance, but sometimes the darkest days can turn out to have unintended consequences that a man can learn to appreciate. Added the second Adam and Monica story, Not Always, to this one. Adam makes some serious mistakes in trying to extricate himself from trouble until he turns to his family for help.
Rating = T Word count = 22,989
It’s a Bad Day, or Not Series, links to all stories included within.