The real Cartwright on the Pobderosa Ranch not the Hollywood story!!!

                   LIFE ON THE PONDEROSA

Life on the Ponderosa Ranch was hard and growling, especially for a single father with two lads. The year was 1830. Pa who name was Ben Cartwright, was a young eager father with two boys, the oldest being Adam Benjamin Cartwright and the youngest being Eric "Hoss" Cartwright at the time.

Young Adam decides he is going to help his Pa build the Ponderosa house, Adam who is smart and charming plans out a rough draft of the house, an presents his to his Pa the winter of 1830. Finally when they reached an agreement of the layout of the house construction began in the Spring of 1830! Finally with the help is his two sons they house was finished in a little over a year it was the Spring of 1831.

As you enter into the house you walk into the formal living room, which was a nice big room open with a huge fire place built out of stone from the Rocky Mountains that ran thru the heart of the Ponderosa ranch.  the L shape stair case went up stairs to 4 bedrooms, Adam room was the first door on the right as you walk up the stairs and Hoss's room was the second door on the right just down from Adam's. there was two bedrooms on the left side of the house which were used for guest rooms for now.

Going back down stairs just beyond the fire place a nice master bedroom where Pa sleep! That's right Ben Cartwright actually slept downstairs!! Just beyond his room was the formal dinning area, with a huge kitchen off to the left and a guest bedroom leading off from the dinning room! Inside the dinning room there was a beautiful picture window out looking towards the Rocky Mountains.

The Summer of 1831 Pa meets the love of his life Marie and they get married! Marie who got pregnant right away gave birth to a beautiful son Joseph Fancis Cartwright in 1832. Unfortunetly for Marie she died giving birth to little Joe. Pa was left with three sons and no wife to help raise them! Adam being the oldest of the brothers took on the father role when pa was away, trying to build up the live stock for the Cartwright ranch. Sometime in 1936 Pa feel in love with a girl named Robin, she just happened to be the sister of Elizabeth Adam's mother and in 1937 Pa an Robin got married.
Robin gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and they named her Audra Elizabeth Cartwright. Adam and Audra share a special bond being there are half brother and sister and full blooded cousins. Two yeas later Ma died to a snake bite and Audra was just 2 years old herself. Leaving Pa and the boys to raise her all by themselves.

Adam took on most of the responsablity while Pa was away raising Hoss, Joe, and myself and also disiplining us. All three of us looked up to big brother Adam for guidance, he was smart and well educated. Adam was harder then Pa when it came to correction our unexcusable actions, he had a way of calling you out little by little and letting you lie and he smirk the whole time them he total bust you out. The spanking in those times were brutal. Even though Adam was hard on us we did love him very much!

Hoss on the other hand was kind, gentle, and a real bush over, wait a sec by push over I am gualable!
I could tell Hoss anything and he believe it. that is why I love him so very much. Hoss was tall, big boned and a lot of people were afraid of him, but little did they know this big giant was as soft and gentle as any tine man could be!

Then there is Joe! Joe was kind, strong willed, hard headed, he was a lot more like Adam but he was much more fast tempered. Joe was the one who shoot you with out asking to many question when it came to one of us being hurt by a gunslinger. But when it came to be Joe and I fought and argued a lot many because we were close in age and we were the babies of the family. Joe loves nothing more them to tell on me to Pa and Adam. Even though him and I fought a lot he is very special to me in anyways, and we hold a bond like no other brother and sister will hold.