Bonanza Brand FanFiction Library

Summary:  Ben waits for Adam on his first day at  school.  (Prequel, 1837/Seedling Challenge)

Rated: K   Word count: 1660

Summary:  Learning bits and pieces of the past enforces a difficult lesson regarding thinking before one acts, and the need to hear both sides of a story before reacting. With the family poised to fall apart, can harmony be restored? 

Rating: T (16,235 words)

Summary:  Words said have a destruction consequence within the Cartwright family.  One family member refuses to live where respect does not.

Rating:  K+     Word Count:   6,299

Enough Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: A story of Cartwright family love:   When Adam refuses to fight for his life…or his limb…after his Mountain of the Dead experience, (The Savage) Hoss and Joe return to the camp where they found him and figure out what really happened there. Hoss confirms that Ruth was real, but in following his Adam’s journey, he also finds truths his older brother couldn’t see. Twelve years later, Adam is a happy husband and father living in Boston at the time he travels to San Francisco where he meets his father and brothers there for a reunion. Another “unexpected” reunion sheds more light on the past.

Rating: T      Word Count: 22,384

“You go.” Dreaded words, Juliet knew that, but Adam simply had to admit that this night’s duty had lain heavily on her shoulders and to understand it was his turn to pacify their unhappy child.

1225 words, rated K

The Art-Universe Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: Follow Adam as he returns to Boston six years after graduating college.

Rating: MA – Mature Audiences only SEXUALLY EXPLICIT (7620 words)

His First Time Series, links to stories included within.

Summary: A WHI for “Desperate Passage.”  After rescuing Mary Burns from the Paiutes, Joe has to be saved as his attempt to mount an Indian pony and ride to safety goes awry.

Rating: T (Some Violence)  WC: 3396

Summary:  Twenty years etched into the memory of a man who stands at the crossroads of his life.  

Rating:  K (10,815 words)

Summary:  Griff King’s inner-thoughts on what made him change his mind about Hoss Cartwright’s true character . 1st Person POV

Rating: K   Word-Count: 2,685 

Summary: After a night of brotherly bonding is complicated by a group of distrustful vaqueros and a jug of pulque, the morning after — two days later — opens Adam’s eyes to a whole new dimension in his relationship with Little Joe.

Word Count: 4351 Rating: T

Summary:  Sexually explicit sections in the story that explains why Adam has been gone from the Ponderosa for eight years.  It is Adam centric but the other  Cartwrights have significant parts in the story as well.

Rating MA.  WC = 36118

Adam Just Series, links to stories within the series are included.

It might look like everyday business, but it’s more, much more. Ben makes some quite interesting observations, and Juliet learns something, too. 2,300 words

2450 words, rated K

The Art-Universe Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary –  It’s a small world; Bonanza style

Rated – G   /  Word count – 2,446

**Written for the 2014 Bonanza Roundup Writer’s Seminar**

Summary:  People have pegged Hoss as different his whole life.  Is he really that different from his father and brothers?

Written for the 2014 Bonanza Roundup 2 Writer’s Seminar.

1824 words