The Picker (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: “I-I’ve come to ask you for your daughter’s hand, Sir.”
Rated: K+ (1,244 words)
Carson City Earthquake (by Lyn Robinson)
Summary: On a horse buying trip the brothers experience, a Carson City Earthquake
Rating: K (5,600 words)
In the Child’s Best Interest (by MissJudy)
Summary: In this early prequel, Ben Cartwright and 4-year-old Adam stop in Cleveland where pay was good at the docks. Ben hopes to earn enough to start the final leg of their journey to Missouri, and a wagon train west. But a couple at their boarding house have plans for Adam that don’t include Ben. The story ends 26 years later as Ben helps Adam recall the ordeal and the outcome.
Rating: K (27,135 words)
Valentine Nightmares (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: A light-hearted look at the Cartwright men struggling with the upcoming Valentine’s Day dance.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 667
You Have To Ask the Right Man (by BettyHT)
Summary: New hands play practical jokes that become increasingly a problem and their justification doesn’t sit well with Joe after Adam gets hurt. Response to October Chaps and Spurs challenge.
rating = T WC = 2870
He’s My Father Too (by MissJudy)
Summary: Farmer Perkins and Sam Bryant are dead and Ben is safe, yet his sons are at odds. Little Joe and Adam’s argument tears them apart, and Hoss realizes that while his father survived, the bond between his other brothers died at dawn. Ben wants to solve things but must step back to let his sons find their way back to each other.
Rating K (20,920 words)
He was Brave that Day (by Robin)
Summary: It all started with Hoss saving the life of a neighbor.
Rating: T (6,800 words)
Momma Liked The Roses (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: When the pain and the hurt are still fresh, can a memory shine bright?
Rating: K (1,125 words)
A Journey Against Time (by Puppycuddles)
Summary: While trying to foil a land grab scheme, Joe is wounded. Despite her own injuries, can his younger sister, Sierra, get him to a doctor in time? A sister fic, with a plot based loosely around the episodes of Land Grab and My Brothers Keeper.
Word count: 13,354 words Rating: T
Julia (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: A prequel to “The Julia Bulette Story”. It attempts to explain the apparent connection between Ben and Julia.
Rating: T Word Count: 2480
Je T’aime, Ma (by pulitzer2016)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Adam never wanted another stepmother, but now that Marie is on the Ponderosa – and six months’ pregnant – there’s little he can do but be polite and try not to think of the beloved stepmother he lost. But when Ben goes away on a business trip and Marie is injured, Adam must ride alone for help. Along the way, he realizes that things have a way of becoming precious, even when we don’t intend them to.
Rating: K Word Count: 12,446
Yesterday a Jealous Man, aka Today’s Lonely Fool (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: The aftermath from She Walks in Beauty
Rating: K+ (1,550 words)
Yesterday Series, links to stories included.
Pride and Ponderosa (by Sandspur)
Summary: What happens when Jane Austen’s ultimate chick-fic, “Pride & Prejudice,” crosses into the burly, macho, he-man world of Bonanza? Confusion? Kidnappings? Crossover characters from other series like “Bronco” and “the Big Valley”? Anything can happen—and anything does!
Rating: T. Totally clean, but one description of an unseemly death. WC 86,200
Mama’s Angel (by Ellie248)
SUMMARY: A Cartwright Christmas Past. A tradition begun.
Rating K (1,407 words)
Ben and Miss Barbara (by Robin)
Summary: Between the trial and Paiutes, tensions are running high in and around Virginia City.
Rating: T (9,410 words)
