Category: Drama
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 Simple Favor (By Missjudy)
Summary: A fellow rancher asks Adam to look in on his daughter’s family who lives in California, where Adam is about to travel with a small herd. A problem has arisen is that this daughter has fallen ill while visiting her parents in Virginia City, leaving her husband with a farm to run and two young children to care for, at the busiest time of year. While that seems easy enough, the other information Adam is given about the situation at that home, and the request being made of him, is anything but simple. What he finds on arrival changes, and the roles he must assume to get this family through the frightening times, revisits feelings he’s been contending with for some time.
Rating: K (General)
Word Count: 32505
A Visit (by BettyHT)
Summary: A somewhat metaphysical explanation of what happened to Adam after he left the Ponderosa in a story set in the time period immediately after the death of Hoss. Though the story is about what happened to Adam, Joe is the central character.
Rating: G Word count: 1640
Visits Series, links to all the stories are included within.
Proud Mary (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam helps a friend whose spouse was wrongly convicted and executed. The song was the inspiration but has nothing to do with the story itself. Published elsewhere as Deadly Conspiring in a shorter version.
Rating: PG Word count: 3,183
Home is the Sailor #8 – A New Direction – Changes (by Krystyna)
Summary: President Grant offers Joe Cartwright a job as Head of Security in NYC. Will he take it? Hoss and Adam discover another Eden on a far flung part of the Ponderosa? What do they plan to do with it? And Ben … could this story end with his demise or not?
Rating: PG Word Count: 204,400
Home is the Sailor Series, links to the stories included within.
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
Some Never Learn (by BettyHT)
Summary: A prequel story in which Joe finds there are consequences for telling lies and getting even, and how you pay the price for those sooner or later, but will it change his way of thinking?
Rating: PG Word count: 1,316
Only Six Beers (by BettyHT)
Summary: In this prequel story, a young Hoss gets talked into something that has unpleasant consequences, but they are not the ones he expected.
Rating: PG Word count: 1909
Eagle’s Nest (by Sierras)
Summary: It is spring, and the winter has passed. Five-year-old Little Joe wanders off to find his mama who died a couple of months earlier. This is about the incident that is referenced by Ben to Little Joe in the episode “Between Heaven And Earth” written by Ed Adamson
Rating G
Word Count: 3,184
Frogs and Other Stuff (by BettyHT)
Summary: This the eleventh story in the Traci series. Adam, Hoss, and Joe get a better understanding of the kinds of problems their father faced as they were growing up.
Rating: T
Word Count: 9,755
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A Boy and His Horse (by BettyHT)
Summary: In the tenth story of the Traci series, Adam has to teach his son some difficult lessons when his son finds a valuable horse trapped in some barbed wire.
Rating: T
Word Count: 15,038
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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
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Another Visit (by BettyHT)
Summary: Joe receives a second visit but this one follows the tragedy with Alice and after Joe has returned home. Although the material is still serious in nature, the story is in a much lighter tone than the previous one.
Rating: G Word Count: 1477
Visits Series, links to the stories are 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
The Black Egg (by BettyHT)
Summary: The seventh story in the Traci Series has Adam and Traci trying to find peace by living in Boston but they find that it can’t erase the losses they’ve suffered.
Rating: T
Word Count: 14,151
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