Westerns audiobooks

The Lion Hunter and the Lady

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

No one describes the adventures of the lone cowboy better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of the Old West before the days of law and order. Here is one of Louis L’Amour’s short stories, with text restored according to the state of its initial publication.In “The Lion Hunter and the Lady,” the lion hunter is called Cat Morgan... Read more

That Printer of Udell’s

By: Harold Bell Wright

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy, Dick Falkner ran away from abject poverty and an abusive alcoholic father. Sixteen years later, he finds himself hungry of body and empty of spirit in a Midwestern town. Although he finds no help in this so-called Christian town, he is eventually taken in by George Udell, a local publisher and kindhearted man. Through hard work and... Read more

Black Horse Creek

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the American West, a hell-bent boy and his father come up against a former marshal who isn't above breaking the law.There's no taming Billy Blanchard. He's cut from the same rough cloth as his father, Jacob, the man who built the town of Black Horse Creek from nothing. Jacob takes pride in Billy's lawless, wild ways. But when the boy... Read more

Silver City Massacre

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A treacherous journey …Joel McAllister is a lieutenant in the Confederate Army—or at least he was, until Lee surrendered. Now he's determined to get as far away from war as possible, somewhere beyond North and South … and maybe somewhere with some gold: Idaho Territory.Accompanied by his steadfast sergeant, Riley, the two former soldiers travel... Read more

Long Road to Cheyenne

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Lured by the promise of the gold rush, Cam Sutton leaves his cow-herding job for the deposit-rich gulches of the Black Hills. But his carefree journey is interrupted when he rescues Mary Bishop and her daughters from a stagecoach holdup. Cam accompanies them on their search for Mr. Bishop, only to discover that he's been murdered in Custer City,... Read more

Mark of the Hunter

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Razed from childhood…No child should have to witness what twelve-year-old Cord Malone saw the day his parents were murdered and his home burned to the ground. Rescued from the blaze by his uncle Jesse, the terrible image still haunts him, as does the name of the man responsible: Levi Creed.Jesse tried to track the man down, only to lose Creed's... Read more

Way of the Gun

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Even at seventeen years old, Carson Ryan knows enough about cow herding to realize the crew he's with is about the worst ever. They're taking the long way around to the Montana prairies, and they're seriously undermanned.While rounding up strays, Ryan hears gunshots ring across the range. Suspecting an Indian attack, he gallops straight into a... Read more

The Water Hole

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It would seem that the end of every war has been followed in the United States by social and moral changes, mostly for the worse. Zane Grey certainly felt that way about the effects of the Great War, and to show these changes and how to cope with them became the impulse behind what he called The Water Hole. However, before magazine publication,... Read more

Out of the Wilderness

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger, to control more land. So when he buys Dr. Henry Morgan's ranchland that has been unsuccessfully converted to farming, it is his intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation the doctor makes is that Dunstan must retain Sandy Sweyn, who has more or less been Dr. Morgan's... Read more

The Wolf and the Man

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The attacks of the huge wolf Gray Cloud have caused the remarkable price of $2,500 to be put on his head. And it falls to big Dave Reagan, considered little better than a half-wit in that part of the rangeland, to discover the monster held fast in two of his traps.Something in the fearless animal's eyes keeps young Dave from killing the wolf.... Read more

Mountain Man

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, the first story in his most commercially successful seriesA comedic western, "Mountain Man" is about the tall tales and big adventures of Brekenridge Elkins, an exaggerated, cartoonish version of Howard himself. The story first appeared in the March–April 1934 issue of Action Stories and was so popular... Read more

The Revenant

By: Michael Punke

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier... Read more

The Tracker

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Fuller—a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength, and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame—is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a... Read more

Preacher's Bloody Rampage

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

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

When innocent people are threatened, Preacher punishes the guilty, dispensing his own brand of justice—one bullet at a time . . .



Johnstone Country. Where evil dwells . . . and justice awaits.



In a North American British province, a group of Norweigan settlers have carved a life for themselves in a lakeshore village called Skarkavik. Hunters and... Read more

Red Country

By: Joe Abercrombie

Narrated by: Steven Pacey

Length: 19 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!
They burned her home.
They stole her brother and sister.
But vengeance is following.

Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of... Read more

The Outcasts

By: Kathleen Kent

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west.

It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover,... Read more

Bitter Trail

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico.

Sounds like a peaceable enterprise?

The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold--gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.

And, added to... Read more

Hanging Judge

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Elmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is a legend in the field of Western literature. Famous for his realistic characters and accurate depictions of the history of his home state of Texas, Elmer Kelton continues to write exceptional novels of American history. In Hanging Judge, Justin... Read more

Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011

From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction.

Suffused with the history and landscapes of the American... Read more

This Heart of Mine

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series!Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a... Read more

Three-Ten to Yuma

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Henry Rollins, David Strathairn, Tom Wopat & Wi...

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Elmore Leonard, the author who has influenced more writers than any other, comes a thrilling story of law in the Old West, upheld by the barrel of a six-gun.Deputy Paul Scallen will earn his one hundred fifty dollars if he can get his prisoner Jim Kidd on the train to Yuma Prison. But the members of Kidd's gang have determined that Scallen... Read more

Glitter Baby

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to the world of the Glitter BabyFleur Savagar is the most beautiful woman in the world . . . to everyone but herself. With her oversized hands and paddle-boat feet, her streaky blond hair and funny green eyes, she lives a life filled with secrets that began before she was born. That was when her bewitching mother left home to find James... Read more

The Color of Lightning

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.... This is glorious work.” — Washington Post “A gripping, deeply relevant book.” — New York Times Book Review From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a stirring work of fiction set on the untamed Texas frontier in... Read more

The Bounty Hunters

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Josh Clark

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there's a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate... Read more