Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
The Golden Rule (by Judy)
Summary: To do the right thing, Joe must disobey his father.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 16,555
Inner Conflict (by Judy)
Summary: Joe meets Billy the Kid.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 20,500
Blood Brothers (by Judy)
Summary: This story is a “prequel” to the episode entitled “A far, far better thing”; it deals with Little Joe’s friendship with the Indian ‘Sharp Tongue’. It is a story about difficult friendships and prejudice. As usual, I have added a few things just for fun. Please feel free to ignore them or explore them as you prefer.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 48,255
Because (by Heidi)
Summary: Joe has looked forward to his first cattle drive all year, but now that Adam, newly home from college, has offered to lead the drive instead of Pa, Pa has decided Joe had better stay home. Can anything sooth the injustice of it all?
Rating: G Words: 1,940
Winter Break (by Judy)
Summary: Unable to participate in a winter activity with his brothers, Joe finds a way to take matters into his own hands.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 15,000
When the Sun Goes Down (by Mia)
Summary: When life after loss seems too hard to deal with, Adam sneaks out for a night ride.
Rating: PG Words (8,145)
The College Years (by Jenniferk22)
Summary: This is a story about Adam’s journey from childhood into adulthood.
Rating: PG-13 (59,925 words)
Home to Stay (by Mia)
Summary: Months after Marie’s death, Ben is ready to come back to his life on the ranch. Now it’s a matter of finding the way back home.
Rating: PG (Words 3,680)
Gypsy (by Judy)
Summary: When Ben tries to teach Joe a lesson, it is he that learns a greater one.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 64,940
Family (by Judy)
Summary: A family outing almost ends in tragedy.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 17,234
A Lesson in Vocabulary (by Judy)
Summary: Out of the mouths of babes.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 9942
Special Bond (by VickiC.)
Summary: The bond between brother and a boy and a horse. Set on Adam’s return from college. The first story I wrote of the adventures of the Cartwrights.
Rating: G (43,575 words)
Be My Valentine? (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: For twelve-year-old Joseph Cartwright, things go from bad to worse as he struggles with the most “mushy-gushy” school assignment he’s ever been given. When all his efforts to solve his dilemma fail, there’s only one person who can stand between him and the painful consequences he’s destined to reap—Adam.
Rated: K WC 15,100
Growing Pains (by Helen A)
Summary: Growing up isn’t easy, physically or emotionally, as Joe Cartwright discovers.
Rated: T (29,565 word)
The Wrong Child – by Lisa Orcutt
Summary: A grieving father takes the death of his son out on Little Joe.
Rating: PG Word Count: 10,000
