Bonanza Brand FanFiction Library

Summary:  Another really lost episode. Rating: T Word Count:  3,181

Summary: Tensions are high as a powerful snowstorm blankets the Ponderosa. However, Adam’s quick thinking brings about more than one positive result.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 2005

Summary: Joe asks a question about Christmas that leads Adam to tell a story about coming West, and then there are more stories about Christmas with Marie and Elizabeth.
Rating: PG  Word Count: 5,126

Summary:  Chalk one more up to Little Joe and ‘cowboy-isms’.
Rating:  G  (1,525 words)
Part of the Cowboy-isms series, links included within.

Summary: Gabriella, the middle Cartwright stepdaughter, gets captured by outlaws and her family and fiancé, Candy Canaday search for her.

Rating: T

Word Count: 16,327

Summary: Mysterious things are happening on the Ponderosa and Little Joe is on a mission to figure them out by any means possible. Written for the 2022 Camp In The Pines. 

Rating: K / Word Count: 4897

Summary: This is a series featuring Adam but with significant roles played by Hoss, Joe, and Ben. Each story can stand alone, but features the same OCs and they tell a progressive story as well.–On Borrowed Time— There are conflicting accounts of what happened in a gunfight, and the family of the man killed won’t believe Adam. –On the Run— about five years later, Adam faces accusations and a tragic loss, and has to flee.   –On Edge— Adam and Elaine get to know each other but it’s complicated by Elaine’s disapproving father, and court fights too. –On Top of the Mountain— There are ups and downs in Adam’s romance and Hoss gets to be romantic too.
Rating: T  Word count: 111,885

Summary: The celebration is held in the true spirit of the holiday as proclaimed by President Lincoln, but there is melancholy too.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,692

Dedicated to Debbie B. or Debbie Beshears (because she asked for it!)
Eleven-year-old Little Joe Cartwright is on a mission.  His friend, Sarah Winnemucca, needs his help and so, he sets out to find her in the woods.  Of course, since this is Little Joe Cartwright, he’s bound to find something else as well – BIG trouble! 

Rated: PG
Word count: 32,644

Summary: the brothers break through the usual limits to have spring adventures and forget winter doldrums by visiting those they met in Springtime.
Rating: PG  Word count: 9,940

Summary: It’s always a question as to how to commemorate the birthdays of those one has lost. For the Cartwrights, those days were days to celebrate and remember the best of each loved one no longer with them. Then they faced the most devastating loss of all, and the tradition seemed inadequate.
PG  Word count = 3,601

Summary: There are many ways of believing whether it is in the spirits of Halloween, in Santa, in promises and dreams, or in each other. The story is about how believing has an impact on the Cartwright family.
Rating: PG  Word count: 3,581

Summary: Oration on My Life’s Work – one of the Cartwrights in the mode of a self-appointed avenging angel and working hard to make sure no one knows his choice of a second job.
Old Stage Station –  otherworldly goings-on for Joe and Adam in an eerie and chilling mystery that almost sends one brother home without the other. 
On Living the Nightmare – Ben has trouble accepting his sons’ choices for wives; numerous references to ladies featured in Bonanza episodes.
rating = T  word count = 4,874

Summary: Hoss rescues a small girl and after finding out her mother’s a widow and that she doesn’t have a penny to her name, he invites them to stay on the Ponderosa until they can get back on their feet. But then disaster strikes the second day of their stay and the Cartwright family is forever changed.

Rating: T

Word Count: 18,984

Families often share and share alike, but sometimes you get, sometimes you get got, and sometimes you get even. (Written for Camp in the Pines)

Rating: T Word Count: 2592