Bonanza Brand FanFiction Library

Summary:  There are three stories that can stand alone but are related. –Trapper John — Hoss meets a man in the mountains whose life intersects with the Cartwrights a number of times. –Suspicion — Adam’s relationship with Delphine leads to a disastrous turn of events and to Adam leaving, but he meets someone important in France, and on his return, he meets Trapper John. –Belladonna — Murder and what to do about the murderer are at the center of the story. A threat to Adam’s family brings the situation to a crisis.  
Rating: T   Word count: 60,428

Summary: This is a prequel story in which twenty-four-year-old Adam brings home eighteen-year-old Hoss after a Saturday night in town when the large brother has consumed too many beers. 
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,123

Summary:  Adam and Joe go to War, but it’s not your usual brother against brother Civil War story.  There’s not much about war, but there is spying, romance with a little help from a brother, a tale of revenge, and suffering among other things.
Rating: T  Word count: 15,777
Part of the Choosing Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary: A ‘guest’ at the Ponderosa reveals a secret that Adam had warned his father would inevitably be found out.  The family has to deal with the aftermath of the cruel truth.
Rating: T   Word count: 12,471

Summary: This story is a little history of gambling for a good cause in Virginia City with Hoss playing a starring role.  
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,082

Summary: A journey home turns into a nightmare that will never be forgotten.

Rating: T

Word Count: 3,618

Summary: During the intense first day of the Battle of the Wilderness, Adam finds himself staring down his youngest brother, someone he had hoped to heaven he’d never meet on the battlefield. A terrible day only gets worse when Adam realizes he and Joe aren’t wearing matching uniforms. Part one of the Allegiance Series.
Rating: G Word Count: 2197
Part of The Allegience Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary: Little Joe Cartwright loves dime novels with all the action and adventure, and that becomes the center of his latest ‘brilliant’ scheme that has the usual unintended and unfortunate consequences.
Rating: T  Word count: 10,599

Summary: A bullet, a question, and the unconditional love of a brother.

Rating: K+

Word Count: 978

Summary: A series of stories about Adam’s birthdays from his thirty-first through his thirty-fifth. It is meant to be light-hearted with a little romance.  There is a switch in POV from Adam, to Ben, to Hoss, to Joe, to all throughout the story to see the same events from different perspectives, and to examine the relationship among the brothers as well as to examine Ben’s thought processes too.
Rating: PG  Word count: 13,999

Summary: Adam thinks he will have to make a sacrifice to improve his relationship with his younger brother, but it is Joe who ends up doing that for all the right reasons.
Rating: T  Word count: 15,443

Summary: There’s a guest on the Ponderosa who is very taken with Adam, but she’s only three years old. It’s a Christmas story so there’s trouble but a warm fuzzy ending.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,181  

Summary: it may start out looking like a serious story, but it’s a fun brothers’ story using songwriting as the major method of the two-against-one scenario and vice versa.
Rating: T  Word count: 2197

Summary: A WHIB for the episode The Boss. Just how did Little Joe make it home after being shot by Gus Hannah?

Rating: K+

Word Count: 910

Summary: This is both an AU and a WHI for The Search providing an alternate ending for the episode.  The first part of the story is directly from the episode and then the story continues with new material.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2405