Westerns audiobooks

Ranger's Trail

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 1874 the Ranger companies that protect settlers against Indian raids and outlaw bands are being reorganized and David "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran for reenlistment.But Shannon has new goals for his life: He is in love with Josie Monahan, daughter of the family that adopted him, and he intends to marry Josie... Read more

Mr. Littlejohn

By: Cameron Judd

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Two-time Spur Award nominee Cameron Judd spins Westerns that lasso listeners' attention. In this inspiring story of self-sacrifice, menacing dangers spur 17-year-old Pennington Malone to grow up quickly. With his father in Leavenworth Prison, Penn travels to Dodge City packing his dad's loaded sixgun. He soon meets Jonah Littlejohn, a lanky man... Read more

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: Victor Raider-Wexler

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 100 years after his first short stories began to appear in the late 1850s, Western writer Bret Harte remains thoroughly embedded in the American literary tradition-the creator of some of our most venerable literary traditions. Since Harte, Western gamblers must have some of the self-contained poise, readiness, and chivalry of Jack... Read more

The Law in Somos Santos

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize nominee Ralph Cotton pits a gang of grizzled bank robbers against a straight-shooting sheriff in this fast-paced Western. Sheriff Cray Dawson's quick-draw reputation keeps most criminals away from his Texas town of Somos Santos. But it doesn't keep the motley Walker Gang away for long. Although they temporarily divert their... Read more

Home in the Valley

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Home in the Valley

Steve Mehan had done the impossible: driven a herd of cattle from the Nevada range to California in the dead of winter! To the north the passes were blocked with snow, to the south lay miles of trackless and nearly waterless desert. But now the cattle the five ranchers had entrusted to him were sage. And he was back in time... Read more

Killing Plain

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize nominee Ralph Cotton is one of the most popular chroniclers of the Old West. In Killing Plain he displays the striking combination of gritty authenticity and lyrical beauty that has earned widespread critical acclaim. Lonzo Greer and his Black Moon gang are leaving a blood-soaked trail on the... Read more

Grub Line Rider

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Grub Line Rider

Most folks would call Kim Sartain an easygoing, peace-loving man. But the few who crossed the young drifter knew there was nothing he liked better than a good fight. When cattleman Jim Targ challenges Sartain's right to ride across an unclaimed stretch of meadow, Sartain decides he'll do better than ride through: He'll put down... Read more

His Brother's Debt - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

His Brother's Debt

Cattle rancher Ben Kerr wants Jim and Jack Casady's prime farmland real bad. He's offered them good money, but they won't sell. When the Casady brothers find Kerr's cattle grazing on their land, surrounded by broken fences, anger rises up like bile in Jack Casady's gut and tempers flare.

As Jack rushes up from behind to warn Jim... Read more

The Deserter

By: Paul Bagdon

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Popular author of over 30 novels, Paul Bagdon is acclaimed for his crisply written, action-packed Westerns. In this Spur Award finalist, the senseless brutality of the Battle of Gettysburg convinces Confederate sharpshooter Jake Sinclair to flee the carnage of war and return home. Buried in the gore of Pickett's charge, he outshoots a murderous... Read more

Keep Travelin’, Rider

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle John Gentry’s G Bar. To his amazement, the ranch has a new owner, who is unimpressed when Tack explains that his uncle was a Quaker, didn’t believe in violence, and never carried a gun. His advice to Tack is to make tracks. But Tack has other plans. Read more

Lonesome Range

By: John Nesbitt

Narrated by: Ken Marks

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

John D. Nesbitt has written more than a dozen traditional Westerns, including Rancho Alegre. In Lonesome Range he carves out new territory. When Lane, an office clerk, falls in love with the wife of a powerful land developer, their affair is soon discovered. But instead of facing her husband in a showdown, Lane moves to a remote ranch, where he... Read more

Jericho's Road

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the TexasMexico border country he rides directly into a deadly feud. At odds are two land and cattle barons—Jericho Jackson, whose great spread lies just north of the Rio Grande, and Guadalupe Chavez, whose domain lies south of the river.The men are alike in only one respect:... Read more

Turpentine

By: Spring Warren

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Spring Warren breaks onto the literary scene with a remarkable debut novel. This often comic picaresque follows Edward Turrentine Bayard III, who deserts his upper-class family and moves to Nebraska. Soon he finds trouble-and a Pinkerton agent following his every move. "... a pitch-perfect narrator and a smorgasboard of sensory detail."-Jodi... Read more

Blood Brothers

By: Cotton Smith

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Spur Award-winning author Cotton Smith pens authentic tales of the Old West. In Blood Brothers, former Texas Ranger John Checker and a rag-tag group of travelers are are returning home to Dodge City, Kansas, after rescuing Checker's niece and nephew from his ruthless stepbrother Star McCallister and his gang. But their escape is fraught with... Read more

The Good Old Boys

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Honored by seven Spur Awards and peer-selected as history's best Western writer, Elmer Kelton is the beloved author of a bevy of Texas tales, including his own revealing memoir Sandhills Boy. Set in 1906, The Good Old Boys is hailed as one of Kelton's finest works. Cowboy Hewey Calloway loves to ride the open range like a solitary sailor on an... Read more

Guns on the Border

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton exhibits the same dead-eye aim for storytelling that his fictional gunfighters show for slingin' lead. In Guns on the Border, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack heads out into the Mexican badlands to track down the dirtiest scoundrels to ever strap on a six-gun and laugh in the face of the law. But Burrack is... Read more

The Horse Creek Incident

By: Dusty Richards

Narrated by: Ken Marks

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Dusty Richards' Westerns are visceral portraits of America's past-a time when ruthless land-grabbing reddened the plains with blood. In this 2007 Spur Award winner, cattle baron Rupart MacDavis wants to bury the ranchers of Horse Creek, Montana. With the local law in his pocket, MacDavis brutalizes the town until Herschel Baker begins showing... Read more

Matt Jensen, The Last Mountain Man

By: William W. Johnstone & J.A. Johnstone

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone is one of the most prolific writers of the past 50 years, with nearly 200 thrilling books to his credit. Matt Jensen, reared by legendary mountain hero Smoke, is the last of a proud breed. He will soon learn that dispensing justice with a gun is the only true way to execute righteous revenge in... Read more

Gunfight at Cold Devil

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton thrills millions with "solidly crafted" Westerns that bristle with "disarming realism" (Publishers Weekly). Ranger Burrack and Federal Marshal Summers must battle Arizona regulator Morgan Waite and his band of vigilantes. When Burrack and Summers apprehend Cold Devil's saloon owner Jack Spain, Spain... Read more

Ralph Compton Guns of the Canyonlands

By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph Compton's USA Today best-selling Westerns draw praise for their hard-hitting plots and rough-hewn characters. His legacy carries on through the talented pen of Joseph A. West. Passing through Crooked Creek, Utah, Chance Tyree runs afoul of the law, and soon finds himself on the wrong end of a hanging rope. Only Owen Fowler can help him.... Read more

Apache Storm

By: Jason Manning

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Jason Manning, a popular Western author, sets this tale at the beginning of the Civil War. Lt. Joshua Barlow, just out of West Point, is sent into the West by his influential father, who hopes he will be safer there. However, a different conflict is being waged on the plains. Kiannatah and his band of Apache warriors are determined to fight... Read more

Deadwood Gulch

By: John Edward Ames

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

John Edward Ames takes the reins from the late Ralph Compton to ink a tale of Old West justice in the tradition of the great master. Deadwood Gulch stars bounty hunter Cas Everett, lightning fast on the draw and deadly as a nest of rattlers. When Cas returns home and finds his ma, pa, and siblings planted in fresh graves, he vows to call down... Read more

A Distant Land

By: Matt Braun

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Spur Award and the Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement in Western Literature Matt Braun delivers a stirring depiction of the struggles of the Anglos, Indians, and Mexicanos in the New Mexico Territory of the late 19th century. Clint Brannock has been commissioned to track down the infamous vigilante Miguel Ortega and put an end... Read more

Dakota

By: Matt Braun

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Braun's Spur Award-winning Dakota tells the compelling story of Teddy Roosevelt's foray into rugged Dakota Territory. Stunned by a Valentine's Day telegram, Teddy Roosevelt reaches his Manhattan home just in time to watch death first claim his mother and then his wife on that dark day in 1884. Abandoning a promising political career,... Read more