Westerns audiobooks

Incidents Among the Savages

By: David R. Lewis

Narrated by: David R. Lewis

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The year was 1803. It was a time when the West was not only frontier, it was the undiscovered country. It was the time of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, before the trains of Prairie Schooners and settlers, before cowboys or cattle drives, before Colonel Colt and the six-shooter, and nearly a three quarters of a century before George... Read more

Wildfire

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lin Sloan never wanted anything more than Wildfire, but the stallion almost killed him. Luckily, Lucy Bostil found the horse and the unconscious man who had roped him. But Sloan is not the only man interested in Wildfire, and he may resort to murder to get what he wants. Wildfire is another classic western by American author Zane Grey. The book... Read more

Ralph Compton Dead Man's Ranch

By: Ralph Compton & Matthew P. Mayo

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Brian Middleton left his father's ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he's returned to claim the land his late father left him -- and learns the hard way that if you want to keep something in the wild West, you have to fight for it. With local lowlifes and shady con-men after the Dancing M ranch, Middleton has no choice but to make a... Read more

These Is My Words

By: Nancy E. Turner

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to... Read more

Citizens Creek

By: Lalita Tademy

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Cane River brings us the evocative story of a once-enslaved man who buys his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian Wars, and his granddaughter, who sustains his legacy of courage.Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian... Read more

Classic Radio’s Greatest Western Shows, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: various performers

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection contains twelve of the greatest Western shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio, including many first episodes from their series. You'll hear William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, John Dehner as the man called Paladin on Have Gun—Will Travel, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on The Roy Rogers Show, Gene Autry on... Read more

Sleigh Bells in Valentine Valley

By: Emma Cane

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to Valentine Valley, where Christmas lights are twinkling and first love burns brighter the second time around . . .When Tony De Luca's ex, Kate Fenelli, waltzes through the door of his tavern and pulls up a bar stool, she turns his balanced world on end. Once they'd been each other's first love, first everything. But then life happened,... 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

Wait for Signs

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning "Old Indian Trick." This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson's bestselling, award-winning novels and the A&E hit series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans rejoiced when Johnson sent out a new... Read more

Bloody Sunday

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Johnstone Country. Everyday Is Gun Day.Luke Jensen gets caught in a black widow’s web in this blazing Western adventure from the authors of Dead Shot.In the bestselling novels of William W. Johnstone, mountain man Smoke Jensen is a legend. Now, Johnstone presents the adventures of Smoke’s long-lost brother Luke, who was reportedly killed during... Read more

The Ploughmen

By: Kim Zupan

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupan's The Ploughmen is a new classic in the literature of the American West.At the center of this searing fever-dream of a... Read more

Ralph Compton Slaughter Canyon

By: Joseph A. West & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Battles has to discover why Hatfield J. Warful is gathering every notorious gunslinger in the West at his home in Slaughter Canyon. And if his mission fails, it could result in a second Civil War. Read more

The High Divide

By: Lin Enger

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota's western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he's headed. It doesn't take long for Gretta's young sons, Eli and Danny, to set off after him, following... Read more

Riders of the Purple Sage

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Lackey

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1871 Utah, young Jane Withersteen is courted by Elder Tull, the leader of her polygamous Mormon church. When Jane refuses, the local Mormons persecute her. Meanwhile, Jane's friend, Bern Venters, is captured by Tull's posse and faces a harsh sentence. Jane defends him, causing even more friction with the Mormon populace. Enter Lassiter, a... Read more

The Rainbow Trail

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Lackey

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years after the events of Riders of the Purple Sage, John Shefford, a disillusioned preacher from Illinois travels to Arizona and takes refuge in a village controlled by polygamist Mormons hiding from the federal government. It's there Shefford learns the story of Fay Larkin: years ago, the infant Fay, along with Jane Withersteen and a... Read more

The Rider of the Ruby Hills

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Jim Gough

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened."The Rider... Read more

A Man Called Trent

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two exciting stories featuring Lance Kilkenny by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "A Man Called Trent," nester Dick Moffitt lies dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent"—an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to... Read more

Tucker

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“If a man won’t fight for what is rightly his, then he ain’t much account.” With this challenge from his dying father, young Shell Tucker rode out after three men who had stolen the twenty thousand dollars his father was carrying. Two of the men he hunted, Doc Sites and Kid Reese, were his friends. Dreaming of adventure, Tucker had wanted to... Read more

Utah Blaine

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Craig Klein

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble struggling at the end of a noose–and stepped in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners were the rancher’s own men, looking to... Read more

Trailing West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America’s favorite Western author.“Trap of Gold”Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling... Read more

Law of the Desert

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Collected here are seven stories penned by America's favorite Western author.The Black Rock Coffin MakersTwo men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch: Jim Walker and... Read more

The Sheep Queen

By: Thomas Savage

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic family saga set on the sprawling, beautiful ranches of the American West, from the author of The Power of the Dog, "a masterful novelist working at the peak of his form" (Washington Post).A Western family story at once intimate and epic, this rich, compelling, emotionally charged novel tells the story of the Sweringen family of Idaho:... Read more

West of the Tularosa

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that 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." This volume presents eight of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Mistakes Can Kill You"Johnny O'Day, once rescued by the Redlin family, may be the only one who can save Sam... Read more

Man Riding West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that 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." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Riding for the Brand"After a narrow escape, Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon, the people and... Read more