The Best of the West
Bonanza Fan Fiction
As It's Meant To Be!
Literate Writing about the Cartwrights We Grew Up With
Bonanza, the series characters and the basic premise of Bonanza, are the property of David Dortort and Bonanza Ventures and it is not our intention to infringe upon their rights in presenting these stories.  No profit is being made from this site.

Bonanza Fan Fiction Original Cast


MASTER LIST [BY STORY TITLE]

MASTER LIST [BY AUTHOR]

New Stories!

Updated December 2008!!!

Special  Pages

Ponderosa Fan Fic
After some discussion we decided to add a page of links to selected Ponderosa stories.  As this is a separate fandom with distinct canon and characters (despite the characters having the Cartwright names), they will be listed only in this separate category.  If you select a story on a Bonanza character or category page, you will not find any Ponderosa stories.  Most of the titles are links to special stories on the comprehensive fanfic site Tales of the Ponderosa
Stories for Holidays & Birthdays
Christmas, New Years, Halloween, Birthdays, 4th of July, Thanksgiving etc.
Suggestions for Additional Stories Welcome
Author's Choice 
Authors  choose their favorite self-penned stories.
[Any authors who haven't sent their favorites may send them any time.  No final deadlines.  Authors may also send reasons or additional reasons anytime.]
Author Inspirations
Authors choose the stories by other writers that inspired them either as readers or writers or otherwise got them started.
Tip of Our Hat
We take a page to tip our hats to good authors and/or stories not posted here.

Check out:
Becky Sims' Cast Bios, Bonanza Background & Writing Advice
&
 A Little Lesson in Speaking [& Writing] Western Horse
from Irish of the Tahoe Ladies

POSTING SCHEDULE:   Our basic intent is to collect a library of well written stories - a place for a new reader to start out with the best and for other readers to find old favorites.  Many of the stories we're gathering are "classics," not stories newly written or new to the internet. We probably won't post any updates until we have at least a dozen stories to add. [We will update the opinion forums more often if someone sends an opinion they'd like to share.]    There are a few Bonanza sites out there adding new stories on a daily or weekly basis and doing a nice job of it.  [Check our links page.]  We're not trying to compete with them.  Consider us an archive.

READER NOMINATIONS:  We welcome reader nominations for both our general postings and our specialty pages, such as the page for holiday/birthday stories.  Nominated stories will be sent to the selection committee.  For a story to be accepted, it must receive at least five votes from committee members.  Only about 25% of the stories reviewed are accepted for posting.  If you have it, send URLS or story documents or the story's website location to nominations@williamsmith.org

If a story is accepted, we'll contact the author for her original document.  We do not post stories without explicit permission of the author and do not take stories from other websites, even with permission of the author.

Check our Tip of Our Hat page for authors or stories we'd like to have but for one reason or another -- don't.
 

Email us at:  opinions@williamsmith.org

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About This Site
Who do we think we are, why are we doing this?
Our Fan Fiction Criteria
Standards & Practices
 Bonanza Fan Fiction Master Index
Alphabetical by Title
Bonanza Fan Fiction Master Index
Alphabetical by Author
ADAM Stories
JOE  Stories
HOSS Stories
BEN Stories
WHOLE FAMILY Stories
YOUNG CARTWRIGHTS Stories
COMEDIES
JUST FOR FUN [COMEDY LITE]
POST-TIMELINE Stories 
JAMIE, CANDY, HOP SING, GRIFF Stories
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE Stories 
DEATH FICS
Fan Fiction RESOURCES
Character Bios & More
Bonanza Fanfic LINKS
Site Forum
  Input & Opinions from Readers, Authors, Site Owners 
PONDEROSA Fan Fic

Bonanza post-Adam cast


Bonanza, the series characters and the basic premise of Bonanza, are the property of David Dortort and Bonanza Ventures and it is not our intention to infringe upon their rights in presenting these stories.  No profit is being made from this site.

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