A Triangle (by BettyHT)
Summary: This follows First Love, and Tragedy in the Traci Series. In “A Triangle,” Hoss renews the family friendship with the Maxim family from Arizona, but that brings up some painful memories and trouble as well as some possibilities especially for Adam.
Rating: T
Word Count: 19,803
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.
Traci series #1: First Love, and Tragedy (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a prequel to the Traci series of stories from several years ago. This story is to explain briefly Adam’s relationship with Traci and why it ended so abruptly.
Rating: T Word Count: 2637
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.
The Secret (by Inca / aka Tye)
Summary: An old friend has a favor to ask of Adam, with consequences neither of them will ever forget.
MA rated
5330 words
BTR Sourdough Starters #29 – September 2020 (by BZTrailriders)
Summary: Education was important to the Cartwrights. In fact both Adam and Joe became substitute teachers. Use one of these pictures (the brothers teaching researching) as inspiration for a vignette or addition to a past Sourdough.
Rating: G, Word Count: 2306
A Promise Kept (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is the fourth Adam and Selina story, and in this one Adam is embroiled in a plot against him which he misinterprets the danger which is nearly a disaster until many rally to help him. The villain is someone he knows but hoped never to see again.
Rating = T Word count = 15137
Selina Series, links to the stories are included within
The Laughing Stallion (by SJRCartwright)
Summary: What happened before Ivory arose as Adam faltered while entering the waiting area of the stage station? A small smile played on her lovely lips as she approached him. As if she could read his mind, she said, “I am what I look like. I am for real. I am really a woman.”
Rating: MA – This story ventures into an area that may make some readers uncomfortable. Though not explicit, the theme may not suit everyone.
(3,180 word)
You Are Not Alone (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: Just a little poem from the perspective of the three mothers: Elizabeth, Inger, and Marie.
Rated: K
Word Count: 243
Broken Ballad – The Last Gunfight (by AC1830)
Summary: What if the final gunfight that killed Ed Payson took a different turn and set the main players on different paths? A WHI for Broken Ballad.
Rating: T, Word Count: 2676
BTR Sourdough Starters #28 – August 2020 (by BZTrailriders)
Summary: The Cartwrights are out and about on the Ponderosa. Use these pictures (all C’s by water) for inspiration as to what they might be doing during the hot month of August. It can include any combination of Cartwrights.
Rating: G, Word Count: 1571
Of Knights and Cowboys (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: Abigail Jones always considered herself to be a sensible woman except when it came to Adam Cartwright, her knight in shining armor.
Rated: K
Word Count: 642
To Clear the Dust (by faust)
Summary: Saturday night, Adam and Hoss got stranded in an abandoned cabin, and what Adam wants most is a bath. And hadn’t Hoss just reckoned that? But there’s more at stake than just washing off road dust.
Rating: PG
Word count: 6223
Epidemic (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: A silent killer stalks the streets of Virginia City, and all Ben Cartwright’s sons are at risk.
Rating: K
Word Count: 14,210
The Hawk (by Sierra Girl)
Summary: When the abduction of one brother leads to injury for another, it seems that two Cartwrights may be about to meet their maker. But fraternal bonds aren’t easily severed, especially on Paiute land.
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 12,596
Fireworks (by Patina)
Summary: What’s the Fourth of July without fireworks?
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3,609
Eternal Legacy (by wx4rmk)
Summary: After the death of a close friend, Adam and his family find a peculiar object that appears to have a long and fascinating history among the Cartwrights.
Rating: K
Word count: 2684