Bonanza: Jenny Guttridge page

Many Thanks to Gwynne Logan for providing us with these stories. We're grateful that Jenny's treasure won't be lost to the Bonanza Fans.

FOR JENNY

The world of Bonanza lost one of its finest creative writers with the untimely passing of Jenny Guttridge on March 9, 2004. The author of several published Star Trek stories in the 1960’s and a long time Bonanza fan, Jenny resumed writing in the late 1990’s and gave us inventive, original and beautifully crafted stories such as “A Gunfighting Man,” “The Spanish Bride” and “Mary Knox’s Christmas.” She had a gift not only for words but for understanding the human mind and soul as well.

Her evocative descriptive passages that involve all the senses and transport the reader immediately into the time and place of the story linger long in the memory, as do her realistic portraits of the Cartwrights in both peaceful moments and in crisis. Jenny loved the American West and carefully researched all her factual material.

More than just a fine writer, Jenny was a wise, witty and caring person and a good and generous friend who always gave love and support from her heart. She encouraged new writers with her kind comments and unfailingly thanked those who stories she enjoyed or who wrote her about her own work.

Her going is a loss to us all. She will be long remembered and deeply missed.

Gwynne Logan, her friend and beta reader

A dark story. Snake bitten on the trail, Adam is captured by white slavers, tortured by his twisted captors and sold into hard labor in Canada while his frantic family searches for him.

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A subtlety haunting story written for Halloween. Caught out in a fierce thunderstorm, Joe and Adam take shelter in a long abandoned house where shadows of the past may still linger.

Adam picks another dubious friend, and the Cartwrights find themselves held in thrall by a being that brings out the dark sides of their natures. A Halloween story.

A hunting trip turns into an ordeal and an exercise in endurance when Joe and Adam are captured by the Shoshoni.

Forced to overnight in an ancient burial ground, the Cartwright sons meet up with the unexpected – living and dead. A Halloween story.

Mrs. Hennesey’s Trading Post and Whiskey Emporium provides the Cartwright boys with shelter from some nasty weather and quite a lot more than they expected, or Adam wanted. A comedy of errors.

Just how much trouble can Adam get into while killing time in a sleepy town.

A just for fun story that asks the question, ‘What does it take to drive Adam to desperate measures?’

A blizzard in the high Sierras is no place to spend Christmas Eve as Ben finds out. A Christmas tale.