Ponderosa # 1 – Up in Smoke (by Texas2002)
Summary: Hoss’ and Adam’s childhood memories
Rating: G Words: 12,000
Pandora’s Box (by VickiC.)
Summary: Little Joe learns that opening a locked box can release troubles and cause all manner of problems.
Rating: PG (4,840 words)
The Canoe Trip (by VickiC.)
Summary: Adam and his friend Ross decide to take a fishing trip. To Adam’s dismay, two little brothers manage to go along, too. Of course, with a mischievous six-year-old along, the trip is not quite what Adam had planned.
Rating G (12,110 words)
The Waif (by Lyn Robinson)
Summary: Adam finds his curiosity leads him into an unexpected commitment
Rating: G (15,925 words)
Sweet Caroline (by VickiC.)
Summary: First love can be painful in more ways than one. When Adam first begins to explore the world of girls and love, the whole family find this out as they and he try to come to terms with his ‘growing’ pains.
Rating: PG13 (28,900 words)
The Next Generation #3 – Through Thick and Thin (by StephyL)
Synopsis: Everyone is excited about the coming of Christmas and the new year, with Adam and Hoss getting married and possibly a new Cartwright child, but something horrible happens and the family must pull themselves together to get through this. This jumps around a bit, but I think I made it decently easy to read.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 8,600
The Good Samaritan (by VickiC.)
Summary: Ben tries to teach a young Hoss the parable of ‘The Good Samaritan’, but Hoss turns the tables on him, and Ben learns the real meaning of the story.
Rating: G (12,000 words)
Snakes Alive! (by VickiC.)
Summary: A young Joe begs for a new story to while away another winter’s afternoon. Ben responds by telling how a simple request for Adam to find Hoss a new pastime rebounds on him.
Rating: G (9,500 words)
Among Tall Trees (by VickiC.)
Summary: After Inger’s death Ben, Adam and baby Hoss journey west. Adam makes a new friend and the family find a new home.
Rating: G (16,070 words)
Yard Chores (by VickiC.)
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)
Hidden Talents (by VickiC.)
Summary: Hoss is having trouble at school and uses a boast of Adam’s to help him out. The boast threatens to have tragic consequences when Adam feels obliged to carry it through.
Rating: G (11,300 words)
Attic #2 – The Gunpowder Plot (by VickiC.)
Summary: Joe persuades his father and a very reluctant Adam, to tell the story of the black powder.
Rating: G (5,500 words)
Attic #1 – Treasures in the Attic (by VickiC.)
Summary: Adam and Joe bring down some trunks from the attic and Pa relates a hundred year old family story to amuse a bored Little Joe on a winter’s day.
Rating: G (6,840 words)
The Sailboat (by VickiC.)
Summary: On the eve of Joe’s wedding the three boys meet at the lake and the discovery of their old sailboat causes them to remember the first time Joe went sailing! In the course of the tale we find out why Adam’s name does not appear on the witness tree.
Rating: PG (7,600 words)
The Solitary Way (by VickiC.)
Summary: The period of Adam Cartwright’s life from Marie’s arrival at the Ponderosa until after Joe’s birth.
Rating: G (158,600 words)
