Category: Drama
Something About Amy (by JC)
Summary: Tennyson said, “It’s better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” What would Joe Cartwright say? (WHI/WHN for The Truckee Strip and part of the Ties That Bind AU series)
Rating K+ (1782 words)
Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Shadows of Friendship (by AC1830)
Summary: In The Paiute War, Adam and Young Wolf, son of Chief Winnemucca, were once friends. What made Young Wolf end his friendship with Adam, although Winnemucca continues it with Ben and Adam?
Rating – T, Word Count – 4799
The Burden Of The Oath (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Hoss struggles with how to help Doc Martin in the aftermath of the epidemic and Julia’s Bulette’s death. A WHN for The Julia Bulette Story.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 1493
Keep Your Eyes on the Sun (by McFair_58)
Summary: Nearly a year after Little Joe was kidnapped by Wade Bosh a new threat arises born of an old pain. Can the Cartwrights survive being drawn into the tangled web woven by the choices Rosey O’Rourke made long ago?
Rating: T (69,970 words)
Blood and Bread Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Ties That Bind (by JC)
Summary: An exploration of perhaps the most controversial subject in Bonanza fanfiction — what if Ben and Marie also had a daughter? But this is not a story about a Cartwright sister. Though viewed through a different lens, it’s a story about a family we all know and love, whose relationships are tested and reaffirmed in the face of the inevitable.
Rating: K+ (27,784 words)
Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Before the Hanging (by Sibylle)
Summary: Just how much tension can a man go through in a mere four hours? Find out in this look at “Death at Dawn.”
Rated: T Word Count: 3,231
All Lies and Jests (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A conversation between brothers returns Ben to a time in the past.
Rating: T Word Count: 4,135
Advice (by Belle)
Summary: Advice sought and given, but why bother.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 5,764
Aunt Agnes Series, links to stories within the series are included.
The Cup of Bitterness (by Questfan)
Summary: After being cleared for shooting Zach Crenshaw in self-defense, Joe tried to square things with Zach’s father. While he thought he was helping Amos Crenshaw to dig a well, Amos had other plans for that hole. A WHI for “The Wormwood Cup.”
Word Count: 9,689 Rating: T
Sunrise (by Sierra Girl)
Summary: When Adam, Hoss and Little Joe sneak out in the early hours for Adam’s last childhood adventure, their father’s reaction is not what they expect. A prequel set in the months before Adam leaves for college.
Rating: K Word Count: 3,527
More Than a Memory (by JC)
Summary: Adam re-assesses his life in the aftermath of his broken engagement to Laura Dayton. (WHB and WHN for “Triangle”, written for the 2017 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament)
Rating: T Word Count: 4,221
More than a Memory Series, links to all stories included within.
Lucky Streak (by faust)
Summary: Adam and Joe are caught in a cave in. Adam is not amused.
3,937 words, rated K+
Emma (by Juanita)
Summary: A letter from a far away island makes Ben remember an old love.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 1,636
When Spring Comes Again (by Foreverfree)
Summary: Two years ago, the girl Joe Cartwright loved moved away and married another man without an explanation or even a goodbye. Now she is back – as a young widow.
Rating: T Word Count: 5,543
Always (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: The days and weeks after one of the worst times on the Ponderosa culminates in a moment between father and son. What should have happened.
Rating: G (625 words)
Remembering Hoss Series, links to stories within the series are included.
