Category: Alternate Universe
Inclusion of non-canon family members (wives, siblings, etc.)
A Question of Mercy (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: A What Happened Instead/What Happened in Between for the episode A Question of Strength.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 1,466 (Includes one instance of mild language and mentions of violence)
One Step Closer #6 – Changes in Fate (by MissJudy)
Summary: Ben, Hoss and Little Joe head to Boston to be with Adam after receiving the devastating news that the entire Wadsworth family had perished at sea. The Wadsworths had adopted Adam into their family when he’d been a student, and they’d renewed their support and friendship when he’d returned to marry Melinda and start a family twelve years later. Ben and the two brother find Adam coping, but staggering under the weight of his pain. Adding to his loss, Adam may lose his command over Wadsworth Engineering–the firm he’d helped make into a thriving business–when Frank Wadsworth’s will names an heir. Will this accumulation of loss be the final straw for Adam? Can the love and support of his family: his father and brothers from the West, and his grandfather, wife and children in the East, sustain him as he faces the absence of even more people he’d loved?
Rating: PG (52,135 words)
One Step Closer Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Shirtless Joe (by JC)
Summary: One man’s “Field of Dreams” is another woman’s fantasy.
Rating: PG (1,010 words)
To Soar on Albatross Wings (German Translation) – (by Krystyna)
Zusammenfassung: Diese Geschichte führt Candy in die Cartwright Familie ein, in der er einen ruhelosen Joe Cartwright vorfindet, der die Tatsache übelnimmt, dass sein ältester Bruder die Ponderosa verlassen hat. Adam erlebt in der Zwischenzeit seine eigenen Abenteuer, weit weg auf dem Ozean…mit dieser Geschichte startet meine Captain Cartwright Serie, vorrausgegangen ist jedoch die Geschichte I Shall Cherish You Forever.
Rating: T (68,645 words)
A Pearl Without Price (by JC)
Summary: Adam Cartwright knows well there are some things in this world that money can’t buy, and other things are priceless. (Part of the Ties That Bind AU series)
Rating: K+ (1,425 words)
Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Imperfect Memory (by JC)
Summary: A conversation overheard at a party evokes Adam’s memories of Marie and the integral role she played in his own first love. (Part of the Ties That Bind AU series)
Rating: T (47,245 words)
Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Fortuna Smiles (by faust)
Written for the prompt: Adam wins the lottery. And that’s all there is to it.
800 words, rated K+
Part of the Art-Universe, links to stories within the series are included.
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.
Providence (by Questfan)
Summary: When Joe returns home with a child that he claims is his, the story is not quite what anyone expects.
Word Count – 14,709 Rating: T
The Cherry Tree Saga (by Robin)
Summary: Like the ever changing seasons, life blooms and dies on the Ponderosa.
Rating T (140,000 words)
Home is the Sailor #3 – There Will Always be Rainbows (by Krystyna)
Summary: Events from the past come back to haunt Adam and his family.
Rating T WC 140,975
Home is the Sailor Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Out on a Limb (by JulieS)
Summary: A few weeks before his wedding, Hoss gets more than he bargained for after rescuing a lady in distress.
Rated: PG (8016 words)
The Way Things Are series, links to all the stories in the series included.
Seasons Of Change (by Adams_Lover)
Summary: Seasons of Change is a continuation story from Weekend Dad, a modern day Bonanza story featuring Adam. The story begins ten years after the end of Weekend Dad, and Jason is getting ready to head to college. The story will continue the four years Jason is in college until he graduates. There will be many references to the Weekend Dad story, so if you have read it before, you will understand them when you read them in this story.
PG-13: Very mild language and implied sexual situations (201,225 words)
Weekend Dad Series, links to stories within the series are included.
One for the Ages (by Justafan)
Summary: A story of a friendship that ran deeper than blood.
Rating: K (537 words)
Charity Series #5 — Dreams and Challenges (by BettyHT)
Summary: Now that Adam and Charity are married, they face challenges in work and in family relationships. They have dreams of a family and a home too, and they have to adjust those dreams to the reality of events over which they have no control.
rating = T WC = 22,140
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
