Westerns audiobooks

Journal of the Gun Years

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Richard Matheson, best known for his horror and fantasy writing, comes a highly praised Western that shows the master's hand in this genre as well. Back East, they told tall tales about Marshal Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits... Read more

The Walking Drum

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century.
 
Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge,... Read more

Wagons West California!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

CALIFORNIA! Gold fever. It swept the country from coast to coast, luring more than a hundred thousand seekers to the untamed territory of California. For them, the Gold Rush of 1848 represented the American Dream come true. But for the settlers who lived there, it was an all-out assault on the homes they’d struggled so hard to build. Now... Read more

Wagons West California! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CALIFORNIA!Gold fever. It swept the country from coast to coast, luring more than a hundred thousand seekers to the untamed territory of California. For them, the Gold Rush of 1848 represented the American Dream come true. But for the settlers who lived there, it was an all-out assault on the homes they’d struggled so hard to build. Now... Read more

Canyon Diablo

By: Max McCoy

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Canyon Diablo by Spur Award winner Max McCoy, two brothers agree to settle their simmering feud at an old desert mission. But then they find a pile of dead bodies there-and one mortally wounded survivor who promises them riches beyond their dreams if they return his prized possessions to Canyon Diablo. "Max McCoy is a masterful storyteller... 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

The Moonshine War

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Leonard is tops in his field.”
—New Orleans Times-PicayuneThe great Elmore Leonard, “America’s pre-eminent crime fiction writer” (Chicago Tribune), takes readers back to Prohibition days in the back hills of Kentucky in a rollicking story of guns, greed, and illegally brewed corn liquor. The Moonshine War is a tale of the chaos that ensues when... Read more

Last of the Breed

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must... Read more

Gunsights

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Josh Clark

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Brendan Early and Dana Moon have tracked renegade Apaches together and gunned down scalp hunters to become Arizona legends. But now they face each other from opposite sides of what newspapers are calling The Rincon Mountain War. Brendan and a gang of mining company gun thugs are dead set on running Dana and "the People of the Mountain" from... Read more

Forty Lashes Less One

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Josh Clark

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The hell called Yuma Prison can destroy the soul of any man. And it's worse for those whose damning crime is the color of their skin. The law says Chiricahua Apache Raymond San Carlos and black-as-night former soldier Harold Jackson are murderers, and they'll stay behind bars until they're dead and rotting. But even in the worst place on Earth,... Read more

Wagons West Independence! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The year is 1837. The American West is untamed, uncivilized, and largely unclaimed. U.S. President Andrew Jackson, in a race with the British and Russians, sends a wagon train of would-be settlers into the uncharted Oregon territory, led by his close friend, mountain man and veteran Sam Brentwood. Teaming up with trail hand Whip Holt, widow... Read more

Wagons West Nebraska! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Autumn, 1837. Blazing onward from the eastern shores, to Missouri, the legendary wagon train sent by U.S. President Andrew Jackson has reached the last outpost of civilization. Now five hundred strong, these brave pioneers set a course across the great rolling plains toward the treacherous Rockies, hoping to stake a claim in the American West.... Read more

Wagons West Texas! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

TEXAS! 1844. The bold new Republic of Texas is fighting for its life. Rallying to the cause of liberty, the brave pioneers who forged the Oregon Trail are called upon to lead a new wagon train into the fray. Leaving their homes in the thriving Oregon Territory, they face impossible odds on the wild Texas frontier, overrun with dangerous outlaws,... Read more

Wagons West Wyoming! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WYOMING!1838. The first wagon train to Oregon country moves slowly across the Great Plains, reaching the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in early autumn. Led by wagon scout “Whip” Holt, the five-hundred-strong community of courageous men, women, and children prepare for the bitter winter ahead. Among them are dreamers and drifters, foreigners... Read more

Undaunted Spirit

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Free-spirited journalist Independence McClaren follows her heart to a Colorado silver-town -- and a test of her fierce commitment to the truth. Mindy's birth name is Independence McClaren -- a fitting match for her tenacity and determination. Leaving behind a secure but colorless future in the east, the fiery young woman heads west to Coarse... Read more

Where Tomorrow Waits

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Penny Sayres' red hair, freckle-splashed skin, and fierce independence drew the attention of some of the region's most eligible bachelors. One by one, they've been disappointed -- because romance and marriage are the last things on Penny's mind! Since her childhood, she has sensed an unknown destiny beckoning from the horizon. When Penny's... Read more

The Brave

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Michael Emerson

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

There's little love in eight-year-old Tom Bedford's life. His parents are old and remote and the boarding school they've sent him to bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. The only comfort he gets is from his fantasy world of Cowboys and Indians. But when his sister Diane, a rising star of stage and screen, falls in love with one of his... Read more

A Distant Dawn

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the death of their parents, twenty-four-year-old Sunniva Lyndall and her younger brother, Tracy, leave the comforts and safety of their Ohio Valley home to travel west to California, With excitement, determination, and the money they received from the sale of the family farm, they head for Missouri and the wagon train that will take... Read more

Surf's Up, Geronimo! / The Wild, Wild West (Geronimo Stilton #2 & #21)

By: Geronimo Stilton

Narrated by: Bill Lobley

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Ah, there's nothing like a relaxing vacation on the beach! I would spread out by the crystal-clear water with a good book. What more could a mouse want? At least, that was the plan. But somehow, my vacations never seem to go according to plan. Instead of a beautiful seaside resort, I found myself in a fleabag hotel that was falling down... Read more

Wagons West Texas!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

TEXAS! 1844. The bold new Republic of Texas is fighting for its life. Rallying to the cause of liberty, the brave pioneers who forged the Oregon Trail are called upon to lead a new wagon train into the fray. Leaving their homes in the thriving Oregon Territory, they face impossible odds on the wild Texas frontier, overrun with dangerous... Read more

Wagons West Oregon! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They are the first wagon train to cross the American continent — and forge the Oregon Trail. Five-hundred courageous men, women and children, led by mountain man Whip Holt, they have survived the Rocky Mountain winter, fierce native attacks, and countless other hardships. Now, on the last leg of their journey, they face their greatest challenge... Read more

The Switch

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“My favorite Leonard book….He writes the way Hammett and Chandler might write today, if they sharpened their senses of ironic humor and grew better ears for dialogue.”
—Dallas Morning News“The best writer of crime fiction alive.”
—NewsweekDangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into... Read more

The Hunted

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wonderful…razor-sharp.”
—Los Angeles Times Book Review“Excellent….A plot and a chase as good as anything he has ever written.”
—Bergan RecordIn Elmore Leonard’s The Hunted, “crime fiction’s greatest living practitioner” (Washington Post) carries the action far from his usual Detroit, Miami, and Los Angeles milieus, all the way to the Middle... Read more

Gold Coast

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Lean, mean, darkly funny.”
—Boston Globe “A zingy thriller by the master of hard-boiled suspense.”
—Dallas Morning News“Elmore Leonard may be the greatest crime novelist in the world,” declares the Seattle Times, and truer words have never been written. Just follow the Grand Master of mystery and suspense to Florida’s Gold Coast and you’ll... Read more