Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
The Color of Chocolate (by Debbie B)
Summary: Chocolate has more meaning to Little Joe than just a piece of cake. It keeps appearing in his dream and the vision scares him.
Rated G WC 9200
When Death Comes Callin’ (by DebbieB)
Summary: When a young friend and Joe play hooky from school, Joe won’t tell his father the real reasons, until it’s too late. Ben then has to find the words to comfort his son and explain why God allows such things as an untimely death, to happen.
Rated G WC 15, 300
Sleepwalking (by StephanieJ)
Synopsis: Little Joe is walking in his sleep…what’s going on?
Rating: PG-13
Words: 17,900
San Francisco Adventure (by KateP)
Summary: Ten-year-old Little Joe is lost in the Big City
Rated: K+ (9,620 words)
Poltergeist (by pkmoonshine)
Summary: A cruel taunt sets off a chain of unsettling events at the Cartwright homestead.
Rating: K+ (15, 325 words)
A Real Brother (by KateP)
Summary: What makes a Real Brother?
Rated: K+ (1,935 words)
Dead Man’s Canyon (by J7339)
Summary: Little Joe thinks that his family doesn’t love him anymore. He is always being yelled at and getting into trouble. To add to his problems there is a substitute teacher at the school that has also taken a disliking to Joe.
Rated: K+ (49,570 words
A Real Nice Lady (by Deborah)
Summary: This is the episode “Inger, My Love” told from the point of view of five-year-old Adam.
Rated: K+ (12,340 words)
Adam: The Early Years Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
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)
Beginnings (by GinnyF)
Summary: Five vignettes of when Ben’s life began anew.
Rating: K (1,230 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
The Great Egg Race (by KateP)
Summary: A Little Bonanza story for Easter
Rated: K+ (2,200 words)
Cinnamon Rose (by pkmoonshine)
Hoss, age 15, falls in love for the first time . . . and yes! The young lady’s feelings are mutual.
Rating K+ WC 37,000
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)
