Category: Chaps and Spurs
A writing challenge from the Bonanza Brand Forums.
Never Fool with a Horse’s Tassel (by pbeaking)
Summary: Written for the Chaps & Spur Challenge for June, 2011. Adam and Hoss get into a mess of trouble when Adam invents something to help him with a daily chore. Please read this little story to see how I incorporated the five words needed to meet this challenge: medieval, tassel, commence,
Rating: K WC 1800
The End of a War (by BnzaGal)
Summary: Written using the five words (Bachelor, Medieval, Commence, Culmination, and Tassel) from the Chaps & Spurs Challenge, June 2011.
Rated: K+ (1,110 words)
Terror of the Night (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Little Joe has a nightmare.
Rated: T (750 words)
Springtime Memories (by frasrgrl)
Summary: It’s the day before a big event, past and present, in Joe’s life, and he shares it with someone special.
Word Count: 1,832 Rated: K
The Scent of Posies (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: One never forgets their first scent of posies…and Hoss Cartwright is no exception!
Rated: K+ (1,010 words)
The Gift (by JoeC)
Summary: Joe get’s a special birthday present
Rating: K (553 words)
Trust (by frasrgrl)
Summary: After being injured, Joe questions his belief in trust and second chances.
Word Count: 968 Rated: K+
Mistaken Identity (by ljlover2001)
Summary: Written in response to the Valentine’s Day chaps and spurs challenge
Rated: K+ (5,115 words)
When I Wake Up (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: One of the Cartwright boys finds himself in a tight spot.
Rated: T (3,050 words)
New Year’s Eve Shenanigans (by ljlover2001)
Summary: A story written in response to the Chaps & Spurs January Challenge. Ten year old Little Joe attends a New Years Eve party in town with his family and manages to get into trouble – quelle surprise!
Rated: K (2,025 words)
A Christmas Story (by Storm)
Summary: Here’s my answer to the December Chaps and Spurs challenge.
Rated: K+ WC 3100
Things that Go Bump in the Night (by Cheaux)
Summary: Did you ever wonder why Joe was obsessive about hunting creatures of the night in My Brother’s Keeper and Marie, My Love?
Rated: T WC 2500
All Hollow’s Eve (by ljlover2001)
Summary: Written in response to the October chaps and spurs challenge, in honour of Mike Landon’s birthday. Joe stays in town, after the Halloween dance, to enjoy a game of poker with his friends, but soon wishes he had gone home with his brothers
Rated: K+ (1,960 words)
A Hunting We Will Go (ljlover2001)
Summary: Hoss and Joe go on a hunting trip, but they become the hunted, not the hunters
Rated: K+ (1,340 words)
First Day Nerves (ljlover2001)
Summary: Little Joe has to face his greatest challenge since losing his mother
Rated: K+ (1,670 words)
































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