Bonanza Legacy

VICKI C.

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


newstories






Vicki Christian
vicki.christian@ntlworld.com

Title:  Among Tall Trees     Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G   (Short story)
Summary:  After Inger's death Ben, Adam and baby Hoss journey west.  Adam makes a new friend and the family find a new home.

Title:  The Solitary Way    Click on title to email author for story         
Rated: PG           
Summary: The period of Adam Cartwright's life from Marie's arrival at the Ponderosa until after Joe's  birth.

Title:  The Good Samaritan    Click on title to email author for story
Rated: G  (short story)
Summary: Ben tries to teach a young Hoss the parable of 'The Good Samaritan' but Hoss turns the tables on him and Ben learns the real meaning of the story.

Title:  Sweet Caroline    Click on title to email author for story    
Rated: PG13  (short story)         
Summary: First love can be painful in more ways than one. When Adam first begins to explore the world of girls and love the whole family find this out as they and he try to come to terms with his growing pains.

Title:  Hidden Talents   Click on title to email author for story
Rated G  (short story) 
Summary:  Hoss is having trouble at school and uses a boast of Adam's to help him out.  The boast threatens to have tragic consequences when Adam feels obliged to carry it through.

Title:  Reflections Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG13
Summary:  While waiting for Ben to come home, Marie reflects on her past and what her fate might have been had she not met him.

Title:  Promises   Click on title to email author for story
Rated: PG
Summary: The story of Marie and her relationship with Adam told in flashback.

Title:  The Canoe Trip     Click on title to email author for story  
Rated: G   (short story)
Summary: Adam and his friend Ross decide to take a fishing trip, to Adam's dismay two little brothers manage to go along too. Of course with a mischievous six-year-old along the trip is not quite what Adam had planned.

Title:  Hard Lessons    Click on title to email author for story
Rated: PG13              
Summary: Follow up to Promises, deals with the aftermath of Marie's death.

Title:  Missing   Click on title to email author for story
 Rated: G
Summary:  Adam reads a letter from Hoss that makes him realise how much he misses his brothers.  Hoss and Joe are missing their bossy older brother, he had his uses!  Ben is simply worried about his youngest sons who are MISSING.

Title: The Impossible Dream      Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   X
Summary:  Volume 1:   The story of Adam’s first year in college, its highs and lows as he changes from boy to man. 

Title:  Special Bond   Click on title to email author for story
Rated: G
Summary: The bond between brothers and a boy and a horse. Set on Adam's return from college.  The first story I wrote of the adventures of the Cartwrights.

Title:  A Chill In The Air    Click on title to email author for story
Rated: G  (short story)
Summary: Through their troubles the Cartwrights are gently reminded of the true meaning of Christmas.

Title:  Crossing Swords   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   PG
Summary:  Adam tried to get Joe out of trouble with Pa and Miss Jones but only succeeds in making trouble for himself.

Title:  Treasures in the Attic   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G (short story)
Summary:  Adam and Joe bring down some trunks from the attic and Pa relates a hundred year old  family story to amuse a bored Little Joe on a winter’s day.

Title:  Voice from the Past   Click on title to email author for story
Rated: PG
Summary: Ben falls in love with a mirror image of his first wife.

Title:  Hands    Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   G (short story)
Summary:  Joe and Adam plan on an afternoon at the summer picnic, unfortunately their plans aren't compatible.  Hoss has plans too but he ought to know better than to listen to Joe if he wants a quiet boys' afternoon!

Title:  A Clear Cut Case    Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG (short story)
Summary:  Joe defends a friend accused of murder when all the evidence is against him

Title:  Unwillingly to School    Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G  (short story)
Summary:   The Cartwright boys are only too willing to help out the new schoolteacher.  This causes a little conflict between them but Adam and Joe learn that you should never jump to conclusions.   

Title:  Always There    (from the first Convention Anthology)   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   G  (short story)
Summary:  Brothers are always there for each other no matter what the circumstances

Title:  Ripples on the Lake    (from the first Convention Anthology)   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   G  (short story)
Summary:  Ben fights progress and his sons, but can he fight with a professional engineer sent to build a railway on Lake Tahoe? 

Title:  The Gunpowder Plot  Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  A sequel to Treasures in the Attic - Joe persuades his father and a very reluctant Adam, to tell the story of the black powder.

Title:  Snakes Alive   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  A young Joe begs for a new story to while away another winter's afternoon.  Ben responds by telling how a simple request for Adam to find Hoss a new pastime rebounds on him.

Title:  The Alibi  Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG
Summary:  Sixteen year old Joe is jail.  Dare he tell Adam and Pa his alibi. Only when he realises the seriousness of the crime does he decide to act like a man and reveal his whereabouts.  But will Pa ever accept him as a grown man?

Title:  It's the Thought That Counts   Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa Story)
Rated:  G
Summary: It's close to Christmas and Ben's sons are acting strangely.

Title:  The Christmas Engine   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   G
Summary:b> Good little boys always get what they ask for at Christmas, even if Santa has to have a little help sometimes.

Title:  The Sailboat    Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   PG
Summary:  On the eve of Joe's wedding the three boys meet at the lake and the discovery of their old sailboat causes them to remember the first time Joe went sailing!  In the course of the tale we find out why Adam's name does not appear on the witness tree.

Title:   Home of the Eagle   Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa prequel short story)
Rated:   G
Summary:  The Cartwrights arrive in Pueblo de las Ponderosas, its late in the season and Marie is ill.  Will they be able to find the very last wagon train to attempt the Sierras in the 1846 season or will they be marooned in the town with few provisions and even less money.  Ben sets out to solve their problems but creates more for himself and his family.

Title:A New Beginning   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG
Summary:  A Ponderosa short story. A Sequel to Home of the Eagle. The Cartwright family settle into Eagle Station and Eagle Station begins to grow, but the defeated Mexicans have other ideas.

Title:A Tangled Web Click on title to email author for story (a Ponderosa Story)
Rated:   G
Summary:  When Pa says in "Joaquin" that he thought they had the gun question settled a year ago, what did he mean?  Adam thinks back to hs twentieth year and how Pa came to that conclusion.

Title:  The Culprit Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa Story)
Rated:  G
Summary: b>  A Ponderosa story, but only the Cartwrights appear, so can be read as for a Bonanza prequel. The storeroom door is left open and a raccoon causes damage - Pa wants to know who is responsible!

Title: The sermon Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary: All the Cartwright boys know you should concentrate on the Sermon in church, but sometimes you can't help your thoughts wandering.

Title:  The Gift of Love Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG
Summary:  Adam's new love comes as a surprise to his family and hers.  Can they win through against the odds?

Title:  Which Came First? (Adam or the Egg?) Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa Story)
Rated:  G
Summary:  Adam forgets to watch what he says in front of Pa and ends up with an unexpected boss and a chore he would rather not have.

Title:  Pandora's Box Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG
Summary:  Little Joe learns that opening a locked box can release troubles and cause all manner of problems.

Title:  Yard Chores
Rated:  G
Summary: Six-year-old Joe asks his big brother what he can do and Adam comes to regret telling him.

Title:  The British Ally Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG
Summary:  Is Kenney just after the Ponderosa or does he have hidden allies. What of Kit Hammond, is the British heir to the Circle H really Ben’s ally or his enemy.

Title:  One Good Term Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  PG
Summary:  Trouble for the Cartwrights in San Francisco. Ben finds out that deeds he did in his past come back to haunt him; fortunately it’s the good deeds that prove to be most useful. (Also available in the 2002 Convention Anthology)

Title:  Lady in Waiting Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  A young lady invites the Cartwrights to her birthday party and then waits for the right man to ask her to dance. But who is the right man? (Also available in the 2002 Convention anthology)

Title:  Through the Mist Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  The bond between brothers is strong, but is it as strong as Hoss believes. (only available in the 2005 Convention Anthology)

Title:  The Bottle Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  Uncle Aaron sends the Cartwrights a mysterious bottle purchased on his travels. When they drink from it, strange things happen to the Ponderosa. (Especially written for those who attended the 1999 convention, but fun for everyone)

Title:  Joaquin Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa Story)
Rated:  G
Summary:  I always thought that there was a scene missing in this show. After the vigilantes leave. What did Ben say to Adam when he finished their little talk?

Title:  Winter Sport Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa Story)
Rated:  G
Summary:  Adam uses his engineering and wood working skills to build something. And the term boys will be boys, can be applied to all the Cartwrights.

Title:  Wagon Wheels Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa Story)
Rated:  G
Summary: My answer to the January 2005 challenge picture from the pilot episode. What is Adam building and where did he find the materials.

Title:  Too Late Click on title to email author for story (A Ponderosa Story)
Rated:  PG
Summary:  Jack Roberts realises too late what he has missed in his life

Title:  The Black Stallion Click on title to email author for story)
Rated:  G
Summary:  A wild horse helps Adam and Joe come to a new understanding

Title:  The Coffee Pot Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  The keeper of the coffee pot hears everything, as Ben learns.

Title:  The Rabbit Drive Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  A short piece about the Nevada Native Americans traditional rabbit drive and how a Cartwright joined in.

Title:  The Stagecoach Whip Click on title to email author for story
Rated:  G
Summary:  Adam and Joe remember a wild stagecoach journey when they read of the death of the driver in the newspaper.

 

Pat Thompson Dumas and Vicki Christian

Title:  The New Hand - first in a series   Click on title to email author for story
Rated:   Write In  (explicit sex)
Summary:b> If you've read about Patrick in Pat's previous stories then here he is again.  Started as a challenge to help us write characters, it has no intended plot.  It is written like real life with twists and turns dependent on the characters reactions to situations.  Ponderosa Enterprizes is growing and Ben advertises for a bookeeper.   He employs the best applicant, despite Adam's reservations. 

Title:b>Duty Bound  (Second Part of the Saga) (click on title to email authors for story)
Rated:  X
Summary:  Sequel to The New Hand. Follow on from The New Hand, this chronicles the early years of Adam’s marriage and is written in the same style as New Hand, it has no plot and no happy ending, it as written as it happens, like life.

Title:b>Full Circle (Third Part of the Saga) (click on title to email authors for story)
Rated:  X
Summary:  Adam returns to the Ponderosa with his family in crisis. Can being home put his lfie back together again.

Vicki Christian
With additional material by Pat Thompson Dumas

Title:b>Pastures New (Fourth Part of the Saga)  (click on title to email author for story)
Rated:  X
Summary:  Adam faces a new challenge, will this be the move that fulfils his needs.


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