Category: Hurt/Comfort
Reunion (by BettyHT)
Summary: A prequel that is an alternate reality in which Adam was taken by Indians in the attack that cost Inger her life and eventually is reunited with his family, but the reunion is rocky.
Rating = T WC = 54,773
A Stranger in the House (by DebbieB)
Summary: The last time that Little Joe sees his father is when Ben yells at him to jump seconds before their wagon careens down a steep ravine. Little Joe is found badly wounded and brought home to his brothers……..but what about his father? Ben has vanished and Joe’s grief is more life threatening than the injuries he suffered from the accident.
Rated: G (12,440 words)
Changes Past (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A what happened next for The Last Viking. A story told from Adam’s point of view as he attempts to reconcile what happened to another time in his life.
Rating: K (3,665 words)
The Pain and the Fury (by justafan)
Summary: WHN for The Magnificent Adah. Joe was assaulted by one of Ben’s rivals. Hoss dealt with the gentleman and the episode ends with Ben, Hoss, and Adam returning from the saloon to check on Joe.
13,957 words Rating: K+ (has some description of physical assault)
When Hope and Fate Collide (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Everything was progressing smoothly, right up until it went so wrong. The brothers and their men drive their largest herd ever to Sacramento, California.
Rating: T (32,520 words)
One Step At a Time (by BettyHT)
Summary: A simple accident and later a brawl in a saloon have devastating consequences. A new friend will make all the difference in the outcome.
rating = T WC = 41875
Leah Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Adam Through The Ages (by BettyHT)
Summary: A series of stories about Adam after college from ages twenty-three to twenty-right and then from thirty-five to forty with troubles within the family as well as against outsiders who want something from the Cartwrights. The chapters follow one another but each one could stand on its own as a complete story.
WC = 218,113 Rating = T
Hoss In Charge (by BettyHT)
Summary: The story focuses on Hoss when one of his brothers is badly wounded. Hoss has to care for him to save his life and then sets out to apprehend those who did it. Which brother is it? Not saying as the story is a Hoss centric.
WC = 6034 Rating = T mostly for violence and language.
Devil’s Dust (by freyakendra)
Summary: A man of God who lacks true faith heads into the desert on a quest for miracles — catching the Cartwright brothers in his flawed pilgrimage.
Word count: 22,000. Rating: T.
Truth Is What You Make It (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam finds himself in a predicament and needs his family to help him. It lets him recapture the trust he needed to feel that he was truly at home.
rating = T WC = 19808
Truth Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Truth Be Told (by BettyHT)
Summary: The death of Marie and what led to it trigger years of difficulties for Adam Cartwright and his family building the Ponderosa but with trouble holding the family together. The truth can let them move forward but it takes a long time before Ben admits it.
WC = 61660 rating = T
Truth Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Adam’s Very Bad Week (by BettyHT)
Summary: After the Lotta Crabtree encounter, Little Joe is angry with Adam and events increase that as well as his jealousy. Adam is angry and acts accordingly. Ben and Hoss do their best to calm the waters but it takes a crisis to bring the brothers back together again.
WC = 15, 286 Rating = T
Very Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Adam Just and Aida stories (by BettyHT)
Summary: Four Adam and Aida stories; sequels to Adam Just and Aida. The first, Hallucinations, pits Adam against a sinister and clever enemy. The second is meeting between Adam and Aida’s family. The third is a Christmas story in which things just don’t go as planned. The fourth is a story of what happens when some seek to deceive and others make mistakes; Candy also has a romance in that one.
Rating = T WC = 60,527
More Than Enough (by justafan)
Summary: This is the sequel to Enough.
Rating K+ Word Count: 4952
Enough Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Just the Way They Are (by BettyHT)
Prequel. After Adam returns to the Ponderosa from college, Joe harbors a lot of jealousy of Adam and it colors all of his interactions with his oldest brother. The trip home from a cattle drive and a series of unfortunate events will begin healing the rift between the brothers.
WC = 8613 Rating: T