Bonanza Brand FanFiction Library

Summary: Seventeen year old Hoss gets entrusted to collect the payroll from the bank and get home. Simple as that, or is it? 

Rating: G, Word Count: 11,298

Summary: What would happen if every Cartwright had to do a job they hated? Or at least disliked? This is a story of jumbling up the work and distributing it in a whole new way. Let’s see if the Cartwright sons can really pitch in and fill in for another brother.

Rating: G, Word Count: 17,310

Summary: After watching The Grand Swing with Jamie, and seeing Hoss and Joe’s names on the tree, I started imagining what escapades would have led to them taking the “swing” with Ben. I’m not sure about Hoss yet, but I had no trouble conjuring up Little Joe’s mess!

Rating: G, Word Count: 23,137

Summary:  Whether being stubborn as a mule or butting heads like big horn sheep, they do care about each other; and he’d waited long enough
Rating:  T  (Words:  1,120)

Summary: The third story in the Vine series answers the last question of who sent the vine, but there is also an examination of Marie’s background to explain the motivation for that act. The story may not make sense in every part unless you have read the first two stories in the series.
Rating: T  Word count: 5,865

Summary: Follows Cold Fingers Around My Throat and answers some of the questions left unanswered at the end of that scary story and moves the story along a bit further as the family fights evil.
Rating: T Word count: 3,277

Summary: A story within a story with a prequel in the main story. Little Joe had a nasty prank played on him when he was ten, and fourteen years later, a similar situation is playing out again. He blamed Adam the first time, but he doesn’t know who to blame the second time.
Rating: T  Word count: 3009

Summary: A day out in the snow with his siblings turns out to be more than Adam bargained for, putting his role as the oldest brother to the test. On top of battling the elements, Adam finds himself struggling with thoughts about Marie…
Word Count: 4793   Rating: G

Summary: One summer solstice night, Adam Cartwright time travels with the aid of a fairy ring to the year 1962. He meets an eleven-year-old girl and takes her to Dairy Queen on his motorcycle.

Rated G   Wordcount: 3,707

Summary:  When Adam invited Joe to come to Europe for a holiday, he never imagined the consequences.

Rating: T Word Count: 9,898

Summary: A young Ben takes part in a lumberjack contest, but the consequences aren’t what he expected.

Rating: K+ Word Count:  2893

Summary:  Adam and Joe cope with trouble.

Rating: T Word Count:  6,197

Summary:  When help is desperately needed, Cochise provides it.

Rating: T Word Count: 4,208

Summary: After suffering a tragic loss Ben learns true friends are really family.

Rating: K+ Word Count: 822

Summary: The Broken Ballad episode ends with many unanswered questions. Life would have changed in small and huge ways following Ed’s death. So … what happened to Will Cass, whose grief pushed him to do despicable things? How does Billy explain his reason for shooting Payson in what could be described as legal murder when Ed refused to shoot first? How do Adam and Sally make sense in the loss of their friend who simply wanted a chance at a normal life? And how do Adam and his father find common ground after Ben sided with Will Cass against his own son and continues to think Adam should have expected this outcome all along?” This story takes a realistic view of what they each faced in the hours and days after Ed’s ballad was sung at the cemetery.

There’s a twist in this story connecting Broken Ballad to an earlier episode, Blood on the Land that should prove interesting to the story.

Rating: K

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