Category: Drama
Unseen Enemy (by Childstar)
Summary: Shortly after Ben Cartwright’s orphaned niece arrives in Virginia City, his neighbors are harassed by an unseen enemy. Is it someone they know, or someone they don’t know?
Rated PG WC 18,000
Sage Advice (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Joe should have remembered his older brother’s advice, when he learns a lesson on how easy it is for women to be his downfall.
Rating: K (950 words)
Contemplation (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam has been gone and the family has lost touch with him. On the eve of Joe’s wedding, each of them will be thinking about their family.
Rating = G WC = 4901
Never Too Late To Say You’re Sorry (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam has been gone from the Ponderosa for ten years. His family knows little of his life but then Ben decides it’s time for at least a visit. There’s a backstory to explain Adam leaving, and flashbacks to explain his personal life, and then the reunion and the results of that as old grievances are aired and new relationships are forged.
Rating = T WC = 34,246
Virginia Series, links to stories within the series are included.
One of a Kind (by MissJudy)
Summary: This “what happens later” story for Thanks for Everything, Friend, picks up after Tom Wilson has been dead for several months and a woman comes to Virginia City with one goal in mind: to kill Adam Cartwright for his role in Tom’s death. She holds Adam at gunpoint as she presses her case against him, and he tries to help her see the truth before she pulls the trigger.
Rating: K Word Count: 9492
Guilt Trap (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam is hurt, Hoss is missing, and Ben faces fraud charges in court. The enemy is quickly identified, but the fight against them is the stuff of nightmares as so much that can go wrong, does go wrong. 4th Adam and Leah story.
rating = T WC = 25309
Leah Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Love Comes Late (by DJK)
Summary: A young Adam has to come to terms with a second stepmother.
Rating: teen and up Warning: contains corporal punishment as part of family discipline Word count: 45,173
The Fire Inside (by freyakendra)
Summary: A surprise assault on the Ponderosa tests twelve-year-old Little Joe’s mettle, and proves he truly is his father’s son.
Word count: 4,470. Rating: T
Waitin’ on Joe (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Joe is given the responsibility of meeting Adam at the freight office with a load of lumber. There’s a lot riding on Joe meeting the deadline, not just for the lumber, but for Joe also.
Rating K+ Word count 5,126
One Plus One (by BettyHT)
Summary: The third Adam and Leah story. Ben wants to drive cattle to Salt Lake City, but Adam and Hoss object creating some tension in the family. Adam is working hard at building a house and trying to keep up with his ranch duties. Meanwhile Leah is facing some unpleasantness with women in town who are talking about her unfavorably.
Rating = T WC 29,984
Leah Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #5 – A Passing Stranger (by GinnyF & Robin)
Summary: This Modern Day Cartwrights story is based on the Bonanza episode “A Stranger Passed this Way”.
Rating: PG (46,475 words)
A Modern Cartwrights Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #5 – A Passing Stranger (by Robin & GinnyF)
Summary: This Modern Day Cartwrights story is based on the Bonanza episode “A Stranger Passed this Way”.
Rating: PG (46,475 words)
A Modern Cartwright Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #4 – Remnants of the Past (by Robin & GinnyF)
Summary: Most of the action in this tale takes place in the spring and summer of 2000. We have included elements and characters who appeared in a few Bonanza episodes including “The Truckee Strip”, “Rich Man Poor Man”, “The Infernal Machine”, “The Countess”, “First Born”, “Denver McKee” and “The Abduction” as well as characters and plot lines we created for our other modern Cartwright tales.
Rating: PG (33,150 words)
A Modern Cartwright Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #4 – Remnants of the Past (by GinnyF & Robin)
Summary: Most of the action in this tale takes place in the spring and summer of 2000. We have included elements and characters who appeared in a few Bonanza episodes including “The Truckee Strip”, “Rich Man Poor Man”, “The Infernal Machine”, “The Countess”, “First Born”, “Denver McKee” and “The Abduction” as well as characters and plot lines we created for our other modern Cartwright tales.
Rating: PG (33,150 words)
A Modern Cartwrights Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Modern Cartwrights Story #2 – Substitutes in the Cemetery (by GinnyF)
Summary: A continuation of A Modern Cartwrights Story.
Rating: PG (1,215 words)
A Modern Cartwrights Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
