Bonanza

All the stories listed on this page are related to Bonanza and nothing but Bonanza. Here, you will discover all you could ever wish to know about those fabulous Cartwrights and still clamor for more. There are prequels and sequels and genuine timeline adventures with all sorts of thrilling plot twists, including mystery, murder, and mayhem galore. We will always list the newest stories first, so you can spot them easily.

The Long Ride To Home by Susan

Firewater by Lisa M.

My Name Is Dorcas by Krystyna

Gone Fishing by Territell

Water Nymph by DJK

Everyone Cries Sometimes by Territell

Wildflowers by Calim 11

Arien

A Day in Town

The Truth Foretold

(What Happened Before for "The Pure Truth")

The Road That Lies Ahead

The World Goes Still

(What Happened Next for "My Brother's Keeper")

Arrenall

Not A Day Goes By

Yesterday's Child

Asher

Each Life Has Its Place

God Laughs

Remember Who You Are

Barbara

One Bad Day	The Spell	Puzzled
Wildfire	A Degree of Blame	Cabin Fever
Searching for Joseph	Survival	The Storm
The Letters - The Conclusion	Adam in Wonderland	The Correspondence (A series of letters between Adam and Ben)
The Price	Restitution	The Rewards of Kindness
Adam's Rib	Pride & Promises	Faith

Becky

A Place toSit	The Song	The Range Stallion
The Haircut, or A Day in Town	The Wherefore and The Why	Lessons from the Past
One Night in Spring (An "Inbetween" stor for the episode She Walks in Beauty)	A Rare Courage	Ghosts of a Christmas Past
A Friend for Jamie	The Battle	The Shootout
Dreams	Daughter of Night	The Best Gift of All

Blueyes

		Home Again (sequel to "The Return")
Adam and The Frogs	Deception	You're My Son
After The Run (What Happened Next in the episode "Bank Run")	The Return	Winnemucca
The Child	Once Upon A Time (poem)	A Rose for Lotta (What Happened Next)

Calim 11

	Wildflowers	A Moment Revisited (The finale of the Moment series and What Happens Next for the episode “Vengeance”)
A Moment Given (Part of the “A Moment” series and What Happened Next for the episode “Vengeance”)	A Moment Feared (Sequel to "A Moment Later" and What Happened Next for the episode "Vengeance")	A Moment Later (Sequel to "A Moment Lost" and What Happened Next for the episode "Vengeance")
A Moment Lost (sequel to "A Moment" and What Happened Next for the episode Vengeance)	A Moment (What Happened In-Between and What Happened Next for "Vengeance")	The Light Home (WHN - The Crucible and sequel to "What The Vultures Will Bring")
What The Vultures Will Bring (What Happened Next - The Crucible)	To Bed, To Bed	Absolution
A Flame Diminished	Benita Watson	The One Somewhere in the Night

Carla

Living in Fear

The Argument

Christy

The Heart of a Hero

Becoming A Man

For The Love of Little Joe

Claire

My Son, My Son	Relatively Festive	I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
When Will I See You Again?	Follow the Stars	Relatively Peaceful
Relatively Speaking	Relative Values	Star of the Sea
The Earth Will Hold Us	Tempt Not the Stars	Epiphany
Love Will Tear Us Apart	The World is the Totality of Facts	Reflections
That Shrinking Feeling	The Beltane Fires	The Land Dispute

Corinna

		Heroes
Worry (Companion piece to the story "Invicible"	Invincible	Riding On Faith
A World Of Hurt	Blood Bonds	Night Of The Sword
Another Chance (What-Happened-Instead for the episode "Second Chance")	Legacy's Promise (What Happened Instead for the episode "The Legacy")	Strength Of Conviction (What Happened Next for the episode "Vengeance")

Dcat

Disobedience

The Safety of a Father's Arms

(based on the episode The Gift)

Tradition at Dawn

The Long Ride from Montpelier

(What Happened In-Between for the episode My Brother's Keeper)

Deb

		To Always Hope
To Help A Stranger	What Might Have Been	To Listen: An Art Worth Learning

Debbie Ann

	The Memory of Mama	The Day After (What Happened Next after the episode "The Avenger")
A Reason To Give Thanks	The Reflection of You	In Remembrance...
Ben's New Dilemma	A Line Drawn	Not My Fault
A Summer Secret	Terrors in the Night	Ben's Dilemma

Debbie B.

		Death Of An Angel
While I Was Away	Baring Souls (A Continuation of the story "Between Brothers")	Between Brothers
Thoughts - A Story in Six Voices	Where Love Once Lived	When the Storm Passes
The Green Eyed Monster	For All Mothers	Thoughts On Being A Father
Easter - It's More'n Bunny Rabbits and Colored Eggs	Jingle Bells	Too Many Fast Guns
Never Start What You Can't Finish (sequel to Two Painted Ponies, One Tender Heart)	Two Painted Ponies, One Tender Heart	Beating Death's Game
Why Jesus is Better than Santa	A Well Too Deep	That's How It Felt
How Do You Say Goodbye?	Where There's Life, There's Hope	Lonely Hearts Passing in the Night
The Dark Side of the Rainbow (Sequel to "Part of the Rainbow")	Part of the Rainbow	Night Callers
Stuck	Shared Guilt	To Cry In Vain
Whose Child Is This?	Happy Birthday, Big Brother	Like Father, Like Son
A Letter to Mama on Mother's Day	Death Rides a Black Horse	A Handful of Faith
Hell or High Water...The Day Will Come	Standing on Principles	A Better Day Tomorrow
Reflections, Of My Father	Sacred Ground	A Brother's Love
Ellen, My Love	Home Is Where Love Dwells	Why Didn't She Love Me?
One More Brother (A What Happened Next Story for “Credit for A Kill”)	Brothers Til The End	Love Is Like A Violin
Life...It's All About Love (What Happened Next story: The Stallion…with a little Forever tossed in.)	Gun for Hire	Price of Friendship (A What Happened Next Story: Between Heaven and Earth
A Pa for Toby	Tempted to Steal	A Reversal of Roles
To Hell and Back	In the Name of Love	Skeletons Unleashed
A Kiss to Die For	An Arm and A Leg and An Eye for An Eye (sequel to the story "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine)	A Letter From Adam
That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine	A Question of Intent	Echoes from the Canyon
Broken Promise	The Empty Box	A Fistful of Regret
The Time of Day	Happy Birthday, Pa	The Hangin' Tree
Half of Nothing, All of Everything	A Royal Pain	How Do I Love Thee?
Through the Valley of the Shadown of Death	Adam's Story	Little Man, Big Man
From Dreams to Reality (sequel to Gossamer Dreams)	First Notch	Gossamer Dreams
Hollow's Eve	Love At Its Best	Until He Turns Eighteen
Be Careful What You Wish For!	The Last Laugh	A Choice to Make
Restitution's Rewards	Thicker Than Water	Measuring Up
Time Will Tell	Big Brother Hoss	Heart of Clay
The Last To Go	The Detour Home	Renewal
Our Secret Love's No Secret Anymore	Happy Father's Day, Pa	The Final Score
But For The Grace of God	Crystal Ball Predictions	Settling The Score
A Score to Settle	Little Jonah	Never Too Old To Learn
Sorry Ain't Enough	The Color of Chocolate	When Death Comes Callin'
A Poor Man's Roses	Between A Rock and A Hard Place	If I'm Dreaming, Don't Wake Me
Are You or Aren't You? (Part 2 of "If I'm Dreaming")	Fight for Life	Happy Mother's Day, Pa
Sticks and Stones	Tied in Knots	One Lucky Man
From Inside One's Own Self	Your Name is Joe	Sting of Death
The Hunted	Questions and Answers	Without Malice
Two Hearts, Seventeen Hands	Be There A Stranger Among Us?	Coming To Terms
Greater Love Hath No Man	Seven Times In A Day	Silent Heartache
Disenchanted	The Whipping	To Honor Thy Father
Twenty Years Hard Labor	The Sound of His Weeping	A Night of Reflections
Back to Reality	Love, Oh Love, Oh Careless Love	A Tale of Two Feathers
A Winter of Hope ("A Tale of Two Feathers" from the viewpoint of the other Cartwrights)	An Old Acquaintance (Sequel to "A Tale of Two Feathers")	A Final Goodbye (A continuation of the story, "A Tale of Two Feathers")

Debbie L.

		Before Christmas
New Orleans Moonlight	Aftermath	Passages
Given the Circumstances	Thoughts While Riding Home at Dusk	Transgressions (What Happens Next for the episode "Vengeance")
The Desert (What Happens Next for the episode "The Crucible")	Cold (What Happens Next for the episode "My Brother's Keeper")	Stray
Death, Defiance and A Fine Day For A Swim (A What Happens Next story for the episode "The Julia Bulette Story")	Reckoning (What Happens Next for "The Tin Badge")	Gravity
Interlude	Abide (Sequel to "The Return")	The Return

Debra P.

		The Sniper and The Healer
The Cry of the Dove	Not Such A Stranger	Out of the Shadows
Wandering Stars	The Tin Cup	A Gem Without Price
The Night After "Death at Dawn"	Encounter with the Past	Three Christmas Cards

Diana

		The Best Laid Scheme?
The Best Medicine	The English Rose	More than Money
The Better Man?	A Summer Affair	Taken on Trust
Carried on the Wind	The Birth of a Man	The Journey to Heartbreak
Treasure From Trigo (sequel to Trouble in Trigo)	Trouble in Trigo	Consequences Unforeseen
A Man's First Duty	Out of Mind	Days of Discovery

DJK

		Water Nymph
Who?	Happy Birthday, Hoss!	Just At Checkers
Sippin' Whiskey And Sally Lynn	Hidden Wings	Ben's Boy Adam
By Step, By Half And By Heart	What's Keeping Them Now?	A Blue Plate Special
Don't Speak of That	Love Comes Late	Big Ears, Big Fears
Remember the Breaking	Tucked Away	Deciding Is The Hardest Thing To Do
Girls, Guns and Getting Grown - Story 2	Girls, Guns, and Getting Grown	Sally Lynn
Ben's Boys	I've Got A Secret	San Francisco Dragons (Sequel to "Lady Emily's Choice", 5tn story in the Emily series)
The Left-Handed Holster	Caught Red-handed	Night Ride
The Imp, Some Demons and a Few Short Lists (Sequel to "Adam and The Imp of Satan")	Fifty Dollars	To Escape The Ponderosa
Five Bits	Lady Emily's Choice (Sequel to "Quest on D Street")	When The Big Man Falls
Shadow Enemy	Between First Borns	Quest on D Street (Sequel to "Tarnished Armor")
Tarnished Armor (Sequel to "Emily's Sir Eric")	Adam and the Imp of Satan	Any Horse You Can Ride, I Can Ride Faster
Emily's Sir Eric	Two on the Town	To the Victors

Donna

Joe's Way

Christmas Comes Early

There'll Never Be Another

(poem)

Little Joe's Horse

(poem)

No More Eggs

(What Happens Next: "Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing")

Doolittle

When Sorrows Come

(What Happened Next for "The Crucible")

Hope Springs Eternal

(What Happened In-Between in "The Hopefuls"

Doreen

	Making An Effort	The Long Ride Home (A Missing Scene for the episode "The Quest")
A Note For Santa A Christmas What Happened Instead for the episode "The Firstborn"	Regrets and Resolutions A New Year's What Happened Next for the story "A Note For Santa"	Soul Mates
Family	Bad News	The Whistle
Travesty of Justice (What Happened Next for "The Quality of Mercy")	Never Say Never (Sequel to Playing Soldiers)	Playing Soldiers
Dead on Time	Lost Brother	Seasons
Waiting	Reflections Under a Starry Sky (A combined What Happens Next for "Decision at Los Roblos" and "The Legacy")	If Only...
Dreams (A personal perspective on What Happened Next for "My Brother's Keeper"	Marie's Boys (What Happens Next for the episode "The Storm")	The Meadow
A Change of Direction (What Happened Next for the episode "The Code")	The Pain Goes On and On...	The Gambler and The Cowboy

Emmie

Truth Be Told	Second Sight	Heart & Home
Journey

EPM

	Night Sounds	Payment Due
Redemption	Options	Perchance to Dream
A Quiet Storm	Premonition	Small Gifts
And Hell Rode With Him	Seeing Old Friends	Delusions
Good-byes	Lost and Found	The Protector
A Tree for Maggie	First Dance	Unseen Link
The Trust	The Same Coin	Among the Bones of My Ancestors
Reflected Images	What's Right	Laugh in the Dark

The Giggly Sisters

		Be Prepared
Kidnapping The Brothers	Christmas is Coming	Just What You Always Wanted
Thanksgiving	Bloomers and Corsets?	Bonanza - An Intermediate Guide to the Series
Trick or Treat	Hanging Around	Maims and Mayhem
A Gynecological Disaster	Waste Not, Want Not	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
The Ranch House	Who Spake by the Prophet	The Party
The Patriarch of the Ponderosa	A Stitch in Time	The Horses
A Spoof for Stephen	Spring Forward	In a Manner of Speaking
The Never-Ending Song	Reading, Writing and Reeling	This Sporting Life
A Little Night Music	Picture This	Confusion
I Beg Your Pardon	Musical Chairs	The Mystery of the Room Behind the Stairs
Muffins and Moustaches in the Morning	Whatever Happened to the Lovely Mothers?	Is This A Fireplace I See Before Me?
Mirror, Mirror...	If You Want To Get Ahead...	Home Thoughts
Help Wanted	It's a Serious Business, Being Funny	Dressing for Success
From The Horses' Mouth	Changing Rooms	Doctor Martin's Casebook
An Apple a Day	An Indoor Bathroom	All About Adam
Just Another Unfortunate Accident	A Trip To Town	Many Heads Make Light Work

Ginny

Fire Wind

The Dragon's Roar

The Noose

Echo of Hoof Beats

(A What Happened Before story for "The Mill")

Together

(co-written with Robin)

Un Temps Différent, un Endroit Different

(A different view of the episode "The Julia Bulette Story")

Double Take

Legend of the Grizzly

Echoes of Twilight

(A "What Happened Next" for the episode "Twilight Town")

Light Up The Winter Darkness

(co-written with Robin)

Afterwards

(What transpired between Ben and Adam in the episode "My Brother's Keeper")

The Search

(What happened next for the episode "The Stranger")

Harper

The Westerner

(sequel to The Tenderfoot and The Easterner)

The Founder's Day Race

A Life To Be Proud Of

The Tenderfoot

(sequel to The Easterner)

Holdin' the Cut

Welcome Home, Pa

The Easterner

Hazelmom

	Cold Harbor	Half A Man
Geneva	The True Character of a Man	Doing The Right Thing

J C

Beginnings

Bonanza's On

(An Ode to Christmas)

A Day in the Life

Shirtless Joe

Prelude

Night Trilogy

The Guardian

Jane

Inside the Mine

(companion piece to "A Man Alone")

A Man Alone

Lost at Sea

A String of Bad Luck

The Intruders

The Fever

Ambush

Jenn

The Escape: Journey Back To Boston

(Sequel to "College Years")

College Years

	Fugue (Sequel to the story "The Lady Laywer")	Ten Hours
Fine (What Happened Next for the episode The Last Viking	After The Storm (What Happened Next for the episode The Storm)	Coming Home
Doubt (continuation of the stories "The French Piano Player" and "Be Still My Soul")	Brother Daniel	Knowing (What Happened Next for the episode Bullet For A Bride)
The Lady Lawyer	Romeo	The Protectors
Be Still, My Soul (Sequel to The French Piano Player)	Blessed	The French Piano Player

Judy

A Lesson in Vocabulary	Family	Gypsy
Winter Break	Blood Brothers	You Gotta Have Heart
Inner Conflict	The Golden Rule	Silver Lining
The Fastest	Growing Pains	Small Kindnesses
Ponderosa Christmas	The Christmas Gift	Christmas Spirit

Julee

A Father's Prerogative

The Telling

(What Happened Next for the episode The Crucible)

Settling the Score

Just Plain Lucky

The Keepsake

Jules

Gypsy Curses

Jeb Carter's Ghost

Mirror Image

Showdown

(What Happened Next for The Julia Bulette Story)

Julie

The Way It Wasn't

Julie-Ann

The Way Things Are

K. K. Shaulis

Not So Earyl One Mornign	Omniscient, Omnipotent, Impotent?	Power of the Pen(cil)
Snake Bit	Magical Mistletoe	Shirt Tale
Sorehead Winner	Fixing Joe	Not So Fine Print
Hop Sing's Twig	Flight of Fancy	Snow on the Roof
A Friend Indeed	One of a Kind	A Burning Desire
Cattle Call	Simple as Pie	The Wrong Side of the Law
Good to the Last Drop-Seat?	Broken Promises	Words of Wisdom
Happy New Year of the Goat, Pa!	The Dang Fool Woman and the Impossible Man	Adam Imitations

Kate

Infatuated	Witch Wind	Threshold
Kinship	Encounter at Oxbow	Ringgold
Chaos	Betrayal	A Penny for Your Problems
Miss David Returns	Defending Miss David	Restitution

Kathleen

	Poltergeist	Where Angels Fear To Tread
Cinnamon Rose	Bloodlines	The Guardian

Kenda

A Fitting Goodbye

Circumstances Beyond Our Control

(A "missing scene" from the episode "A Matter of Circumstances")

Grief Written Across A Celadon Sky

(A "missing scene" from the episode "The Stillness Within")

Krystyna

	My Name Is Dorcas	Winter
Frogs, Books and Sticky Things	Amen and Amen	Held Up By A Hold Up
Pain	On A Wedding Day	A World Upside Down
The Ravine	Veroon	The Story of a Gentle Man
The Outlaws	The Choice	A Journey to Death
Shades of War	The Widow	The Sword of Damocles
Touched by An Angel	Kane's Legacy	Some Kind of Man
And Amen To All That	Dearly Beloved	Loved and Lost
Mea Culpa	The Man in the Middle	The Man Cub

Linda B.

	Dearly Beloved	Birthday Gift
The Price You Pay	Farewell Forever, My Brother	Autumn Storm

Linda J.

Troubled Past

Blind Man's Bluff

Linda V.

	For A Fistful Of Dollars	Oh, Bull!
Necessity is the Mother of Invention	Child in the Middle	Buried Alive!!!

Lisa M.

		Firewater
Renegade Star	Suffer the Children	Forged By Fire
Unknown Fate	The SJS	Emergence of a Man

Lobo C.

The Haunted

(poem)

(poem)

Lynda

Revenge	Deadline	The Race
Knights Out West	At Loggerheads

Lynette

	Home for Christmas	Always and Forever Be
To Become A Man	Anything for Family	Vengeance
To Remember Always	An Unforgettable Son	A Long Way From Home