Baa-Baa (by Belle)
Summary: Hoss helps Miss Jones make the annual Christmas pageant “extra special.”
Rating: G
Words: 2,850
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
Pine Tree Challenge (by BettyHT)
Summary: Another prequel, but Little Joe is eleven in this one, Hoss is seventeen, and Adam is twenty-three. Climbing that pine tree is again key to the story, but it is what happens after that which is most significant.
Rating: T Word count: 5, 575
Pine Tree Loss and Gains (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is the third and last installment in this series. Ben does his best to make amends for what went wrong, but Joe has a plan too. Only time will tell which will be more effective.
T 7,071
Pine Tree (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a prequel in which Little Joe has a daring adventure that becomes a scary ordeal for his family. Hopefully, this will be the first in a series of stories featuring the pine tree, and each will be separated by several years for the family.
Rating: PG Word count: 3,212
The Ugly Duckling (by AH83)
Summary: The Ugly Duckling story, Cartwright style.
Rating: G, Word Count: 3254
Life Isn’t Always Sunshine and Rainbows (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Whether being stubborn as a mule or butting heads like big horn sheep, they do care about each other; and he’d waited long enough
Rating: T (Words: 1,120)
Cold Hearts, Warm Hearts (by BettyHT)
Summary: The third story in the Vine series answers the last question of who sent the vine, but there is also an examination of Marie’s background to explain the motivation for that act. The story may not make sense in every part unless you have read the first two stories in the series.
Rating: T Word count: 5,865
It’s Time (by LisaD)
Summary: Adam struggles with a difficult situation that only his journal can help with.
Rating: G, Word Count: 626
The Pooka (by AH83)
Summary: Something is destroying farmer’s crops. A Halloween Story.
Rating: K, Word Count: 806
Cold Vine (by BettyHT)
Summary: Follows Cold Fingers Around My Throat and answers some of the questions left unanswered at the end of that scary story and moves the story along a bit further as the family fights evil.
Rating: T Word count: 3,277
A Woman Scorned (by Glenandme)
Summary: Little Joe is fifteen and in love. Miss Kitty is about as sweet and lovely as a girl can be. What her mother has to say about all this is, well, the rest of the story.
Rating: PG, Word Count: 8139
Cold Fingers Around My Throat (by BettyHT)
Summary: A story within a story with a prequel in the main story. Little Joe had a nasty prank played on him when he was ten, and fourteen years later, a similar situation is playing out again. He blamed Adam the first time, but he doesn’t know who to blame the second time.
Rating: T Word count: 3009
The Promise (by AH83)
Summary: Adam learns the importance of his promises.
Rating: K, Word Count: 1445
Unsung Hero (by HarpistforHim)
Summary: A day out in the snow with his siblings turns out to be more than Adam bargained for, putting his role as the oldest brother to the test. On top of battling the elements, Adam finds himself struggling with thoughts about Marie…
Word Count: 4793 Rating: G
Candy and the Outlaws (by AH83)
Summary: Candy discovers some miners are not who they are supposed to be.
Rating: K, Word Count: 1241
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