Summary: Due to his weight, Hoss hurts Adam accidentally in a cart accident (pun not intended) and for the first time feels extremely bad about his own size. The family is trying to help. 
Rating and Reader Alerts:  PG, descriptions of pain
Words:  5,500

Summary:  Home alone, Joe is kidnapped, but then events take an unexpected turn. Will Joe survive until his family finds him?

Rated:  MA   (9,270 words)

Summary:  A series of mishaps and an illness show the Cartwrights that it’s not just Ben who has protective urges.

Rated:  T (11,425 words)

Summary:   Christmas is fast approaching on the Ponderosa, but for the Cartwrights, it is not the season to be jolly, for Joe has been missing for two months. What has happened to him and will he ever come home?

Rated:  T    (11,235 words)

Summary:   Adam takes four-year old Little Joe on a camping trip and a lesson in vocabulary.

Rating:  G  (2,400 words)

Summary:  While searching for a missing ranch hand in the snow, Joe and Adam learn what it really means to have a brother to rely on.

Rated:  T   (8,250 words)

Summary:  After falling out, Adam and Joe discover what is worth fighting for.

Rated:  T    (6,865 words)

Summary:  The opportunity for Adam to help out a holidaying professor with his research seems wonderful. But is it too good to be true? And who will pay the price for the professor making Adam do something Against His Will?

Rated:  T  (8,840 words)

Summary:  Despite the reservations of some members of the family, Joe breeds his bad-tempered mare to his famous wild stallion, Satan. The result is something none of them could have foreseen.

Rated:  T    (11,405 words)

The Mustang Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Visiting a friend in jail has consequences that Joe doesn’t expect.

Rated:  T     (8,545 words) 

Synopsis: Joe returns home late from a trip and finds that Ben, realizing Joe was going to be late, has sent Hoss to Pineville in place of him. All seems well until Ben and Joe receive a telegraph from Pineville informing them of an unfortunate shootout resulting in Hoss’s death. As Ben needs time too himself to grieve, it is up to his youngest son to pick up the responsibilities around the ranch and push aside his own feelings to allow his father this time. Moving from one responsibility to the next keeps Joe from thinking about the tremendous loss he feels until a couple of days later when he comes across a letter in his father’s desk addressed to him………from his brother, Hoss.
Rating:  Teen     Word Count:  8,100

Summary:  An accident leads to self-doubt for Joe, until a potential disaster restores his faith in himself.

Rated:  T    (9,350 words)

Summary:  After Hoss is bushwhacked and badly injured, Joe vows to find the men who did it, even though he was injured, too.

Rated: K+ (8,300 words)

Summary:  On his return home, Adam finds Joe’s life in danger. But is everything as it seems? This story has a sort of Halloween connection, but isn’t spooky.

Rated: T     (4,555 words)