Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
All for Nothing (by Gillian)
Summary: 14 year old Adam tries to help Hoss out of trouble, but things, of course, go wrong.
Rating: G (9,350 words)
Night Guard (by Sadie Spinner)
Synopsis: A young Adam is determined to take part in guarding his father’s new herd of cattle. But is determination enough?
Rating: G (1,025 words)
A Worried Man (by Lyn Robinson)
Summary: A brother acting out of character causes another to worry.
Rating: PG-13 2,280 words
Pandora’s Box (by VickiC.)
Summary: Little Joe learns that opening a locked box can release troubles and cause all manner of problems.
Rating: PG (4,840 words)
The Canoe Trip (by VickiC.)
Summary: Adam and his friend Ross decide to take a fishing trip. To Adam’s dismay, two little brothers manage to go along, too. Of course, with a mischievous six-year-old along, the trip is not quite what Adam had planned.
Rating G (12,110 words)
Sweet Caroline (by VickiC.)
Summary: First love can be painful in more ways than one. When Adam first begins to explore the world of girls and love, the whole family find this out as they and he try to come to terms with his ‘growing’ pains.
Rating: PG13 (28,900 words)
The Good Samaritan (by VickiC.)
Summary: Ben tries to teach a young Hoss the parable of ‘The Good Samaritan’, but Hoss turns the tables on him, and Ben learns the real meaning of the story.
Rating: G (12,000 words)
Snakes Alive! (by VickiC.)
Summary: A young Joe begs for a new story to while away another winter’s afternoon. Ben responds by telling how a simple request for Adam to find Hoss a new pastime rebounds on him.
Rating: G (9,500 words)
Among Tall Trees (by VickiC.)
Summary: After Inger’s death Ben, Adam and baby Hoss journey west. Adam makes a new friend and the family find a new home.
Rating: G (16,070 words)
Yard Chores (by VickiC.)
Summary: Six-year-old Joe asks his big brother what he can do and Adam comes to regret telling him.
Rating: G (5,700 words)
Hidden Talents (by VickiC.)
Summary: Hoss is having trouble at school and uses a boast of Adam’s to help him out. The boast threatens to have tragic consequences when Adam feels obliged to carry it through.
Rating: G (11,300 words)
Attic #2 – The Gunpowder Plot (by VickiC.)
Summary: Joe persuades his father and a very reluctant Adam, to tell the story of the black powder.
Rating: G (5,500 words)
Attic #1 – Treasures in the Attic (by VickiC.)
Summary: Adam and Joe bring down some trunks from the attic and Pa relates a hundred year old family story to amuse a bored Little Joe on a winter’s day.
Rating: G (6,840 words)
The Solitary Way (by VickiC.)
Summary: The period of Adam Cartwright’s life from Marie’s arrival at the Ponderosa until after Joe’s birth.
Rating: G (158,600 words)
Inger #4 – Journey’s End (by Krystyna)
Summary: Ben Cartwright finally finds where he wants to be – and picks up a passenger along the way.
Rating: T (8,830 words)
Inger Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
