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Summary: Six-year-old Joe asks his big brother what he can do and Adam comes to regret telling him.
Rating: G (5,700 words)
SUMMARY: When witnessing a crime, Adam can’t act, and then after the fact, he can’t help the posse and he can’t tell what he knows. Those things give people the wrong impression, but eventually put him in great danger too. The whole family will have to work together to resolve the problem.
rating = T word count = 10,705
Yellow #2 – Can Love Change Everything? – by BettyHT SUMMARY: In this sequel to Yellow, Adam finds that getting Jason and Mariette as well as their gang to court for justice was not the end of the problem for him. Though the system worked as it should, a plot still develops against him for revenge, and he’ll need his family and others to avoid what is planned.
rating = T word count = 14, 498
Yellow-Haired Angel (The) – by lminzer
Summary: Sometimes the greatest gifts are the most unexpected ones…
Rated: K+ WC 2500
Yes, Virginia, There is a Cartwright Family – A REALLY Lost Episode – by Robin
Summary: The question every little girl wants to know the answer.
Rating: T 805 words
Yesterday #1 – Yesterday a Jealous Man, aka Today’s Lonely Fool – by BluewindFarm
Summary: The aftermath from She Walks in Beauty.
Rating: K+ 1,550 words
Yesterday #2 – How Can You Mend a Broke Heart – by BluewindFarm
Summary: To some, the holidays aren’t always merry, nor bright.
Rating: G Words: 950
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
Yesterday’s Child – by Arrenall
Summary: A quiet night of reflection, and maybe they just might relive the past.
Rating: 1,990 words
You Ain’t My Brother! – by VRON
Summary: Sometimes it’s hard being the eldest!
Rating: G Words, 1,210
You Are Not Alone – by Annie K Cowgirl
Summary: Just a little poem from the perspective of the three mothers: Elizabeth, Inger, and Marie. Rated: K Word Count: 243
You Can Always Check In – by BettyHT
Summary: in a hotel in a small town in California, Adam has an unsettling experience where a woman years earlier suffered a great tragedy.
Rating: T Word count: 1485
You Can Bet on It – by PatD in PA
Summary: With Christmas just around the corner, Little Joe Cartwright learns exactly how far his Yankee Granite Head of a big brother will go, just how much he will do, in order to keep him safe.
RATING: PG WORD COUNT: 10,301
You Can’t Keep an Old Lawman Down – by Patina
Summary: Is it too much to ask for the law to experience a Silent Night at Christmastime?
Rating: G (2,795 words)
You Go Fishing, Son? – by mumu74
Summary: The sentence is “When he looked at his hand, it appeared to belong to someone else.” I made a few changes, because I decided those words would be connected with a woman.
You Got to Have Heart – by Judy
Summary: Little Joe and trouble seem to go hand in hand.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 36,377
You Have To Ask the Right Man – by BettyHT
Summary: New hands play practical jokes that become increasingly a problem and their justification doesn’t sit well with Joe after Adam gets hurt. Response to October Chaps and Spurs challenge.
rating = T WC = 2870
You Just Wait and See – by DebbieB
Summary: When Little Joe tries to keep his friend from getting in trouble things go all wrong for the youngest Cartwright.
Rated PG WC 26,000
You See, It was Like This – by Heidi
Summary: It seemed simple enough. Deliver a package to Widow Hammburg on the way into Virginia City. Adam wasn’t sure how it had gone so wrong.
Rating: G Words: 6,455
Your Time is Gonna Come – by Annie K Cowgirl
Summary: I dug my fingernails into the flesh of my palms as the ground reeled beneath me like the deck of a ship in a summer squall. A trickle of dust and small stones rained down as the walls of the Ophir Mine creaked and groaned like an animal in its death throes. A WHIB for the episode “The Philip Diedesheimer Story”.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 755
You’ve Got a Friend – by Annie K Cowgirl
Summary: After the scandal surrounding his fiancee’s death, Clem Foster isn’t sure if he has anymore friends left in Virginia City. So he’s determined to do the one thing he feels he can: leave town and never come back.
Rated: T Word Count: 995
Younger Years (The) #1 – by Jenniferk22
Summary: Adam takes a trip out of town only to run into a pair of twins in need of a home. The tables turn when it may be more trouble for Adam than it’s worth.
Rating: PG-13 (15,705 words)
Younger Years (The) #2 – The Graingers – by Jenniferk22
Summary: The sequel to The Younger Years.
Rating: PG-13 (10,205 words)
Youngest (The) – by Inca / Tye
Summary: Adam and his fifteen-year-old youngest brother haven’t been getting along too well, but when Joe’s life is left hanging in the balance, the two of them are forced to re-evaluate their relationship.
WC 8100 Rated: T
Youngest Cartwright (The) – by Lisa Orcutt
Summary: Little Joe teaches Adam and his father about compassion.
Rating: PG Word Count: 11,150
Summary: Joe has been missing for days. When he’s found badly beaten, and with no memory of his former life, Joe is forced into learning to trust this blue eyed, gentle giant who claims to be his brother.
Rated G WC – 9800
Your Son is a Man – by BettyHT
Summary: Hoss takes a stand with his father, but it takes a serious accident for Ben to fully accept what his son told him.
Rating: PG Word count: 8,168
Yuma & Yuma: Lost and Found – by BettyHT
SUMMARY: In Yuma, while attempting to fix a mistake that Joe made, Adam makes one far worse and with greater consequences for his future. Eventually his family will be drawn into it too and with lessons learned, they will face the problems. Edited to add a second story, Yuma: Lost and Found — it is a companion piece to the first part with the story told from Anne’s POV.
Rating = T Word count = 44,158