Summary:  After a hotel fire in Sacramento, the survivors must come to terms with what is left to them. A story for all those who have learned from personal experience that even small miracles are sometimes miracle enough.  

Rated: T  WC  7200

Summary: Joe decides to play a trick on Adam out on a cattle drive. Little does he realize his actions will trigger a horrendous memory for Adam from his youth.

Rating:  K+  WC 4200

Summary:  Young Joe arrives in Boston to visit Adam but finds instead a confused housekeeper and a large sum of money.  Excitedly Joe leaves for an adventure in Paris where he believes Adam awaits him, but his ship sinks off the coast of France… Thus begins a frantic search for Joe in which a world famous writer will be host to all the Cartwrights.  

Rated: K+ (34,080 words)

Summary:  All is quiet on the Ponderosa, until two strangers show up. Now, things start to twist and turn. Join in as Little Joe & Hoss, along with Ben & Adam, try and figure out how to get themselves out of yet another jam. 

Rated:  T (33,685 Words)

Summary:  Adam has never worried about his father’s faith and trust in him. That changes dramamtically after a woman drops an 11 year-old at the Ponderosa, telling Ben that the boy is Adam’s son, conceived before he left for college. After repeated attempts to defend himself against th accusation, Adam leaves home, angry and hurt by his father’s seeming refusal to accept that the woman is lying. Once Adam confronts his accuser, he is forced to look further to find out how he and his family became targets for her ploy, and pays a high price for trying to find the truth in her life of lies.

Rated: T  WC  60,000

Summary:  Adam’s return from college has Ben saying and doing everything wrong, with no clue as to why he’s acting that way, yet unable to make any adjustments in his behavior to stop the building crisis. The tension in the house comes to a head as Adam is severely injured in a fall and Ben finds out that his son has made plans to leave the ranch and take a job as an engineer in San Francisco. As Adam’s condition unexpectedly worsens, Ben finds the right words to say, but fears it may be too late to make a difference. Paul Martin and Hop Sing play important roles in easing these two powerful Cartwrights back together.  

Rated: K+  WC  9200

Summary:  Twelve year old Joe is bitten by a rattlesnake, but things get uglier faster than expected.  

Rated: K  (5,000 words)

Summary: A WHN for Escape To Ponderosa

Rated: K  (3,270 words)

Summary: Ben discovers what is–and isn’t–most important about his youngest son.

Rated: T  WC  36,000

The Barn Cat Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Faced with a heartbreaking prognosis after a riding accident, Joe finds unexpected solace with a new friend.

Rated: K+  WC  26,000

The Barn Cat Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Breaking into one’s own home is sometimes inevitable, but the consequences are more than Adam bargained for.

Rating:  K  (2,370 words)

Summary:  First part of the story is based in part on the episode The Hopefuls — Adam and Regina had been in love, but circumstances drove them apart. She kept a secret though, and five years later, it will cause dramatic changes in Adam’s life. 

Rating T  40,282 words.

Summary:  Missing scenes from The Triangle, and what happened next. 

Rating:  K+ (5,170 words)

Another Side of The Triangle series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: After Adam and Joe take an early spring ride up into the mountains, Joe comes home alone with fragmented memories and a haunting fear that Adam might never come home at all. A story told in two voices: Joe’s and Adam’s. 

Rated: T  WC  24,000