Most Recent: Last Trophy? (The) d 12/24/2025 see summaries below
A Handful of Ashes – by sklamb
Summary: After a hotel fire in Sacramento, the survivors must come to terms with what is left to them. A story for all those who have learned from personal experience that even small miracles are sometimes miracle enough.
Rating: T WC 7200
Summary: It’s November 1865, and a winter storm and a stagecoach accident are interfering with many people’s plans…. Not so much a WHN as a What Happened Later for “The Crucible.”
Rating: T 15,840 words
Aftermaths #2 – Exit Lilah Rose – by sklamb
Summary: Adam Cartwright may have left Nevada, but in the late summer of 1866 his influence remains powerful in Virginia City. Follows on from my story “Aftermaths,” although it stands on its own; also contains WHIBs for the seventh-season episodes “The Other Son” and “Mighty Is The Word,” and an incidental WHN for “The Search.”
Rating: T WC 22,500
An Abigail Triptych – by sklamb
Summary: That pioneer of education in the Nevada Territory, Miss Abigail Jones, is featured in these three very short stories.
Rating: K+ WC 5400
Summary: Two vignettes giving insight on Adam’s initially awkward relationship with his second step-Mother.
Rating: K WC 2600
Summary: Rich man, poor man, Indian chief–what are they all doing in Sheriff Coffee’s jail during a blizzard?
Rating: : K Word Count: 4483
Christmas Candle – by SKLamb
Summary: To some degree, this is a WHBefore for “Elizabeth, My Love,” and “The Burma Rarity.”
Rating: G Words 1,650
Written for the 2022 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Counterpoint: Alleluia – by sklamb
Inspired by sklamb’s “Not Without My Son.” Two stories linked are a collaboration between JoaniePaiute and sklamb.
A double-vision exploration of the conclusion to “The Crucible,” prompted by Cheaux’s November 15 2013 Pinecone challenge. Although these stories can stand alone, they were written in close coordination and benefit from being read in sequence.
Rated: T
Summary: Written for the Bonanza Brand 2016 Advent Calendar
Rating: K 790 words
Heartaches by the Dozen – sklamb
Summary: Life hadn’t been going exactly as planned, nor as dreamed.
Rating: G 1,530 words
Written for the Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
I Wonder as I Wander – by sklamb
Summary: On a cold Christmas Eve near Harvard Square, Adam comes to receive a sort of epiphany.
Rated: K WC:1000
Last Trophy? (The) #1 – sklamb
Summary: A two-day what-happened-before, what-happened-in-between, and what-happened-later for the first season episode “The Last Trophy”.
Rating: G (1,135 words)
Last Trophy? (The) #2 – by sklamb
Summary: The second of a two-day what-happened-before, what-happened-in-between, and what-happened-later for the first season episode “The Last Trophy.”
Rating: G (2,010 words)
Summary: Rose McNair gives Dan De Quille an interview after Virginia City’s great fire. A “What Happened Elsewhere” for The Night Virginia City Died,
Rating: K WC 2500
Not Without My Son – by sklamb
Summary: A fresh look at certain events of Episode 94 The Crucible which didn’t in some parts of the multiverse quite follow the televised script….
Rated: T WC 1800
Ring Out Wild Bells – by sklamb
Summary: Music may have charms to soothe the savage breast, but is that still true when Hoss Cartwright is the one singing?
Rating: G
Words: 1,325
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
Summary: Shortly before Christmas, Candy seeks someone out for a serious talk.
Written for the 2019 Advent Calendar
Rating: G Word Count: 965
Shell-Game Girl (The) – by sklamb
Summary: Ben Cartwright reminds some interested ladies–including Clementine Hawkins and Lilah Rose–that the pleasures or otherwise of old memories can be entirely a matter of context. A WHIB/WH much Later for The Burma Rarity.
Rated:K WC:1100
Summary: When Adam brings his family back to the Ponderosa, his daughter Elizabeth’s first Christmas in Nevada is far from idyllic. But in 1903–in St. Louis!–Adam and the rest of her family make an upcoming Christmas truly special for her.
Rated: K WC 2600
Summary: A chance encounter leads to dramatic consequences for two drifters and the men they rescue—Joe and Adam Cartwright. Twenty years later, “The Crucible” still casts a dark shadow….
Drama, some mystery, WHN or, rather, What Happened Later
Rated: K+ WC 55,300
Upon a Knight of Olde – by sklamb
Summary: While his wife and daughter are busy with their Christmas preparations, Adam entertains his ladies with tales of times past–perhaps a very long way past!
Rating: G 2,600 words
Note: This story was written for the Bonanza Brand 2020 Advent Calendar, originated in the Forums.
Synopsis: Adam Cartwright is home again, but not everybody seems pleased about it….
Rating: K+ Word Count: 827
Summary: Death doesn’t put an end to our relationships with the ones we love. Especially at Christmas!
Rating: G Words: 1,655
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
Women’s Work Matters – by sklamb
Summary: Virginia City, traditionally, was a place for men to come and make their fortunes, but the gentler elements of society had their own contributions to make–especially at Christmas!
Rating: G 1,900 words
Note: This story was written for the Bonanza Brand 2020 Advent Calendar, posted in the Forums.