Summary: Adam and his small grandson make some discoveries about what really matters in life.

Rating:  K   (1,600 words)

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

Summary:  Hoss turns to a trusted friend for advice when Adam is due home from College.  

Rating: G  (1,245 words)

Summary:  Written for the Thinking Man Challenge.  Adam’s education gets him into a dangerous situation when bank robbers decide he’s the man they need to send into a mine and retrieve their loot from a bank robbery.  One big problem, the mine tunnel is partially collapsed from an earthquake.  

rating = PG    WC = 3865

Summary:  After some problems at home, Adam sets off on what his father expects to be a one or two year absence, but circumstances take Adam to many countries and eventually to refuge far from home for years before it is safe for him to return.  However there’s danger at home as well.  

Rating = T   WC = 102,217

Summary:  I have been fascinated by the characters of Cora and Enos Milford, the affectionate, bickering couple in “The Hayburner”. Clearly they are old friends of the Cartwrights, have great affection for them and knew Adam, Hoss and Joe as boys. I wondered how the Milfords and the Cartwrights might have first met and came up with this story, “It all Started with a Haircut” .

Rating:  K  (6,835 words)

Summary:  Inspired by The Mother of All Challenges, to write a story featuring one or more of the Cartwrights in any time period (prequel, season 1-14, sequel, AU),  in which Virginia City is an integral part of the tale.  

Rating:  K  (4,030 words)

This is my story.

Virginia City, Nevada — Home of the Comstock Lode.   A place where things happen twenty-four hours a day. Thirty thousand people called it home at the peak of the gold and silver rush. A boom town!

Summary:  The story starts with a horse race as the three Cartwright brothers take on a challenge, but the story continues with romances, tragedy, heartache, an abduction that takes Adam to Australia, and troubles at home until all the issues can be resolved.  There are three parts to the story with Four Corners, Dreams, and Turbulence and Trouble.

Rating = T    WC = 81,104

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

Summary:  Adam suffers the consequences of a man trying to get revenge on Joe, but it’s the secrets that are revealed in the aftermath of that which cause Adam to temporarily leave the Ponderosa to heal emotionally as well as physically. His sojourn leads him to discoveries and opportunities as well as danger that helps him understand what happened.

Rating = T  WC = 29,938

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

Summary:  The Cartwrights have a troublesome dispute on their hands and Adam has a new love interest, both of which, influence the day to day happenings of the entire family as they live and work together on the Ponderosa.  

Rating: T  Word Count: 91,250

Summary: Rose McNair gives Dan De Quille an interview after Virginia City’s great fire. A “What Happened Elsewhere” for The Night Virginia City Died.

Rated: K WC:2500

Summary:  This is a story told by the Cartwright family, each telling his part as it unfolds. This is a story of revenge, mystery, and family.

Word Count: 6507  Rating: K+

Summary:  Adam’s son Garrett finds that he has some experiences much like his father had as a youth, and Adam can help him with those because of it. The story follows the Never Too Late To Say You’re Sorry story, and has the same OCs.  

WC =15,282  rating = T

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

Summary: A WHN for Five Sundowns to Sunup / WHL for Death at Dawn story.

Rating:  K  (2,185 words)

Summary: Little Joe learns a lesson the hard way.

Rating: K+  Word Count: 1, 371

Summary: When Adam’s favorite professor pays him a visit, another visitor hides in the shadows, intent on proving a skewed theory about savagery.

(Rated: T, Word count: 27,000)