Westerns audiobooks

Chili Queen

By: Sandra Dallas

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This Literary Guild and Doubleday Book club alternate by best-selling author Sandra Dallas features a bank robber, a mail-order bride, and a cathouse madam joining forces on a quest for happiness in 1880s New Mexico. "Dallas weaves a beguiling plot and creates engaging characters and dialogue . The zesty, offbeat charm of life among these... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Volume 7

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In Louis L'Amour's frontier stories, the American West is the crucible in which character is tested, reputations are won or lost, and life always hangs in the balance. Struggling to survive against the elements, hostile Indians, or outlaws who prey upon the honest and hardworking, the men and women in these tales each come face-to-face with what... Read more

Fit to Be Tied

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Kathy Garver

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1916, and Idaho rancher Cleo Arlington knows everything about horses but nothing about men. So when charged with transforming English aristocrat Sherwood Statham from playboy into cowboy, she’s totally disconcerted. So is Statham, who’s never encountered a woman succeeding in a “man’s world.” Their bumpy trot into romance is frustrating,... Read more

Aurora Crossing

By: Karl Schlesier

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Aurora Crossing by best-selling author Karl H. Schlesier, a young man-an outsider by upbringing and ancestry-becomes embroiled in the Nez Perces War of 1877. His quest to find identity and belonging in the clash of cultures takes him on the historic 1,200-mile Nez Perces trek from Idaho toward refuge in Canada. "A satisfying, ethnographically... Read more

The Seventh Man

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Ian Esmo

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

His name is Dan Barry, and they call him "the Manslayer." His best friend is a savage wolf-dog no other man can touch. They say his gun is faster than summer lightning and has never missed its mark. They say no bullet yet cast can kill him. His lifeblood is danger, and it flows with the cool recklessness of a surging mountain stream.Some say he... Read more

Jargan

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Now you can enjoy one of Max Brand’s classic short novels, a form that flourished during the heyday of American fiction magazines. Too short to stand alone and too long for most anthologies, such stories as these have been largely lost to Western fiction fans until now.Jargan is a summer gambler wintering in the western town of Big Horn when he... Read more

Wagered Heart

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Kathy Garver

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bethany Silverton left the genteel life of Miss Henderson’s School for Young Ladies back in Philadelphia for the raw frontier town of Sweetwater, Montana, she had no idea how much she would enjoy the freedom and danger of this wild country.A conservative preacher’s daughter, Bethany can’t resist the challenge of charming the most attractive... Read more

The Trespassers

By: Andrew J. Fenady

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrew J. Fenady has been justly rewarded for his exceptional fiction with the Owen Wister Award, the Western Writers of America's most prestigious honor. The author's immense talent is on full display in The Trespassers, the tale of four soldiers of fortune who slip into Mexico to nab five million dollars in buried gold. Before they can get... Read more

Ralph Compton Shadow of the Gun

By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The USA Today best-selling Ralph Compton series drives forward with this tale of a man looking to abandon his past and carve himself an honest future. John McBride purchases a restaurant in the eerily named town of Suicide. But marauding Apaches, rampaging outlaws, and even the townsfolk are driving tensions sky high-and McBride isn't exactly a... Read more

Wagons West Independence!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Hard Trail to Follow

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Hard Trail to Follow is the seventh novel in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed Texas Ranger series from Elmer KeltonFormer Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped... Read more

Rampage of the Mountain Man

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Authors of over 200 books combined, William W. and J.A. Johnstone write action-packed tales of Western life. In Rampage of the Mountain Man, a job offer to deliver 3,000 head of cattle sounds like just the payday Smoke Jensen needs. But when an angry Cheyenne warrior attacks him and his comrades, Smoke discovers that he's not the only one... Read more

High Country

By: Willard Wyman

Narrated by: Ken Marks

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A wrangler for some 40 years, Willard Wyman landed two Spur Awards for High Country as Best Novel of the West and Best First Novel. Little more than a boy, Ty Hardin is apprenticed to a legendary packer even as the Great Depression takes its toll on American families. "The characters are so well drawn, and the authenticity of detail so finely... Read more

Ride the Desperate Trail

By: Mike Kearby

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Spur Award finalist and acclaimed Texas historian, Mike Kearby packs his Westerns with vivid details and characters straight off the plains. After outlaw Tig Hardy kidnaps his wife Clara, ex-soldier Free Anderson feels his blood boiling. Teaming with Parks Scott, Free embarks on a stirring quest for vengeance, with plenty of iron on his hip... Read more

Over the Northern Border

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a fool thing to do, but Jack Trainor did it. In order to help keep his sister’s husband from going to jail for robbery, Jack agrees to ride out on the getaway horse, drawing suspicions away from his brother-in-law and onto himself. But eluding the posse that follows him in hot pursuit turns out to be much harder than Jack had thought. And... Read more

Trail of the Red Butterfly

By: Karl Schlesier

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Employing an authentic map from 1805 and decades of research into Cheyenne culture, Karl H. Schlesier pens a tale as remarkable for its historical detail as for the intensity of its storytelling.Whirlwind, the twin brother of Stone, disappears during a raid into northeastern New Spain. So Stone brings together Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Gataka... Read more

The Branch and the Scaffold

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary author Loren D. Estleman has built a distinguished career in both the Western and mystery genres. His historicalWesterns are instant classics, and The Branch and the Scaffold is another triumph. Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals. But his quest for... Read more

Ralph Compton West of the Law

By: Joseph A. West & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A towering legend among chroniclers of the OldWest, Ralph Compton penned searing tales of the highest entertainment. In this fast-paced actioner, Detective Sergeant JohnMcBride gets while the gettin's good when a New York gangster puts a price on his head. But after landing in High Hopes, Colorado, McBride quickly finds that his troubles with... Read more

Ride to Hell's Gate

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence Shaw still has the reputation as the fastest gun alive. But since the death of his beloved Rosa, his shots have come out of a bottle. Then a friend gets Shaw a job helping a widow with her ranch, and Fast Larry sees the glimmer of a second chance.Unfortunately the Barrows Brothers Gang has other plans - and they involve stolen horses... Read more

Hellfire Canyon

By: Max McCoy

Narrated by: Carol Monda, Scott Sowers & Henry Strozier

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

MaxMcCoy has made a name for himself among fans of Old West tales by penning novels that sizzle with the heat of flying lead and lightning-fast gunslingers. Hellfire Canyon features Alf Brolin, a tall drink of water who guns down innocent victims with the same carelessness with which he quotes classic literature. Federal trooper Zach Thomas,... Read more

The Sundown Chaser

By: Dusty Richards

Narrated by: Ken Marks

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this third novel in Dusty Richards' Spur Award-winning Herschel Baker series, a rawhide-tough horse thief rides up from Mexico with a lightning-quick draw that leaves a trail of dead criminals in his wake. His son Herschel now wears a badge, but many years have passed since he left his boy to chase down sunsets. "[Richards] has a definite... Read more

Massacre at Goliad

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Elmer Kelton, beloved chronicler of the OldWest and recipient of an unprecedented seven Spur Awards, recounts the story of Santa Anna's lesser known massacre through the eyes of a lone survivor. Even in his old age, Josh Buckalew sometimes awakens in a cold sweat as he relives those horrifying moments at Goliad so long ago. And yet every time he... Read more

Brimstone

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When we last saw Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole, they had just restored peace to the rough-and-tumble town of Resolution. Virgil, however, has only one thing on his mind these days: Allie French, the woman who stole his heart in Appaloosa. Even though Allie ran off with another man, Virgil is determined to find her--with Everett's help.

Moving... Read more

Morgette and the Shadow Bomber

By: Glenn G. Boyer

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolf Morgette, legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West, is in Alaska when he first hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho. At first, it sounds like the bombings are being directed at mine owners, probably by disgruntled miners who are unhappy about recent cuts in wages. But when the danger threatens his family,... Read more