Westerns audiobooks

Showdown on the Hogback

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws who are occupying a sizable strip of land that the syndicate has filed, claiming it is unusable swamp. To Kedrick’s dismay, these “vagrants and outlaws” turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmers who have improved the lands they have claimed and are... Read more

Black Jack

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lithe as a panther, black hair flying, Black Jack Hollis rode with a gun in each hand.Recklessly, joyously, Black Jack had ridden into town to see his infant son. Then a shotgun fired from a window had blasted him from his horse and flung him to his death in the street.His young son was taken in by spinster Elizabeth Cornish, who reared him as... Read more

Beyond the Outposts

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From pre-Civil War Virginia to the prairies of the far west, this epic follows young Lew Dorset as he journeys in search of his father. Lew's skill with firearms gets him a job as a hunter with a trader heading onto the prairies to barter with the Indians. There he meets young Chuck Morris, and together they take on a Cheyenne attack party.... Read more

Crusader

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly, attracted by a girl being used as bait. Sparrow Roberts, a fight manager, used this young lady to lure Harry into his own sphere, for he knew that Camden had a truly devastating punch.But fighting wasn't what Harry really wanted. Unimpressed by the blandishments of civilization, he drifted... Read more

The Geraldi Trail

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

James Geraldi is one of the most legendary thieves in the West. But he is not a typical thief. Many an honest rancher or townsman has become a loyal friend when Geraldi rescues their savings, and many a bandit has been conned or bested by him. Having squared himself with the law, Geraldi is about to marry and settle down when his old friend... Read more

The Trail to Crazy Man

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes.Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings—but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.A word from... Read more

Open Range

By: Lauran Paine

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The “open range” men are free-grazing cattlemen—those who don’t own land but drive their stock through the country to graze. But Boss Spearman knows that times are changing for the open rangers. Local ranchers are staking claims to grazing areas and building up extensive cattle empires. Boss has no quarrel with the other ranchers, but he won’t... Read more

The Desert Crucible

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Zane Grey wrote this splendidly thrilling sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage in 1915, but for almost ninety years it existed in a profoundly censored version.Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah's isolated Surprise Valley, one of... Read more

The Desert of Wheat

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I.Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and to protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loyalties. He struggles... Read more

Appaloosa

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers.

It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast... Read more

High Lonesome

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon . . . and lead... Read more

Son of a Wanted Man - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AN AUDIO DRAMATIZATION

An outlaw's legacy...

In a remote corner of Utah lies the secret outlaw kingdom of Ben Curry. For fifteen years Curry has ruled supreme, as his men have pulled jobs from Canada to Mexico. But the king is getting old... he wants to turn his legacy over to someone younger, tougher. Mike Bastian is Ben's adopted son, a... Read more

Bad Dirt

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of stories. Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid characters for which Proulx has become known. In "The Contest," the male population of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vows to put aside their razors for two seasons, ante up ten dollars each, and wait to see who has the longest... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories: Volume 2

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer—who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with... Read more

Blood and Gold - Abridged

By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West

Narrated by: Terry Evans

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eighteen-year-old cowpuncher finds himself inheriting $30,000 in gold from his boss, an old Dodge City cattle rancher paralyzed from a drive, with the edict that he must return the money back home to the boy's mother, who lives just over the Red River in Texas. The problem is, word about such an obscene amount of money tends to draw hardcases... Read more

Valdez Is Coming - Abridged

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Keith Carradine

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Touching on the themes of the popular FX series Justified featuring U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, Valdez Is Coming is New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard's classic western tale of corruption, justice, and vengeance.Forced to gun down an innocent man, part-time sheriff Roberto Valdez is nearly killed and run out of town when he seeks... Read more

Bittersweet

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 16 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Nevada Barr delights contemporary mystery fans with novels like Deep South and Blood Lure. In Bittersweet, she departs the mystery genre for a touching story of hardship, perseverance, and love in the old West. When strong-willed schoolteacher Imogene Grelznik is forced from Philadelphia by scandal, the only position she can... Read more

Ride the Dark Trail: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Terrence Mann

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ride the Dark Trail, Louis L’Amour tells the story of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways to help a widow keep her land.

Logan Sackett is wild and rootless, riding west in search of easy living. Then he meets Emily Talon, a fiery old widow who is even wilder than he is. Tall and lean, Em is determined to defend herself... Read more

Vengeance Rider - Abridged

By: Joseph A. West & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Terry Evans

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Saddle up with Doc Holliday in this adventure from the USA Today bestselling Ralph Compton series.



Buck Fletcher plans to race his horse for a $10,000 prize—money he needs to send his sick daughter to a faraway clinic. Then some outlaws steal his steed, and his daughter's last hope with it. Though it's been ten years since Buck slapped leather... Read more

Folly and Glory

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait of the American West” (The New York Times Book Review).

As... Read more

Hondo

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer... Read more

Doomsday Rider - Abridged

By: Joseph A. West & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Terry Evans

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Buck Fletcher, framed for a murder he did not commit, is presented with an intriguing offer that may stave his sentence and give him another shot at the freedom he rightly deserves. With a hardened bounty hunter on his tracks, Fletcher must rescue a senator’s disgraced daughter and make it out of Arizona alive, before the senator's minions--or... Read more

Galloway: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate stand. . .

Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he had escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him.

But the brothers were about to find worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from The Frontier Stories: Volume 1

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour. Now, collected for the very first time, here are seven unabridged frontier tales from a legendary master of the genre. Volume One celebrates this remarkable voice in American fiction with a captivating blend of some of his ... Read more