Summary: What is there to do on a dark and rainy evening on a fall cattle drive than to tell spooky stories to entertain each other.  Some have humor, some have mystery, and some have a bit of a fright factor.  Some may be familiar but keep reading because there’s more added.  

rating = T  WC = 11,760

Summary:  Fourteen-year-old Adam and his best friend Ross find a bottle of whiskey in the Marquettes’ hayloft and decide to recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine.  What could possibly go wrong?

Rating: T  Word Count: 10,554

Summary:  Adam meets a feisty young woman who thinks that arguing means that you care.  It’s a tempestuous relationship at times, but loyalty, honesty, courage, and love are the cornerstones of the foundation that supports them through many crises.  Although the story is centered on the Adam and Annie relationship, the rest of the family is important to the story and there are changes for all of them too including romances.  

rating = T    word count = 155,709

Summary: Joe is on one of his regular visits to Carrie Prickett when trouble breaks out.

Word count: 2,461 (Rating:  K+)

Summary:  Adam and Tilly go to Europe for the worst honeymoon ever, landing in the middle of a war to end up missing and presumed dead. Meanwhile, Ben, Joe, and Hoss move on with their lives, finding new friends and uncovering strange secrets from the past. 

Rating: T. Violence, character death, attempted rape, etc.   (109,635 words)

The Lilies Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Gone for many years, two men make their way back to the Ponderosa and the family that misses them. They don’t know each other, but they end up in a critical situation that brings them close together and that leads to many changes for all.

Rating = T   WC = 42,544

Cat Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Memories and the hurt over losing Rebecca Kaufman cause  someone else to recount their own loss, in hopes it will help Adam to understand — he is not alone.

Rating:  K+  (4,360 words)

Summary: Former sheriff of Virginia City, Roy Coffee believes that Adam Cartwright is now leading a life of crime and so he decides to do something about it.

Rated: G (7908 words)

The Way Things Are series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Ben has always tried to teach by example, tried to get it through to his sons how he expects them to act. But do they ever listen? A 2015 Camp in the Pines story and a WHN for Quality of Mercy.  Rating:  K+  (1,255 words)

Summary:  What if Hoss had not regained his memory during his overnight stop at the Ponderosa and had, instead, gone off with the Vandervorts?  Could he ever find his way back to himself again and how would the other Cartwrights cope with a loss that might become permanent?   Discover the answers in this WHI version of “A Stranger Passed This Way.”

Rating:  K  Word Count: 26,269

Summary:  The Commodore’s letter of resignation has long been accepted.  Will the mundane life of a rancher be enough?

A story where old foes and new, as well as the past and the present entwine to continue the lives created in the World of Captain Cartwright.

Rating:  K+  (214,200)

Home is the Sailor Series: The saga continues after the conclusion of the Captain Cartwright series.

Home is the Sailor, link to all stories of this series included.

Summary:  The story continues with the characters of the Garden Party and begins with Adam and Joe at odds,  but that doesn’t last as they adjust to the needs of each other and then have to rely on each other to survive in a difficult situation.  They will need their family and others to escape their predicament and return home.  

rating = T  WC  = 24,120

Summary:  Even as Adam and Shiloh celebrate the birth of their first child, a son, trouble is eminent with Hoss still partially blind, Micah fighting for his life and more work than one man or woman can handle.  This is a story about setting limits while raising Cartwrights.

Rating: PG-13  (152, 970 words)  Reader Alert: Some violence, mild adult situations  

To Everything, There is a Season Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  A mistaken identity sends the Cartwrights on a race to rescue one of their own.

Rating: K (6,820 words)

Summary:  Inspired by some Ricky Nelson songs, this story begins with Adam arriving home disillusioned and cynical after many years away. At a party thrown by his father to celebrate his return, he meets someone who begins to change his attitude and will change his future as soon as he allows it.  Adam changes her life too although there are some who do their best to try to prevent the two from being together. 

rating = T    WC = 35,173

Irae Series, links to stories within the series are included.