Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
Talking Turkey? (by VickiC.)
Summary: There’s turkey and then there’s turkey. Is it all a distraction and an excuse? Or is it real?
Rating: G (7,300 words)
The Sermon (by VickiC.)
Summary: All the Cartwright boys know you should concentrate on the Sermon in church, but sometimes you can’t help your thoughts wondering.
Rating G (2,800 words)
Missing (by VickiC.)
Summary: Adam reads a letter from Hoss that makes him realise how much he misses his brothers. Hoss and Joe are missing their bossy older brother, he had his uses! Ben is simply worried about his youngest sons who are MISSING!
Rating: G (8,510 words)
Two Hearts, Seventeen Hands (by DebbieB)
Summary: Hoss and Joe rarely argue but this time, the family is torn apart by the riff that has come between sixteen-year-old Joe and twenty-two-year-old Hoss. Hoss is heartbroken and when Joe begs to go away to college, Ben is afraid that the brothers will never find their way back to each other!
Rated G WC 16,000
Veritas (by Deborah)
Summary: This is the story of Adam’s freshman year at Harvard College.
Rating: T (44,500 words)
Adam: The Early Years Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Freedom from Fear (by JennieA)
Summary: The aftermath of Joe’s kidnapping and subsequent rescue.
Rating: R (33,760)
Due to the subject matter contained in this series, the stories are only available via e:mail from the author — ryjennie@comcast.net
Decisions #2 – Bad Relations (by KathrynM)
Synopsis: In this sequel to Decisions, Decisions, Cousin Jennifer arrives with a letter from Elizabeth written before Adam’s birth. The message contains a startling revelation.
Rating: PG
Words: 19,090
Part of the Decisions Series, links included within
Living in Fear (by CarlaL)
Synopsis: Eight year old Joe overhears part of a conversation and fears his father is dying . Believing that his father will live if he leaves, Joseph embarks on a dangerous journey fraught with snowstorms and a wounded grizzly bear. Will his family find him in time?
Rating: G
Words: 15,900
A Cry for Freedom (by JennieA)
Summary: It started with Ben giving Little Joe more responsibility for the Ponderosa. Little did the family realize the course Ben was setting in motion.
Rating: R (65,725 words)
Due to subject matter contained in this series, the stories are only available via e:mail from the author — ryjennie@comcast.net
The World Was All Before Them (by Deborah)
Summary: This is the first of my series of stories about Adam. It begins with his birth and ends shortly before he and Ben meet Inger Borgstrom
Rating: K WC 21,400
Adam: The Early Years Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Time Will Tell (by DebbieB)
Summary: Adam’s 21st birthday is almost here, and Ben has something special to give to him. But does his youngest son’s insatiable curiosity ruin the entire surprise for both Ben and Adam?
Rated G WC 14,100
Christmas (by SadieSpinner)
Synopsis: Ben and young Adam forced by an unexpected snow storm, must halt their journey west. Only then does Ben realize he almost missed Christmas.
Rating G 7,625 words
The Whipping (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Little Joe returns from a horse sale in Carson City that did not go well for him, his family notices a difference in his personality. Not sure why Joe acts the way he does, his family struggles to understand before Joe winds up destroying himself and his family’s good name.
Rated: PG (20,400 words)
A Life Lived (by HelenB)
Summary: Adam and Joe run into trouble while away from the ranch. Will help arrive in time?
Rating: T (11,540 words)
A Life Lived Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Decisions #1 – Decisions, Decisions (by KathrynM)
Synopsis: Adam’s cousin from New York arrives and Adam is faced with some tough decisions.
Rating: PG
Words: 14,800
Part of the Decisions Series, links included within.