Bonanza Brand FanFiction Library

Summary:  One of the Cartwrights is badly injured.  He’s trying to get home.  Someone comes to his rescue and helps him until his brother can find him.  But who took care of him?

Rating = K  (1633 words)

Summary:  This is a prequel in which Adam returns from college, and Little Joe has bad dreams and bad friends which turn out to be a terrible combination. Trouble on the Ponderosa combines with that to cause a combustible situation and Little Joe is the key to resolving the complex web as he learns some important lessons.  It is the key to resolving a problem years later as well.    

Rating = T  (21,071)

Summary: During the last quarter of 2015, members in the Brand Forums were challenged to write vignettes for all the Bonanza episodes. Members could submit as many Little Bits for as many episodes as they were inspired to write. Multiple members could submit Little Bits for the same episode. The hardest part of the challenge was to write the vignette in exactly 100 or 200 words.
Some Little Bits are dramatic while others are humorous. The submitting member is identified after each Little Bit. 132 Little Bits have been submitted to date and are listed in episode order.

Rating: K (16,000+ words)

Summary:  It pays to listen.  After the fact, the family tries to figure out what Hop Sing said before returning to his kitchen.

Rating K  (1,240 words)

Summary: a cowboy who returns to the Ponderosa after a long absence discovers a new horse trainer…with an unwelcome training method.

Rating: T (mild language). 4316 words.

The Lilies Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Little Joe’s recent misbehavior has him singing the “I’m Gettin’ Nothing for Christmas” blues.

Rating: K (1155 words)

Summary: Adam and Joe leave the Ponderosa, perhaps for good, in the wake of tragedy and misunderstanding. But the danger only Adam knew about is still with them. Note: the backstory is filled in gradually, through a series of nonsequential flashbacks.

Rating–T. Contains some violence, mild language, a grisly murder scene and a couple of animal death scenes.  (105,500 words)

The Lilies Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: Home alone on Christmas Eve; a special visitor keeps watch over a young man.

Rating:  G  (920 words)

Summary:  For the good folks of Virginia City, Roy Coffee is a darned good sheriff. For the Cartwrights, he is also a proper friend, as he proves to himself when his job intermixes with a tragic event on the Ponderosa.

(Word Count: 2400; Rating: K)

Summary: Missing scenes for The Truckee Strip.

Rating:  K  (1,345 words)

Summary:  A long-time family friend returns to Virginia City with the threat of the Rawlins Gang hanging over the territory.
Rating:  T    34,000 words

Summary:  Will Virginia City and the Ponderosa survive during Hop Sing’s and his cousins and their families’ two-week family reunion in San Francisco?  Rating:  T    24,070 words

Summary:  Adam’s the Trail Boss, like so many times before.  But just who is this mysterious drover?
Rating:  T   Words:  39,300

Summary:  Adam and his wife settle into life on the Ponderosa.
Rating:  T   Words: 9,870

Summary:  It’s an adventure on a trip to Senora, Arizona for Ben and Joe.
Rating:  T 53,420 words