Westerns audiobooks

Death at Dark Water

By: John Nesbitt

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From his isolated homestead nestled deep in the plains country of Wyoming, author John D. Nesbitt writes taut Westerns that reveal his expertise in local history and his knowledge of the cowboy's trade. Devon Frost just wanted some time for himself, sketching the local architecture in a tiny town called Tinaja. But he's soon caught up in a... Read more

Hell Town

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

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A perennial fixture of the USA Today best-seller list, Western author William W. Johnstone takes listeners back to the days of cowboys, outlaws, and hot lead. Thanks to a lucrative vein of silver, Buckskin, Nevada, has become a boomtown. As greedy, scheming forces converge on Buckskin, lawman Frank Morgan stands strong as the town's lone defense. Read more

Blood on the Plains

By: Walter Lucas

Narrated by: Michael Arkin

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Lucas is a best-selling western author whose novels are acclaimed by fans who savor his skillful blend of frontier violence and American history. After the epic battle of Adobe Walls, Lt. Frank Baldwin and former buffalo hunter Billy Dixon lead a band of Indian and white scouts into Texas to assist the U.S. 5th Infantry combat unruly... Read more

Riding with John Wayne

By: Aaron Latham

Narrated by: Jeffrey Brick

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The widely acclaimed author of Code of the West and The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun, Aaron Latham pens some of today's most entertaining fiction. This rollicking novel follows aspiring screen writer and Hollywood newcomer Chick Goodnight- descendant of the legendary cowboy Jimmy Goodnight-as he strives to make his mark in an industry that seems... Read more

No Man's Man

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Passion drives Lou Morgan to the town of Battle Basin--passion and the promise of $5000. For in this dusty town lives the wildly irresistible Nana Maduro, the woman Morgan loved enough to kill for, the woman who walked away from him without a word. Now, butter but still caught in her spell, Morgan hires on with one of Nana's suitors to eliminate... Read more

The One for the Mojave Kid - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Few men were as deadly–or troublesome–with a gun as the Mohave Kid. Ab Kale, marshal of Hinkley, had warned the Kid to stay away from his town. Even as he trained his own adopted son, Riley, to handle a gun, he worried for both of them. He knew the Kid was the bloodthirsty sort who would one day force a showdown. But he couldn’t know when…or... Read more

More Brains Than Bullets - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Banker Tom Lindsay made a bad decision when he decided to do business with Ross Yerby. Yerby convinced Tom to print a few extra greenbacks to help him trade some cattle in exchange for half the profit. What Tom hadn't figured into the equation was Ross losing the money, and returning -- desperate -- for more. An argument between the two men goes... Read more

The Road to a Hanging

By: Mike Kearby

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This Old West adventure from genre stalwart Mike Kearby comes heartily recommended by Historical Novels Review. Free Anderson's days as a soldier may be over, but his war is just beginning. An enemy stalks him, waiting to exact vengeance. Now framed and set to hang in Texas, Free is aided by a friend from his army days. Together again on the... Read more

Captain's Rangers

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This entry in Elmer Kelton's Tales of Texas series whisks us away to witness a violent 1875 conflict. Thirty years after the Battle of San Jacinto, Texans and Mexicans are still spilling blood over control of the Nueces Strip. And Horse thieves and bushwhackers transform this hot, dry stretch between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers into a... Read more

Blood of Bass Tillman

By: Cotton Smith

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

President of the Western Writers of America, Cotton Smith is critically lauded for his resurrection of the classic Western. A bit long in the tooth, Bass Tillman has given up the guns and gone respectable. But then his son and daughter-in-law are murdered in cold blood, and he swears on their graves he will bring their killers to justice. "The... Read more

The Last Way Station

By: Kent Conwell

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Kent Conwell combines murder, mystery, and the lure of the West in The Last Way Station. Jake Slade and his partner, Three-Fingers Bent, arrive in a small Texas town with plans to start up a stagecoach way station. But when Bent is accused of murder, Slade's got to find the real culprit before his friend's day in the gallows arrives. Read more

Monument Rock - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This priceless collection of once lost stories brings to life a time of desperate violence and true courage in a wide-open country of fortune seekers and dreamers, lawbreakers and pioneers.

A newly sworn-in marshal must outwit a mysterious killer who’s fleecing his neighbors while secretly cutting their throats. . . .

A young drifter, wounded in... Read more

Merrano of the Dry Country - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Merrano of the Dry Country

When Miguel Merrano first came to Mirror Valley, the land was green and lush . . . and off limits to Mexicans. Ranchers such as Tom Drake and Joe Stangle tried to drive Merrano out, to fence him out; and whe he warned them that greed and overgrazing would ruin their land, they refused to listen.

Now Merrano's... Read more

Medicine Ground - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Cactus Kid is on his way to the spring dance to meet his best girl, Bess O’Neal. As the Kid ambles through the lonely mountain trail toward town, two men emerge from the darkness—Miguel and Lobo Fernandez, of the menacing Fernandez brothers. And what they want from the Cactus Kid is vengeance. Read more

Lassiter

By: Loren Zane Grey

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

This thrilling novel from the son of iconic Western author Zane Grey captures the spirit of the elder Grey's most popular and acclaimed book, Riders of the Purple Sage. That book's hero, Lassiter-a softspoken loner with a fierce sense of morality and unsurpassed skill with firearms-helped establish the Western gunman archetype in fiction.... Read more

Heyday

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 26 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

During one monumental month in 1848, gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe, and an eager English gentleman named Benjamin Knowles plunges into love with the strong-minded New York actress and part-time prostitute Polly Lucking. He also meets her brother Duff, a... Read more

McNelly Knows a Ranger - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a short story from Bowdrie's Law, Bowdrie is determined to avenge the death of a friend, even after he is shot and left for dead. Read more

McQueen of the Tumbling K - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

McQueen of the Tumbling K
Ranch foreman Ward McQueen recognizes trouble when he sees it-and trouble is what the Texan sees when he spies the tracks of a wounded man in the middle of the big Tumbling K spread. In town, he learns that a tinhorn gambler has just won the ranch next to the Tumbling K in a dirty card game--and is turning his oily gaze... Read more

The Marshal of Sentinel - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Tough and vicious, the Fred Henry Gang had been robbing banks all along the stage route from Santa Fe to Tularosa. Then they added murder to their list of misdeeds. It was only a matter of time before they hit the sleepy town of Sentinel, and when Marshal Fitz Moore saw the lone grey horse with the "Rocking R" brand tied up behind Earl... Read more

The Rail Kings

By: James Walker

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Zac Cobb isn't afraid of danger. Working for Wells Fargo, he doesn't back down from confrontations. When a rival railroad baron attempts to kidnap the eldest daughter of General Roberts, owner of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, Zac quickly steps in and rescues her. But as the gunsmoke clears, Zac and the woman must make a desperate run for... Read more

Ralph Compton Trail to Cottonwood Falls

By: Dusty Richards & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

With over four million Ralph Compton books in print, the grand Western tradition is not being put out to pasture any time soon. After years of driving cattle and wearing a ranger's badge, disaffected Texan Ed Wright retires-intent on drowning his sorrows with whiskey. But widowed rancher Unita Nance has one last job for him, and she won't take... Read more

Butcher’s Crossing

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of... Read more

The Treasure of Jericho Mountain

By: Cameron Judd

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

With more than two million copies of his books in print, Cameron Judd has delivered pulse-pounding tales of the Old West to countless fans. In The Treasure of Jericho Mountain, Jeremy Prine is reunited with old Civil War buddies to go after close to a million dollars in stolen loot. But despicable killers have also caught scent of the... Read more

Resolution

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times—bestselling author’s richly imagined work of historical fiction: a powerful tale of the Old West from the acknowledged master of crime fiction.

I had an eight-gauge shotgun that I’d taken with me when I left Wells Fargo. It didn’t take too long for things to develop. I sat in the tall lookout chair in the back of the saloon... Read more