Most Recent Stories
The Date (by bonanzagirl)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Joe has a date in a ghost town. A Halloween story.
Rating: PG Word count: 4500
Mary Louise (by Joefan1)
Summary: Joe rides into a deserted town and has a look around
Word Count: 2119
Rating: General Audience
Just the Way You Are (by Wrangler)
Exasperated by Little Joe’s behavior, Adam launches into an all-out tirade detailing his brother’s many character flaws. Ben’s efforts to keep tempers from flaring between his two sons are sidelined when there’s a sudden accident. Rating T, WC 17,710
Werewolf on the Ponderosa (MelissaR1992)
Summary: Hoss suspects that a mysterious houseguest might actually be a werewolf.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 4,358
The Bad Man (by Wrangler)
The nightmare was real when Little Joe was abducted at five years old by someone he called “the bad man“. Now, at seventeen, his nightmare returns. Trapped inside his childhood memories, Joe faces the terror of “the bad man” again. Rating T, WC 45,516
When I Was Twenty… (Pat D in PA)
SUMMARY: One of the Cartwrights reflects on his twentieth year.
WORD COUNT: 863
RATING: T/PG
When I was Twenty… (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Looking back on one night, when he was twenty. A Bonanza Brand 20th Anniversary Challenge
Rating: G (1,235 words)
My Age of Majority (by DJK)
Adam recounts the tale of his first engagement and Ben’s reaction. Written for the “When I Was Twenty” Challenge Rating: T Word count: 4479
The Patriot Game (by PatD in PA)
SUMMARY: This is the second of my “Pat Cartwright” stories, building an AU involving the Cartwrights of the Ponderosa. The Cartwrights become swept up in adolescent emotions, adult romance, an epidemic and a spot of Irish rebellion.
RATING: T/PG for adult themes
WORD COUNT: 132,367
The Baby Contest (By MelissaR1992)
Summary: In this semi-sequel to Rock-A-Bye Hoss, The baby contest is back in town and Joe Cartwright enters his little daughter, Sara Marie into the contest. Part of the Forever Reimagined series. Links to stories included within.
Rating: G
Word Count: 10,775
Let the World Stop Turning (by Wrangler)
Summoned back to Savannah to settle Clay’s estate, and accompanied by his father, Little Joe runs afoul of the law. Dogged by a zealous inspector, Ben and Joe learn the true circumstances behind Clay’s death, putting their lives in peril. Sequel to “In This Life”. Rating T, WC 50,000 In…
I Know What I’m Doing (I Think…) (by CareBear)
It’s all Cartwright hands on deck when Adam’s oldest daughter decides to join the fight for woman suffrage. Can they keep her safe or will her innate Cartwright conviction to stand up for what is right cost them, and her, everything? Rating: T; WC: 33,701
Dreams #2 – Epoch of a Dream (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Choosing to act on one’s dream was the easy part. Handling the aftermath with his family was easier than he expected. What more is there other than an epoch of a dream?
Rating: G (890 words)
Part of the Dreams series, links to stories included within.
A Good Shirt Is Hard to Find (by Tavia42)
Summary: In the Season 12 episode “El Jefe,” Joe is unaccountably wearing a red shirt. This is so strange and unprecedented that it required a What Happened Before to explain it.
Rating: G | Word Count: 2,293
Caught in a Storm (by JC)
Joe’s plans for a romantic rendezvous go awry when Mother Nature intervenes, but that’s not the worst of it…
Rating: T Word Count: 745
