{"id":26132,"date":"2006-09-02T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?page_id=26132"},"modified":"2020-11-01T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T11:40:13","slug":"stories-by-author-sandspur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?page_id=26132","title":{"rendered":"Stories by Author &#8211; sandspur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Latest story &#8211; For Love and Honor<\/strong> &#8211; posted 10\/31\/2020, see summary below.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=10911\">A Stitch in Time &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary:\u00a0 Joe lies dying of injuries 19<sup>th<\/sup> century medicine could never cure while Adam, given a cryptic clue from an ancient fraternal feud, searches for help 100+ years in the future..<br \/>\nRating:\u00a0 T<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=22260\">Ballad of Tahoe Tessie (The) &#8211; by sandspur\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary:\u00a0 Cattle are being eaten, and their picked-clean skeletons are being deposited near the lake, but when the Cartwrights investigate, they find a lot more than they ever bargained for &#8230; and the effects will last forever.<br \/>\nRating: T\u00a0 20,000 words<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=30791\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=30791\">For Love and Honor (by sandspur)<\/a><\/p>\n<div>Summary: This is a blast from the past. This tale was on BonanzaWorld back in 2009, and appeared in The Best of BonanzaWorld book, but it hasn\u2019t been posted anywhere else, ever. A follow-up to Death at Dawn, the story focuses on what happens to a man of action (the guy who does what needs to be done) once the action is over.<br \/>\nRating:\u00a0 PG<br \/>\nWord Count: 9435<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=10721\">Lilies Series (The) #1 &#8211; The Lilies of the Field &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: With Ben away, the Cartwright boys face down\u00a0poachers, a train robbery, a fire that nearly destroys the Ponderosa, a strange new school teacher and a lost dog. But when Ben returns, the biggest problem of all is gossip.<br \/>\nWC 109,300\u00a0 Rating: T\u00a0 mild language, mature themes, violence<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=11970\">Lilies Series (The) #2 &#8211; The Lilies of the Valley &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary:\u00a0 Adam and Tilly go to Europe for the worst honeymoon ever, landing in the middle of a war to end up missing and presumed dead. Meanwhile, Ben, Adam and Hoss move on with their lives, finding new friends and uncovering strange secrets from the past.<br \/>\nRating: T. Violence, character death, attempted rape, etc.\u00a0\u00a0 109,635 words<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=12351\">Lilies Series (The) #3 \u2013 One Scarlet Lily &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Adam and Joe leave the Ponderosa, perhaps for good, in the wake\u00a0of tragedy and misunderstanding. But the danger only Adam knew about is still with them. <em>Note:<\/em> the backstory is filled in gradually, through a series of nonsequential flashbacks.<br \/>\nRating\u2013T. Contains some violence, mild language, a grisly murder scene and a couple of animal death scenes.\u00a0\u00a0 105,500 words<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=12386\">Lilies Series (The) #4 \u2013 The Strawberry Roan &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: a cowboy who returns to the Ponderosa after a long absence discovers a new horse trainer\u2026with an unwelcome training method.<br \/>\nRating: T\u00a0 mild language . 4316 words.Note: This short story is set in the \u201cLilies\u201d universe, but it can stand on its own.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=12481\">Pride and Ponderosa &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: What happens when Jane Austen\u2019s ultimate chick-fic, \u201cPride &amp; Prejudice,\u201d crosses into the burly, macho, he-man world of Bonanza? Confusion? Kidnappings? Crossover characters from other series like \u201cBronco\u201d and \u201cthe Big Valley\u201d? Anything can happen\u2014and anything\u00a0does!<br \/>\nRating: T. Totally clean, but one description of an unseemly death. \u00a0WC 86,200<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=13204\">Siren Song &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: \u00a0What if Ben hadn\u2019t seen Adam pulling Kane through the desert just before abandoning the search? And what if the only thing keeping Adam going\u2026stopped?<br \/>\nRated: \u00a0T\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Word count: \u00a05403<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=10754\">Sound and the Fury (The) &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: It&#8217;s brother against brother, Cartwright style! Revenge is not a dish best served cold&#8211;it&#8217;s best served to the sound of the cannon!<br \/>\nRating: K\u00a0\u00a0 1,160 words<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?p=16228\">Undiscovered Country (The) &#8211; by sandspur <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary:\u00a0\u00a0The problems a man keeps secret are the biggest problems of all.<br \/>\nRating:\u00a0 \u00a0PG\u00a0\u00a0 1,955 words<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/?page_id=11397\">Return to Author List<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Latest story &#8211; For Love and Honor &#8211; posted 10\/31\/2020, see summary below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":375,"parent":20324,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-26132","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26132\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonanzabrand.info\/library\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}