Summary:

Written for 2011 NaNoWriMo challenge. Warning: Adult language and situations.  Adam, seeking to return to a normal life, realizes that happiness is not elusive but easily found if one just looks.

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Categories: Drama, Romance Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 55422 Read Count: 712

Summary:

Will, in courting Laura, is persuaded to be a tool in Laura's Aunt Lil's machinations to take vengeance against Adam and his new love.

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Categories: Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 4976 Read Count: 330

Summary:

Adam, now free of his promise to Laura, can pursue a new love interest.

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, setting, etc., are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. No copyright infringement is intended.

Categories: Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 3848 Read Count: 296

Summary:

Adult situations, mild violence, adult language. Adam returns to the Ponderosa after a length of five years at sea and works to adjust to all the changes he encounters as his family works to adjust to the changes in him. 

Categories: Romance, Drama, Sequel Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 9947 Read Count: 503

Summary:

A take on the beloved holiday classic, "A Christmas Carol." But in a way that only the Cartwrights can do it.

Categories: Holiday Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 19554 Read Count: 83

Summary:

Celebrate Christmas in Virginia City and uncover a mystery.

Categories: Holiday Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 18 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 16777 Read Count: 1136

Summary:

Adam and Hoss are busy with Christmas coming

Categories: Holiday Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 1479 Read Count: 156

Summary:

Sometimes getting a tree can cause problems

Categories: Holiday Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 3428 Read Count: 202

Summary:

Adam wins the woman he loves but then loses her. Can he win her back?

Mature situations and language.  Disclaimer: All recognizable characters and settings are the property of their respective owners. All original characters and plots are the property of the author. No copyright infringement is intended.

Categories: Drama, Romance Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 27591 Read Count: 398

Summary:

What happens when Ben Cartwright agrees to take on the daughter of a dead friend?  A friend that was present when Marie had Little Joe?

Categories: Drama, Romance Characters: All
Series: The Daughter Series
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 9524 Read Count: 331

Summary: After telling four year old Little Joe about the balls held during Mardi Gras, Marie dreams of a dance held in the future. How has life turned out for the Cartwrights? Did Adam, Hoss, and Joe turn out to be the men we know?
Categories: Drama, Prequel Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 3621 Read Count: 269

Summary:

The Cartwrights are caught up in a wild and dangerous hunt for a werewolf which is making its way across the Ponderosa. Ranch hands and Paiute friends get swept up with them in figuring out how to get rid of something nearly immortal. The werewolf goes about its business of scaring men and livestock, all the while quite sure there will be only one outcome. But it never met the Cartwrights and friends.

Categories: Action/Adventure, Holiday Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 5404 Read Count: 37

Summary:

A What Happened Instead story for No Less A Man. The Virginia City Town Council convinces Adam and Ben that Roy Coffee is no longer capable of doing his job. When Adam explains the situation to Roy, the sheriff swears him in as a deputy and then quits his job. It's then up to Adam to protect Virginia City from the Wagner Gang. When the gang arrives in town to rob the bank, Adam is injured. Ben, Hoss, Joe, and Roy all feel guilt for what has happened to Adam while serving Virginia City's citizens.

Categories: What Happens Instead?, Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 10067 Read Count: 406

Summary:

Young Adam Cartwright struggles with acceptance.

Categories: Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 1093 Read Count: 420

Summary: Ben has hired a new hand to help with the branding. Is there more to him than meets the eye?
Categories: Prequel, Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 2407 Read Count: 305

Summary:

In this sequel to They Walk in Beauty, Regan has returned to San Francisco with her latest lover when the unthinkable happens. 

 

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respecitve owners. The orginal characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended. 

Categories: Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 9542 Read Count: 410

Summary:

Adult situations and language. Adam escapes from Andersonville prison during the Civil War but soon becomes a prisoner of his own heart.

Disclaimer: All recognizable characters, settings, etc., are the property of their respective owners. All original characters and plot are the property of the author. No copyright infringement is intended.

Categories: Romance, Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 27971 Read Count: 253

Summary: Adam's second round-up following his return home from college.  He and Joe aren't getting along but a brutal bear attack changes everything.
Categories: Drama, Prequel Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 5746 Read Count: 948

Summary:

 

Summary This is part 1 of My Autry Children Series. Summary: Marie’s sister Suzette ran off with John Autry, who travelled around with a group of  entertainers. They sold goods by day and at night they performed shows. John was a sharp shooter. Suzette was a dancer and did horse tricks. Other acts were acrobatics, magic tricks, and musical numbers.

 

Reader Alert Alternate Universe/storyline

THANKS MarthaS for the Beta-Reading and your help :D much love ^_^

Ages : Adam 29, Hoss 23, Joe 17,

(My Characters: Kristina 10, Nathan 6, Jacob 4 ½ , Charlotte 2 , Edward 1

 

Categories: Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 2420 Read Count: 78

Summary:

Troubles and Changes come upon the Cartwrights' what will the New Beginnings be like?  I completed this as part of the NaNoWriMo challenge.

 

Contains non-canon characters. I do not own the Cartwrights nor anything to do with Bonanza. This story is my own creation and any similarities to anyone dead or alive is purely coincidental.

Categories: Drama, Romance, Future Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 51053 Read Count: 480

Summary: Joe makes a resolution to stay out of trouble. Hoss and Adam are determined to help him break it. How long can Joe last?
Categories: Comedy, Prequel Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 4105 Read Count: 333

Summary:

Adam's homecoming is met with disaster.

 

A WHI for the episode, A Matter of Circumstance

Categories: Comedy, Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 8344 Read Count: 274

Summary:

I’ve written several prequels, but this is my first adult Cartwright story. Joe and Hoss have a falling out and Hoss is deeply hurt by Joe’s actions. Will Joe be able to make things right again? Originally posted on Bonanza World

Categories: Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 6665 Read Count: 241

Summary:

A rather silly mix of Greek mythology and the Cartwrights...

Categories: Action/Adventure Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 2342 Read Count: 135

Summary:

 

When Ben succombs to heat exhaustion, who should appear but Joan Wingate, the young woman he rescued from the Paiutes. Only now she's Mrs. Henry Dexter, but does she still have feelings for Ben? And does he have feelings for her? Could their love possibly have a second chance?

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Categories: Drama Characters: All
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 64305 Read Count: 90