Category: Alternate Universe
Inclusion of non-canon family members (wives, siblings, etc.)
Pa’s Favorite (by Meg)
Summary: Ages: Amelia 1; Little Joe 7; Hoss 13; Adam 19 Description: Little Joe becomes jealous when Ben starts to pay more attention to little sister Amelia prompting Joe to think that Amelia is Pa’s favorite. Joe’s P.O.V
Rating K (3,900 words)
Amelia Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Captain Cartwright # 4 – The Commodore (by Krystyna)
Summary: Ben loses the Ponderosa which is purchased by some unknown benefactor. Hoss and Joe both fall in love but only one of them ends up at the altar, and Adam is sent to the Kuril Islands to locate a missing ship.
Rated: K+ (217,930 words)
Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Captain Cartwright # 3 – Captain, Oh My Captain (by Krystyna)
Summary: Joseph Cartwright suffers what he considers a fate worse than death when an accident during a stampede causes him to face time in a wheelchair and Adam’s hopes of marriage are dashed when he is sent on an assignment to Alaska.
Rated: K+ (210,950 words)
Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
A Father’s Gift (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: Ben’s thoughts as one of his sons lies in an Army hospital.
Rated: K+ (1,515 words)
The Long Road Home series, links to other stories within the series are included.
Far Side of Jordan (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: After years of marriage Tara stands next to Adam’s grave thinking.
Rating: K (750 words)
Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Acceptance (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: Sequel to “Long Road Back”.
Rating: K+ (12, 190 words)
Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
His Father (by faust)
He was special, even among the special men: his father. If only….
1,600 words, rated T
A Time to Heal (by DebraLynn)
Summary: This is the first in a series of stories portraying a Bonanza future after Adam’s return to the Ponderosa. Expect joys, sorrows, adventures, marriages, births, deaths, and the enduring love within the Cartwright family.
Rated: T (15,430 words)
Hope (by faust)
Hope is the thing with feathers…it falls into your lap, but is blown away so easily.
1,650 words, rated T
The End of a War (by BnzaGal)
Summary: Written using the five words (Bachelor, Medieval, Commence, Culmination, and Tassel) from the Chaps & Spurs Challenge, June 2011.
Rated: K+ (1,110 words)
Long Road Back (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: A what if I got from “The Crucibles”…mostly, what if Ben, Hoss and Little Joe hadn’t found Adam. What if someone else did? And What if Adam didn’t just ‘bounce back’?
Rating K+ (14,570 words)
Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
The Art of Horse Selling (by faust)
Adam Cartwright has a lot of things to deal with: burglars, unwanted newspaper articles about his family, and someone who doesn’t want to saddle a horse. Will he at least be able to survive the whole mess? A WHN for Enter Mark Twain, in a way.
31,100 words, rated T
The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Captain Cartwright # 2 – To Fly with Eagles (by Krystyna)
Summary: This is the second of the Captain Cartwright series in which Joe leaves the Ponderosa and finds true love, extreme danger and a longing for home. It also brings Adam home from sea to join with Hoss in a search for their little brother.
Rated: K (154,265 words)
“Joseph’s restless by nature, gets that from me I suppose. He wants a chance to find his own rainbow and his own pot of gold at the bottom of it. Well, this is his chance.”
The final page contains reviews/comments from the Old BonanzaBrand Library.
Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Sure as Shootin’ – Part 1 and 2 (by Fozrulz)
Summary: Joe and pesky little sisters and guns – not a good combo.
Rated: K+ (10,585 words)
Will She Ever Mind? (by Fozrulz)
Summary: Pa is wondering if Ellie is ever going to learn to mind?
Rated: K+ (6,425 words)
