Category: Modern Day
How Traditions are Born (by ElayneA)
Summary: A slapstick fun story of Adam getting bested. A word to the wise, always double check what you’re ordering, especially in the 1800s. Out of his fiasco, came a family tradition out of necessity.
Rating: G Words 1100
Written for the 2022 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
The First Time in Years (by ElayneA)
Summary: Adam is mending fences, not only physically but helping mend Hoss’s heart.
Written for day 6 of the 2021 Advent Challenge.
Rating: G
Word Count: 2207
Return to Grace (by JC)
Summary: In this comedy from the Jack Richards/Malibu Sunset archives, Jack returns to his hometown to honor a last request. But not everyone got the memo…. (Posted in honor of Pernell Roberts’ birthday)
Rating: K Word Count: 2605
Jack Richards Series, links to all stories are included within.
Reprise (by JC)
Summary: Tragedy affords a middle-aged actor a second chance at the role of a lifetime. (A Jack Richards story, Non-Bonanza)
Rating T (11,709 words)
Becoming Ben Cartwright, aka The Ballad of Lorne Greene (by JC)
Summary: The day a balding, middle-aged, B-movie actor became a legend in the making. (Written in the style of Lorne Greene’s Number One hit recording of “Ringo”)
Rating: G Word Count: 203
When Your True Lover Comes Your Way (by JC)
Summary: It’s another Wednesday, another “western of the week” for a young actor still looking for his big break. But a man’s luck can change when he least expects it. (A Jack Richards story for Valentine’s Day )
Rating: G 713 words
Jack Richards Series, links to all stories included within.
Right is the Third Left (by JC)
Summary: He may be retired, but to his fans Jack Richards will always be Alex Carver, the most drop dead gorgeous cowboy to ever roam the Badlands…
Rating K (2583 words)
Jack Richards Series, links to all stories are included within.
High Finance (Or, How to Keep Your Mutton-Headed Sons From Getting Robbed) (by pjb)
SUMMARY: Oh, the lengths a father must go to in order to protect his sons. . . .
Rating: K Word count: 1,100
There Is A Season (by JC)
Summary: A man’s life and the things that matter most are revealed in a series of Christmas Eve vignettes. (Mind you, this is not a Bonanza story. It is a piece of original fiction featuring a character born many years ago in a Bonanza World journal—an actor named Jack Richards, not-so-loosely based on Pernell Roberts. If that intrigues you, or if you’re just in the mood for an easy read in keeping with the season, you may enjoy this. I hope so.)
Rating: T (11,074 words)
Jack Richards Series, links to all stories included within.
Belated Holiday Greetings in a Letter From Joe (by Robin)
Summary: A holiday letter to Mitch, from Joe.
Rating: T (2,600 words)
Shirtless Joe (by JC)
Summary: One man’s “Field of Dreams” is another woman’s fantasy.
Rating: PG (1,010 words)
When They Were Young (By Adams_lover)
Summary: This story is a modern day story with Adam as the featured character. It is a prequel to “Weekend Dad.”
PG-13: Very mild language and implied sexual situations (113,407 words)
Weekend Dad Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Studio Executives #2 – Little Joe Cartwright’s Very, Very, Very Bad Day (by pjb)
Summary: The ever-helpful Cartwrights come to the aid of studio executives who need to develop a special episode for Sweeps Week.
Rated PG-13 (or whatever the Brand equivalent is) Word count: 3,175
Studio Executives Series, links to all the stories included within.
A Tale Within a Tale (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: A descendent of the Cartwright family discovers his family history.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 2,492
A Modern Cartwrights Story #5 – A Passing Stranger (by GinnyF & Robin)
Summary: This Modern Day Cartwrights story is based on the Bonanza episode “A Stranger Passed this Way”.
Rating: PG (46,475 words)
A Modern Cartwrights Story Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Laugh in the Dark (by EPM)
Foiled Attempts (by DebbieB)
Best Friends (by JoanS)
The Maiden (by McFair)
Lost and Found (by Laura Brodie)
More Than Enough Love (by Hart4Ben)
Poisoned (by Hart4Ben)
Little Joe’s Seventh Birthday (by muffinstuffin)
To Be Loved As No Other (by Laura Brodie)
Only Skin Deep (by Rona)
Red Night (by BettyHT)
Stormy Nights and Injuries (an Adam and Emma story) (by AH83)
Power of Love (by Rona)
A Spoonful of Medicine (by Patina)
Tied in Knots (by DebbieB)
Impasse (by BettyHT)
Sacrificial Lamb – Part 1 (by Kenda)
I Won’t Be Spoiled No More (by Patina)
Thou Shalt Not Lie (by DebbieB)