Westerns audiobooks

Riders of the Purple Sage

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now, for the first time in a century, Zane Grey’s best-known novel is presented in its original form exactly as he wrote it.In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious... Read more

Slaughter

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The towering Last Gunfighter series continues with Slaughter. In the lawless West, Frank Morgan is the type of man you want on your side in a fight. But when he ventures into town-trouble always seems to find him. And now, treachery abounds as oil drillers encroach on local ranches, and violence erupts at every turn. Read more

The Lawman

By: Lyle Brandt

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyle Brandt's Lawman novels put listeners in the saddle with U.S. Marshal Jack Slade as he brings justice and order to the untamed American frontier. Residents of the Oklahoma Territory cower in fear as a band of homestead killers pillages the land. But retribution is coming to these ruthless outlaws in the form of Marshal Slade, who is planning... Read more

Betty Zane

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Robert Morris

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the dangerous West Virginia frontier, this is the story of the heroic Betty Zane, the beautiful young sister of old Colonel Isaac Zane, one of the most courageous of the pioneers.Balanced against the grim incidents of the Indian War is the love story of Betty and Alfred Clarke, a handsome young soldier. Their romance, however, is plagued... Read more

English Creek

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 14 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place—Montana in the 1930s—that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills.The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of... Read more

Ralph Compton Bullet For a Bad Man

By: David Robbins & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph Compton created a distinct brand of Western that lives on in the epic tales bearing his name. Bullet for a Bad Man features brothers Boone and Epp, who have little in common besides a God-given ability to draw steel with eye-searing speed. Happy raising cattle, Boone wonders at his brother's lawlessness. But he never thought Epp's... Read more

Many a River

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton comes a riveting tale befitting the Western Writers of America's Greatest Western Writer of all time. When Comanches slaughter his parents in 1855 West Texas, eight-year-old Jeff buries their scalped bodies-and the charred remains of his younger brother. Taken in by a homesteading family, Jeff ekes... Read more

Flint’s Truth

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Golden Spur Award–winning author Richard S. Wheeler continues his popular series featuring frontier journalist Sam Flint with Flint’s Truth, a tale of corruption and cover-up set against he vibrant backdrop of the American West.An editor is popular only if he can keep a secret, and Sam Flint’s new home of Oro Blanco has more than its share.... Read more

Guns of Wolf Valley

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author and Pulitzer nominee Ralph Cotton writes thundering westerns. In Guns of Wolf Valley, CC Ellis is a long rider-a cool-headed gunslinger with a reputation known far and wide. When he's ambushed by a group of four trappers, he manages to blast two before being severely wounded and left for dead. Still alive, he's... Read more

Flint’s Gift

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

“He thought that this was why he’d become a newsman. Yes. A paper’s principle purpose was to report the news and earn a profit, but once in a while, a paper could become a beacon, a lantern, a bonfire for the good.”—from the bookIt’s 1877, and all over the West, frontier towns have sprung up, drawing those in search of new beginnings after the... Read more

Dead Man's Canyon

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author and former Pulitzer Prize nominee Ralph Cotton ranks among the best Western writers of all time. With over 25 novels under his belt, Cotton writes tales that are popular for their brand of frontier justice. He spins a yarn of intrigue and suspense in Dead Man's Canyon. Ranger Sam Burrack is hot on the trail of... Read more

Wagons West Oregon!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Blue-Eyed Devil

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk.
 
The new chief is Amos Callico, a tall, fat man in a derby hat, wearing a star on his vest and a big pearl-handled Colt inside his coat. An ambitious man... Read more

Westward the Tide

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Bardoul was a good man to have as a friend and a bad one to make trouble with. He was also a single-minded drifter—until he met his match in an outspoken beauty named Jacquine Coyle. She was headed into the Bighorn Mountains with her father and an expedition in search of gold. After Matt signs on to join them, he discovers that there is... Read more

Guns of the Timberlands

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest... Read more

Killing Ground

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

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Killing Ground, legendary gunslinger Frank Morgan is content as marshal of his Nevada hometown. Trouble rides in, however, when Dex Brighton shows up with an authentic-looking claim to the local silver mine. Suspicious of this stranger, Frank sends for some legal eagles. But after they're gunned down, Frank realizes the looming standoff must... Read more

Ralph Compton Blood on the Gallows

By: Joseph A. West & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The proud tradition of Ralph Compton's epic Westerns carries on with the scintillating work of bestseller Joseph A. West. Blood on the Gallows features John McBride, a former New York City lawman who's moved west to pursue a more peaceful existence. But easy living just isn't in the cards. And when a town sheriff with a Texas-size chip on his... Read more

The Book of Murdock

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The winner of five Spurs, two Stirrups, and three Western Heritage Awards for his work, best-selling author Loren D. Estleman is among the greatest chroniclers of the American West. The eighth novel in Estleman's popular and acclaimed Page Murdock series, this action-packed tale finds Murdock and his trusted five-shot Deane Adams revolver... Read more

Fast Guns Out of Texas

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Western tradition of Ralph Cotton lives on in Fast Guns Out of Texas. After Cray Dawson sets out to stake his claim in Black's Cut, Montana, he learns his old friend Fast Larry Shaw faked his death to escape his notoriety as a gunfighter. But as Dawson soon discovers, his own prowess with a six-shooter could come back to haunt him as well.... Read more

Big Country, Vol. 3

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 31 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 five more of L’Amour’s fine short stories about the West, restored according to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines.“Riding for the Brand” Jed Asbury was... Read more

Wagons West Wyoming!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Roy & Lillie

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It has been said of five-time Spur Award winner Loren D. Estleman that even "Louis L'Amour looks down with envy" (Kirkus Reviews). Here Estleman applies his incomparable narrative panache to this novelization of a real-life romance that never was. Judge Roy Bean is an infamous arbiter of Old West justice. For years, he writes admiring letters to... Read more

Horseman, Pass By

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In addition to his 29 books, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry is credited on dozens of screenplays-including the Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain. Horseman, Pass By is a post-World War II classic first published in 1961 and later made into a feature film. Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional,... Read more

The Lone Star Ranger

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Zane Grey's books shoot fast and straight from the hip, hitting readers dead center with thrilling action. His name has become synonymous with western adventure. Because of his killing speed with a revolver, Buck Duane has lived the lone-wolf life of an outlaw. Every day is a struggle against desperate men anxious to prove themselves-and a... Read more