Westerns audiobooks

The Nester and the Piute

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bin Morley, the nester, tracks a dangerous man along a trail of crime to a violent confrontation for a surprising reason.Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific writer of novels and short stories, usually frontier stories of the American West. Book sale estimates of 230 million and 330 million rank L’Amour among the bestselling authors in world... Read more

Chick Bowdrie Passes Through

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Chick Bowdrie befriends the son and daughter of a man accused of poisoning a neighbor's horse and acts as the man's defense counsel.Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific writer of novels and short stories, usually frontier stories of the American West. Book sale estimates of 230 million and 330 million rank L’Amour among the bestselling... Read more

West Is Where the Heart Is

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

 Jim London, heading home to New Mexico after the Civil War, finds a girl, the lone survivor of a Comanche massacre.Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific writer of novels and short stories, usually frontier stories of the American West. Book sale estimates of 230 million and 330 million rank L’Amour among the bestselling authors in world... Read more

More Brains than Bullets

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Chick Bowdrie, Texas ranger, on the trail of a counterfeiter, investigates a case involving bank robbery and two murders.Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific writer of novels and short stories, usually frontier stories of the American West. Book sale estimates of 230 million and 330 million rank L’Amour among the bestselling authors in world... Read more

Mistakes Can Kill You

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Johnny O'Day shows up half dead at the Redlin's ranch, is nursed back to health, and given a job. The Redlin's son, Sam, falls in with bad company who plan to rob him.Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific writer of novels and short stories, usually frontier stories of the American West. Book sale estimates of 230 million and 330 million rank... Read more

His Brother's Debt

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A traumatic event has turned Rock Casady, a great ranch hand, into a miserable man, haunted with fear.Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) was a prolific writer of novels and short stories, usually frontier stories of the American West. Book sale estimates of 230 million and 330 million rank L’Amour among the bestselling authors in world history. L’Amour’s... Read more

Winter Kill

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

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author William W. Johnstone's tales straight out of the Old West consistently produce hit after hit. A dynamic entry in his Last Gunfighter series, Winter Kill follows Frank Morgan as he agrees to escort a group of ladies northwest into the wilds of Alaska. But the deadly winter and harsh, unfamiliar terrain plague their... Read more

Tombstone

By: Matt Braun

Narrated by: Peter Waldren

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Luke Starbuck knew Death's designs were as uncompromising as justice, and as cold and final as an unmarked grave. But when Wyatt Earp and his gang were ambushed one moonlit evening and Earp emerged from the barrage of shotgun fire very much alive, Starbuck began to wonder if there was more to the ambitious, flint-eyed desperado than met the eye. Read more

Texas Standoff

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In Elmer Kelton's Texas Standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts.The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of... Read more

Billy Gashade

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Loren D. Estleman, one of America's most critically acclaimed authors, is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee who has won three Shamuses, four Golden Spurs, and three Western Heritage Awards. One of Estleman's most unique works, Billy Gashade follows the adventures of a 16-year-old vagabond who wanders the Old West, crossing paths... Read more

That Old Ace in the Hole

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.

Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be... Read more

Hell's Riders

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The tough-skinned novels of famed Western writer Ralph Cotton regularly appear on the USA Today best-seller list. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack thought he'd seen every despicable act of cruelty and murder any man could exact on another. He thought wrong. When he stumbles upon the butchered remains of a scalptaking massacre, he's choked with... Read more

Journey of the Dead

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An authority on the American West, award winner Loren D. Estleman has been called the most critically acclaimed author of his generation. In Journey of the Dead, Spanish alchemist Franciso de la Zaragoza-more than a hundred years old and known as a wise man and healer-and Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who killed Billy the Kid, meet. The men share... Read more

Wagons West Colorado!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Colorado! Some came for freedom; others, to build a new life. But in 1858, when gold is discovered in the Colorado region, thousands of desperate men and women descend on Denver like a hungry swarm. Homesteaders struggle to hold onto their claims, but none are immune to the effects of gold fever. Wagon train veteran Chet Harris risks his life... Read more

Wagons West Colorado! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Colorado!Some came for freedom; others, to build a new life. But in 1858, when gold is discovered in the Colorado region, thousands of desperate men and women descend on Denver like a hungry swarm. Homesteaders struggle to hold onto their claims, but none are immune to the effects of gold fever. Wagon train veteran Chet Harris risks his life to... Read more

Shavetail

By: Thomas Cobb

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Cobb's second novel is a "thoughtful Western" (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and... Read more

Cities of the Plain

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In his novels, best-selling author Cormac McCarthy creates a western landscape filled with characters that are both myhic and authentic. Cities of the Plain, the stunning conclusion of his award-winning Border trilogy, brings together John Grady Cole and Billy Parham-the two lifelong friends who began their adventures in All the Pretty Horses.... Read more

Savagery of the Mountain Man

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author William W. Johnstone has penned more than 200 novels, and is especially loved for his Westerns. Smoke Jensen travels from his peaceful Sugarloaf Ranch to Santa Clara, Colorado, where he wins an auction for a pureblood Hereford bull. But this makes Pogue Quentin, the town's leading citizen and a man accustomed to bloodshed,... Read more

Other Men's Horses

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what appears to be a routine duty. Donley Bannister, a West Texas horse trader, has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum, who stole one of Bannister's horses. Ranger Pickard is ordered to find and arrest Bannister and bring him to trial.The Bannister case turns out to be anything but routine. Pickard picks up... Read more

The Broken Gun

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers’ ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery—but it... Read more

The Lonesome Gods (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn, Jason Culp, Dan John Miller &...

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program—with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.

"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid."

This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to... Read more

Ralph Compton Ride the Hard Trail

By: David Robbins & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The literary legacy of USA Today best-selling author and Medicine Pipe Bearer Award nominee Ralph Compton lives on in Ride the Hard Trail. Hiding from the law, brothers Lin and Chancy Bryce hire on as cowpunchers at a widow's ranch. But soon they're embroiled in a range war with a nefarious cattle baron who has a small army of hired guns... Read more

Sudden Fury

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

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Entries in the Last Gunfighter series blast their way up best-seller lists and win new fans with each riveting adventure. In Sudden Fury, something monstrous is terrorizing loggers in the Redwoods. So when a timber baron puts a bounty on its head, all manner of miscreants come out of the woodwork, guns blazing, to score a quick buck. But Frank... Read more

The Lawman

By: Lyle Brandt

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

High Plains action and quick-witted gunmen are staples of Lyle Brandt's popular Lawman Western series. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade has his work cut out for him while hunting down a sharpshooter who murdered a hanging judge during an execution. Amidst the chaos of the melee, little evidence was left behind, which puts Slade's expert tracking... Read more