Westerns audiobooks

Job for a Ranger

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Job for a Ranger
To clear the name of an innocent man, Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie pursues a murderous gang of bank robbers and cattle rustlers. Read more

Keep Travelin' Rider

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Keep Travelin’ Rider
After an absence of several years, Tack Gentry heads home to his Uncle John’s G-Bar Ranch. But when he arrives, the entire town has changed. What’s more, strangers have taken over the G-Bar. Strangers who claim that Tack’s uncle died in a gunfight. But Tack knows better. He knows his uncle was a strict Quaker–a man who never... Read more

Law of the Desert Born

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTION—FROM AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER
 
This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend... 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

Strawhouse Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

On a seldom-used smugglers’ trail between Mexico and Austin, a man lies dying. Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie takes the stranger’s body to Valverde, the nearest town. Upon arriving, a crowd gathers, watchful and silent as Bowdrie tells his story to the sheriff. In the crowd is the beautiful blonde Rose Murray, owner of the RM Ranch. Rose explains to... Read more

The Road to Casa Piedras

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the midst of a lively country dance, gunshots ring out at the stagecoach station and Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie finds the station's master sprawled in a pool of his own blood. Twelve thousand dollars are missing. And an innocent man has been murdered. And it's up to Chick to bring the killer to justice. With the unerring instincts that make... Read more

Unguarded Moment

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Fordyce is an ordinary man blessed with a budding career, a lovely fiancee, and a sunny future. He is hardly a criminal-until he finds a wallet stuffed with money at the racetrack. In one "unguarded moment," he removes the cash and throws the billfold away-unaware that he is being watched by a petty crook named Bill Chafey. Unscrupulous... Read more

Valley of the Sun

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common... Read more

West of Dodge

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINS

A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a... 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

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections from the Crime Stories: Volume 6

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Traversing a vivid landscape, from sunblasted hills and canyons to the nighttime streets of America’s greatest cities, some of Louis L’Amour’s most compelling fiction was set in his own time.  Here are tales of innocents caught in the schemes of criminals, detectives hunting down truths that hide more lies, gangsters and beauties, private... 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

The Man Called Noon

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead—and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions—or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill... Read more

The Ferguson Rifle (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Brian D'Arcy James, Jason Culp & Dan John Miller

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program--with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.

It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French... Read more

The Quick and the Dead

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even ... Read more

Robert B. Parker's Bull River

By: Robert Knott

Narrated by: Rex Linn

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are back in the saddle with guns blazing in this gritty, intense addition to the New York Times–bestselling series.


After hunting down murderer and bandito Captain Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to Citadel to stand trial. No sooner do they... Read more

Welcome to Hard Times

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics.

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and... Read more

A Ranger Rides to Town/Rain on the Mountain Fork/Down Sonora Way

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Rain on a Mountain Fork
Lawman, manhunter, peacemaker–it takes a hard breed of man to survive as a Texas Ranger, but Chick Bowdrie stands head and shoulders above the rest. The rough trails are his home. He's dried by the desert sun and wind, scarred and toughened by uncounted gun battles, and when you look into his black eyes it's like looking... Read more

A Trail to the West/Love and the Cactus Kid/Medicine Ground

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Trail to the West
Riding under an alias, Bowdrie joins up with Queen’s ruthless gang to rescue the pretty niece of a powerful Texas judge. But when Queen discovers the lawman’s true identity, Bowdrie must do some fast thinking and even faster shooting to beat the odds--five guns to one!

Love and the Cactus Kid
Folks far and wide know that the... Read more

Bill Carey Rides West/The Town No Guns Could Tame/Bowdrie Rides a Coyote Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This three-story collection includes:

Bill Carey Rides West
Life on an Ohio farm couldn’t hold young Bill Carey.  He wanted the adventure he knew waited in the territories to the west.  He’d drifted into the outlaw life, and now he found himself holed up on a small farm near the lair of Tabat Ryerson. Ryerson, the man who’d introduced him to... Read more

Bowdrie Passes Through / Where Buzzards Fly / No Man's Man

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Bowdrie Passes Through

Ride with the legendary Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie as he takes up the cause of Josh Pettibone, a stubborn loner who faces the hangman's noose. Bugs Tatum wants Pettibone's land--and he's willing to do anything to get it. But Bowdrie can not rest until justice is served!

Where Buzzards Fly

Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie tracks the... Read more

Four Card Draw/Get Out of Town/One for the Pot

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Four Card Draw
Allen Ring won the Red Rock Ranch in a poker game. But a man was shot in the back there a couple of years back. The murder is still unsolved, but someone seems convinced that Allen Ring has the missing answer. Ross Bilton was one of the men who found the body, and now he's the town marshall. Ring finds himself in the middle of... Read more

Law of the Desert Born/That Triggernometry Tenderfoot/Horse Heaven

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Law of the Desert Born
These stories represent Louis L'Amour at his best--stirring adventure tales of the ageless Old West, as tough and gritty as the men who tames it. Each story is personally selected, with an introduction and special historical notes, by the author.

Meet men like Shad Marone, the gunfighter who killed in self-defense, but who... Read more

Man Riding West/Grub Line Rider/Down the Pogonip Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Dramatization

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Man Riding West

Jim Gary had always tried to avoid trouble, but after he is forced to kill a Mexican gunman in a cantina showdown, trouble seems to seek him out. A shoot-out with the gunman’s vengeful outlaw buddies sends Jim on the run with an unwanted reputation as a dangerous gunslinger. And when he hires on as a cowhand, Jim risks being... Read more