Westerns audiobooks

Four by L'Amour - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
This set, newly released on compact disc, contains four thrilling dramatizations of Louis
L’Amour’s short stories, featuring all the excitement of the Wild West–the fierce passion and determination of the men and women who dared to tame the rugged terrain and call it their home, the... Read more

Telegraph Days

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Annie Potts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration—Female and Finalist for Fiction, Unabridged

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright.

When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage... Read more

Kiowa Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom... Read more

Big Country, Vol. 1

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour said the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a “big country needing big men and women to live in it.” The two stories in this collection provide a good sample of the kinds of people he had in mind.“Ride, You Tonto Raiders”Matt Sabre is a young and experienced gunfighter—but not a trouble seeker. However, when... Read more

The Black Rock Coffin Makers

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Two men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch—Jim Walker and the ruthless Wing Cary—and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for it. The Black Rock Coffin Makers is a tale of suspense and danger, with chases, shootouts, double-crosses and posses, all for possession of the XY ranch. Read more

Riders of the Dawn

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

InRiders of the Dawn,a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L'Amour's fiction is known. In the author's words, "It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple.... Read more

The Spirit of the Border

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The American frontier in the 1700s produced some men of utter ruthlessness, and Jim Girty was one of the worst. Living among the Delaware Indians in the Ohio Valley, Girty and his brothers incited acts of savagery and war against the white settlers.One of Jim Girty’s targets was the Village of Peace, a settlement of Christian Indians who had... Read more

The Last Trail

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

After the American Revolution, Jonathan Zane became a celebrated scout on the frontier. His adventurous spirit and love of the wild led him to Fort Henry, scene of countless Indian attacks. Farmers had been murdered, women abducted, cabins burned. Zane teamed with legendary scout Lewis Wetzel to mete out justice to Indians and outlaws, and... Read more

The Lone Star Ranger

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

After killing a man in self defense, Buck Duane becomes an outlaw, a companion of the gunfighters and rustlers who live along the Texas border.In a camp on the Mexican side of the river, he finds a young girl held prisoner and, in attempting to rescue her, brings down upon himself the wrath of her captors. Henceforth, he is forced to live a... Read more

The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned as a child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry, raised and trained to take over his empire of crime. Today, Mike is the quickest draw and the stealthiest tracker around, and Ben Curry is getting ready to retire. To test Mike’s wings, he has set him a task: the planning and execution of a gold-train robbery.Now,... Read more

The Last of the Plainsmen

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hezd rope the devil and tie him down...if the lasso didn’t burn,” it was said of “Buffalo Jones,” one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive to him and the passion of his life was to capture wild beasts alive. When he saw that the extinction of the buffalo was inevitable, he labored for... Read more

The Rustlers of Pecos County

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas. They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and somehow formed a state. They called it Texas, but for defenseless women and children, it was hell.Texas Rangers. Although they were outnumbered a thousand to one, the Texas... Read more

To the Last Man

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

To the Last Man is Zane Grey's archetypal tale of a bitter feud between two unforgiving factions: the ranchers led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of a relentless code of loyalty to their own people, they fight the war of the Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, to the last man, neither... Read more

The Call of the Canyon

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the master of the western novel comes a tale full of romance and adventure. Carley Burch, a young orphaned woman, is living a life of leisure in her family's New York City home. When her fianc├®, Glenn Kilbourne, returns from France ill and broken after fighting in World War I, he heads west, drawn to the mountains and canyons of Arizona.... Read more

The Rider of Lost Creek

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Lance Kilkenny’s gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don’t even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny’s life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny’s help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The... Read more

The Vanishing American

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of Zane Grey’s best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey’s empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture.It is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the... Read more

The Mysterious Rider

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

She was named Columbine, for she had been found as a child, lost in the woods, asleep among the columbine flowers. And now that she had turned nineteen and had finished school in Denver, she had returned to her beloved Colorado range land, where she would have to face the problems—and the people—in her life.There was old Bill Bellounds, the man... Read more

The The Sackett Brand: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.

Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to... Read more

To the Far Blue Mountains

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In To the Far Blue Mountains, Louis L’Amour weaves the unforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland, discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible.

Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to make his fortune in the New World. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a royal warrant had been sworn out... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories: Volume 3

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This third volume of Louis L'Amour's collected stories is a thrilling tribute to the unique spirit of our frontier heritage and proves again the enduring popularity of America's favorite storyteller.

The essence of Louis L'Amour's timeless appeal can be found in these unforgettable short stories. This third volume includes Shandy Takes the Hook,... Read more

The Collected Bowdrie Dramatizations: Volume 1

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow Chick Bowdrie's adventure in these classic westerns by America's favorite storyteller, Louis L'Amour.

Chick Bowdrie could have been an outlaw, but he rode a different trail. The Texas Rangers recruited Bowdrie to help pursue the most wanted men in the Southwest. And Bowdrie knew the terrain all too well: the dusty trails, bitter cattle... Read more

Hey, Cowgirl, Need a Ride? - Abridged

By: Baxter Black

Narrated by: Baxter Black

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A down-and-out rodeo champion follows a mysterious woman on the run with half a million dollars back to the bright lights of Las Vegas in the sequel to Hey, Cowboy, Wanna Get Lucky?
 
“Baxter Black is Mark Twain served up with a little Groucho Marx.”—The Weekly Standard

Two years after he won the average at the Las Vegas National Finals Rodeo by... Read more

Gunman's Rhapsody

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Robert B. Parker, creator of private detective Spenser, turns his eye to the Old West with his stirring novel. Rendered here are the legendary exploits of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, the Clanton Gang, and the fateful gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Read more

Jubal Sackett: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L’Amour’s great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land.

Jubal Sackett’s urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far... Read more