Bonanza
Adam Cartwrightfan fiction
Character · 662 works
Adam Cartwright turns up in 308 works open to everyone here. The average one runs about 16,100 words. Read any of them in your browser, save it as an EPUB, or listen to it.
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Things That Matter
by wx4rmk
Adam and his wife Cecily are raising a wonderful family on the Ponderosa. However, like all families, things don’t always go smoothly. This story will follow Adam and his family through the trials and tribulations of living in the western frontier. Please note: This story will contain some scenes of corporal punishment.
Bonanza (TV 1959)
A potentially explicit work
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Hopeful
by BettyHT
In The Hopefuls episode, Adam and Regina had been in love, but circumstances drove them apart. She kept a secret, and five years later, it causes dramatic changes in Adam's life.
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The Letter To Adam
by BettyHT
WHN for The Search episode. Anne writes a letter to Adam and he has to decide how to respond.
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At Dusk
by MissFaust
What has happened that has changed Adam so much? A story about the ravages of life and the endurance of love with references to ‘Triangle’ and ‘Forever.’
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Sojourner
by BettyHT
In this story written in three acts, Adam’s involvement with a young woman leads to discord within his family and when that is resolved in the first part (chapters 1-6), he leaves on a journey that affects him greatly in the second part (7-13). He will need his family once more to face the future in the third part (14-17).
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Guest Room
by pillow_fort_fanatic
The Ponderosa sometimes seems like a boarding house with all of the guests that come through. Adam briefly reflects on the reason for this.
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Black Cat
by BettyHT
A strange, unusual, and perhaps a bit weird out-of-this-world tale featuring Adam and explaining some things that happened on Bonanza with a supernatural twist.
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Charity Series #1 Fractured
by BettyHT
Fractured is a WHB to the Bonanza episode Bitter Water. This is the backstory that explains how Adam ended his relationship with Virginia Keith and why there was tension in his friendship with Todd McCarren and why Lem Keith disliked him so much. Charity is introduced in this story.
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A Worried Man
by BettyHT
Adam is in Boston pursuing a dream, but there are obstacles there too with corruption, pressure, and conflict, but he does meet someone who will be his ally and by his side through it all.
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Revelations
by BettyHT
Joe gets drafted but Adam volunteers to go in his place after arguing that it is the logical thing to do. He faces tragedies that would give anyone nightmares but he also finds great resiliency in the human spirit and great courage in the lives of ordinary people before he makes his way home, a man with a renewed commitment to family.
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Christmas Angel
by wx4rmk
Just when Adam thought the first Christmas without his wife couldn’t be bleaker, something magical happens. Written for the 2021 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar Challenge. Part of my 'Things That Matter' universe.
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Sydney and Evelyn
by BettyHT
Third in the Guitar Blues series: this is the backstory of Adam and Lyn explaining how they met and became a couple. It also introduces her brother, and their nemesis Maxwell, both of whom will show up in later stories.
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Michelle or Rayne?
by BettyHT
Adam has a romantic encounter with a classy working girl in Reno, but how will that affect his relationship with the woman at home that he has been seeing?
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Dear Diary
by BettyHT
A lady has a special night courtesy of the Cartwrights especially Adam who walks her home. There is some description of consensual sexual behavior.
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A Place to Sit
by BeckyS
Within the series, this is a prequel to The Battle, but does not need to be read first.
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Born For Adversity
by BettyHT
There's lots of painful trouble for Adam right from the start, but there is also a plan for revenge, subterfuge, false identities, fraud, financial difficulties for Ben and the Ponderosa, shocking developments for the family to absorb, and then a climatic confrontation between two villainous siblings and the Cartwright family.
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Damn, He Smells Good
by BettyHT
Three women and one man. How is he supposed to choose when all three want him, but he can only romance one?