Bonanza Legacy

DEBORAH G.

Ben:  "Today's story will be read by Deborah."
Adam & Hoss:  Making themselves comfortable in their favorite chairs.
Little Joe:  Sitting with his feet on the table.

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Deborah Grant
deborah.grant@juno.com

Title:   The World Was All Before Them
Rated: PG
Summary: This story begins with Adam's birth and his mother's death and covers his first five years.  It ends shortly before Ben and Adam will meet Inger Borgstrom.

Title: Veritas
Rating: PG
Summary: This story is about Adam's freshman year at Harvard. While it is mostly an Adam story, the other three Cartwrights are included.

Title: My True-Love Hath My Heart, Part 1
Rated: PG (implied sex)
Summary: This story is one explanation of why Adam might have settled in Australia as posited in the Bonanza sequels. While it is mostly an Adam story, the other Cartwrights (and Hop Sing) are included.

Title:   My True-Love Hath My Heart, Part 2
Rated: PG (implied sex)
Summary: Adam and Bronwen adjust to parenthood and life in the outback. While mostly an Adam story, the other Cartwrights (and Hop Sing) are included.

Title:   Family Reunion
Rated: PG (implied sex)
Summary: Adam, Bronwen and their daughters visit the Ponderosa.

Title:  A Real Nice Lady
Rated:  G
Summary:  “Inger, My Love” told from five-year-old Adam’s point of view.

Title: A Son and Heir
Rated:  PG (implied sex)
Summary:  After four daughters, will Adam and Bronwen finally have a son?

Title:  “To Bloom in Another Man’s Garden” Part 1

Rated:  PG (implied sex)  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted.
Summary:  Adam must deal with the fact that his little girls are becoming young women.

Title:   “To Bloom in Another Man’s Garden” Part 2
Rated:   PG (implied sex)  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted.
Summary:  Will Adam and Bronwen survive three teenaged daughters?  Will Penny and A.C. drive them to distraction?  Are there wedding bells in Beth’s future?  Will Miranda cope with living in Boston without her family?  For the answers, read on.

Title:  “In Memoriam”
Rated:  PG (death of a child, strong emotions, implied sex)  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted.
Summary:  Adam and Bronwen experience the most devastating loss any parent has to face.  They, and the rest of the Cartwright family, must struggle to accept their loss and deal with their grief.

Title:  O Tannenbaum
Rated:  G
Summary:   Adam tells his grandchildren the story of the Cartwrights' first Christmas tree.

Title:  “The Marriage Of True Minds" Part One
Rated:  PG (implied sex)  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted.
Summary:   This sequel to “In Memoriam” fills in some of the years between that story and “O Tannebaum”.  Part 1 covers 1894 through 1896.

Title:  “The Marriage Of True Minds" Part Two
Rated:  PG (implied sex)  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted.
Summary:   This sequel to “In Memoriam” fills in some of the years between that story and “O Tannebaum”.  Part 2 covers 1896 through 1898

Title:  “The Marriage of True Minds” Part 3 
Rated:  PG (implied sex)  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted
Summary:  The conclusion of this sequel to “In Memoriam” covers 1898 through 1900—a time of weddings and births.

Title:  Cartwright Is the Name
Rated: 
PG (implied sex) May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted
Summary: 
This story takes in 1883, a few years after my story, "Family Reunion".  It tells of Gwyneth’s and Penny’s first visit to the Ponderosa.

Title:  “A Gentleman and a Scholar” Part 1
Rated: 
PG  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted
Summary:
  The year is 1849—a year of dramatic changes for Ben Cartwright and his two sons, Adam and Hoss.  Men are pouring across the Sierra Nevadas in search of gold in California, and Ben has just arrived back at his ranch after a trip to New Orleans with a surprise for his boys.

Title:  “A Gentleman and a Scholar” Part 2
Rated: 
PG  May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted
Summary:
  Adam Cartwright has a dream that seems impossible—he wants to attend college. Will that dream remain forever out of his reach? This story is both a continuation of "A Gentleman and a Scholar, Part 1" and a prequel to my story "Veritas".

Title: The Country of the Heart
Rated: 
PG (implied sex)May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted
Summary:
  The year 1889 is one of many reunions among family and friends of the Cartwrights when Adam and Bronwen bring their children to visit the Ponderosa.

Title: My True-Love Hath My Heart, Part 3
Rated: 
PG (implied sex)May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted
Summary:
  This is the third story in my “Adam in the Outback” series. Adam and Bronwen learn that being the parents of two little girls only 10 months apart is not easy.

Title: Grow Old Along With Me
Rated: 
PG (implied sex)May not be suited for all readers...proceed accordingly.  By clicking on here you are adhering to the warning that has been posted
Summary:
  A.C. is off to the Technical College in Sydney, leaving Adam and Bronwen alone for the first time in 31 years. A secret that has been hidden for many years is about to be revealed.

Title: The Joys of Parents
Rated:  PG (mature themes)
Summary:   This is the fourteenth story in my sixteen part series, “Adam in the Outback”. Adam and Bronwen discover raising a teenage son is every bit as challenging as raising daughters.

Title: From This Day Forward
Rated:  PG (mature themes)
Summary:   Adam returns to the Ponderosa with a surprise for his family. An AU version of “My True-Love Hath My Heart”.

Title: The Best Is Yet To Be
Rated:  PG
Summary:   This is the sixteenth and final story in my “Adam in the Outback” series. It begins in 1908, two years after “Grow Old Along With Me”.




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