Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
The Stagecoach Robbery (by Sibylle)
Summary: Adam wonders what his brothers are doing downstairs in the big room ….
Rated: K+ (595 words)
Adam Vignette Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Ben and Adam on the Road (by Sibylle)
Summary: WHB Inger My Love Even Ben wasn´t always the perfect father.
Rated: K WC 1250
Skipping Stones (by pbeaking)
Summary: Life is like skipping stones, Sometimes you sail freely through it, Sometimes you bump and recover and Sometimes you simply falter. This story highlights all the Cartwrights on their journey through life and how they influence each other.
Rating: K+ WC 3900
First Love (by faust)
Adam’s first love is different from what one would expect – or is it?
720 words, rated K
Posies (by pbeaking)
Summary: Ben has just found the very spot he wants to call home. Can he look past his fear and build his dream into a reality?
Rating: K 650
The History Essay (by Patina)
Rating: K
Word Count=3554
Summary: Little Joe has to write an essay on George Washington.
The Ginger Thief (by Shakespeare Cowgirl)
Summary: A gingerbread house + A thief = One very angry Little Joe!
Rated: K+ (4,555 words)
A Stop Along the Way (by bahj)
Summary: Sometimes, it’s the littlest things in the smallest places that make the biggest impact. To young Adam Cartwright, Galesburg, Ill. is just another stop on the long journey West, but this time his life will be changed forever.
Rating: K (Word count: 42,700)
Captain Joe (by frasrgrl)
Summary: This story is in response to November’s Chaps and Spurs Challenge. Joe on the high seas.
Word Count: 546 Rated: K
Home Alone (by Sibylle)
Summary: Hoss and Joe alone at home. A prequel
Rated: K WC 600
Little Joe Cartwright, Thief (by pbeaking)
Summary: Little Joe finds himself in trouble when he is caught stealing from the mercantile. There’s no denying that he did do it, but why? Now he must face his father and explain his actions. This was my first story ever. Warning: it does contain corporal punishment.
Rating: T WC 1900
All Through the Night (by bahj)
Summary: Left alone once again to pick up the pieces, Ben struggles to move forward after Marie’s death, and finds comfort in the words to an old song.
Rating K (1050 words)
On Butterfly Wings (by Krystyna)
Summary: This is a little story about a little boy who never knew his Mama but loves her and when he overhears some gossip he mistakenly thinks his Mama is alive after all.
Rated: K+ (21,150 words)
Hoss Defined (by bahj)
Summary: You’ll find it under “H” in the dictionary :0)
Rated: Family Friendly / Word count: 1140
Pa’s Best Man (by Visage)
Summary: Just a little unanswered scene (in my humble opinion) from ‘Inger, My Love.’ After Ben proposes to Inger in the street they both go off in the opposite direction of the boarding house forgetting all about poor Adam! (Which they seem to do a lot in this episode…) This is my attempt to fix that.
Rating: K WC 2900
