Westerns audiobooks

Trail Mix Volume One

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson

Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

More than any writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life. His action-packed stories dealt with eternal themes: honor, deceit, passion, betrayal, loyalty, courage, love. His settings were historically accurate, his prose riveting, and his characters colorful: good guys, bad guys, tough, roughs, sidekicks, and saints.... Read more

Trail Mix Volume Two

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Willie Nelson

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

More than any writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life. His action-packed stories dealt with eternal themes: honor, deceit, passion, betrayal, loyalty, courage, love. His settings were historically accurate, his prose riveting, and his characters colorful: good guys, bad guys, tough, roughs, sidekicks, and saints.... Read more

The High Divide

By: Lin Enger

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota's western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he's headed. It doesn't take long for Gretta's young sons, Eli and Danny, to set off after him, following... Read more

Deadwood Gulch

By: John Edward Ames

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

John Edward Ames takes the reins from the late Ralph Compton to ink a tale of Old West justice in the tradition of the great master. Deadwood Gulch stars bounty hunter Cas Everett, lightning fast on the draw and deadly as a nest of rattlers. When Cas returns home and finds his ma, pa, and siblings planted in fresh graves, he vows to call down... 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

Little Big Man

By: Larry McMurtry & Thomas Berger

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker, Scott Sowers & Henry Strozier

Length: 20 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp. From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more

Doubtful Canon

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Three twelve-year-olds, two notorious gunfighters, a half-crazed albino, and a grieving woman vie for $30,000 in gold coin, buried twenty years ago in treacherous Doubtful CaNon. Read more

The Killing Shot

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West" (Shootist), Johnny D. Boggs mixes adventure and realism with a torrid storytelling style all his own. In The Killing Shot, Deputy U.S. Marshal Reilly McGilvern is hauling criminals to Yuma when his prison wagon is attacked, and McGilvern is left locked inside to die. When another... Read more

Legacy of a Lawman

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

***2012 Spur Award Finalist, Best Western Short Novel Bass Reeves was a man of color and a deputy United States marshal. For thirteen years he was sided by Dave Adams, also a deputy marshal, and a white man. Bennie Reeves was Bass Reeves' son and a barber, a good one, before he shot down his unarmed wife who had been cheating on him and then... Read more

The Lawman

By: Lyle Brandt

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

High Plains action and quick-witted gunmen are staples of Lyle Brandt's popular Lawman Western series. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Slade has his work cut out for him while hunting down a sharpshooter who murdered a hanging judge during an execution. Amidst the chaos of the melee, little evidence was left behind, which puts Slade's expert tracking... 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

Deadwood

By: Matt Braun

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Braun turns the classic elements of tough men and rough land into westerns that ring with authenticity. A native of the West and author of 31 novels, he bases many of his book on historic records. Deadwood draws on accounts of the infamous Butch Cassidy and his gang. The mountains and canyons of Dakota Territory create the perfect hideout... Read more

Tombstone

By: Matt Braun

Narrated by: Peter Waldren

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Luke Starbuck knew Death's designs were as uncompromising as justice, and as cold and final as an unmarked grave. But when Wyatt Earp and his gang were ambushed one moonlit evening and Earp emerged from the barrage of shotgun fire very much alive, Starbuck began to wonder if there was more to the ambitious, flint-eyed desperado than met the eye. Read more

Return to Oakpine

By: Ron Carlson

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ron Carlson is a widely respected author whose accolades include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Ploughshares Cohen Prize. Return to Oakpine spins a story of growing up and growing old as four high school friends and former bandmates reconnect 30 years after graduating. When they learn that one of them is dying, it feels like... Read more

Shavetail

By: Thomas Cobb

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Cobb's second novel is a "thoughtful Western" (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and... Read more

Ralph Compton The Bloody Trail

By: Ralph Compton & Marcus Galloway

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The nationally best-selling novels of Ralph Compton bare a distinct Western brand characterized by authentic period detail and thunderous action. In The Bloody Trail, Jeremiah Correy gets more than he bargained for when he and the members of his expedition are terrorized by Sam Madigan-a cold-blooded killer who'll take anyone down without a... Read more

Ralph Compton Bluff City

By: David Robbins & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

David Robbins continues the proud tradition of Ralph Compton's Western novels with enough hardscrabble heroes, blazing gun fights, and twisted villains to fill a corral. Bluff City is a booming silver mining town full of pigeons to pluck. When two of its wealthiest citizens devise plans to rob their neighbors legally and illegally, only Clay... Read more

Ralph Compton Outlaw's Reckoning

By: Ralph Compton & Marcus Galloway

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Popular author Marcus Galloway continues the tradition of the legendary Ralph Compton with Outlaw's Reckoning-a classic Western tale with an intriguing twist. Outlaws Gus McCord and Doyle Hill aren't exactly model citizens, so when they happen upon the kidnapping of a shipping mogul's daughter, every instinct in their thievin' bones says to walk... Read more

Ralph Compton Ride the Hard Trail

By: David Robbins & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The literary legacy of USA Today best-selling author and Medicine Pipe Bearer Award nominee Ralph Compton lives on in Ride the Hard Trail. Hiding from the law, brothers Lin and Chancy Bryce hire on as cowpunchers at a widow's ranch. But soon they're embroiled in a range war with a nefarious cattle baron who has a small army of hired guns... 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

Ralph Compton North to the Salt Fork

By: Ralph Compton & Dusty Richards

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The USA Today best-selling Ralph Compton novels embody the rugged terrain and never-say-die spirit of the Old West. In North to the Salt Fork, Dusty Richards pens a gripping tale of one man's fight for the life he's earned. Captain Jack Starr, a veteran Confederate soldier, looks to Lost Dog Creek as the place he'll find some measure of peace.... Read more

Ralph Compton Fatal Justice

By: David Robbins & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Years ago Marshal Asher Thrall shot mad-dog killer Ben Sharkey. And he?s just repaid the favor in spades. With a bullet still in his chest, Ash knows he?s a walking dead man. But he?s going to make sure Sharkey takes his last step first? Read more

Ralph Compton The Amarillo Trail

By: Jory Sherman & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Spur Award winner Jory Sherman takes the reins for the next installment of Ralph Compton's long-running Trail Drive series. Doc Blaine has agreed to drive 3,000 head of cattle from Texas to Kansas, and the only help around are his sons Jared and Miles. But the boys are in love with the same woman, and their vow to kill each other on sight... Read more

Ralph Compton The Ghost of Apache Creek

By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The only folk left behind in Apache Creek are ghosts, including Marshall Sam Pace. Three years of solitude have turned Sam into a phantom, but when a woman on the run stumbles into town, the former lawman must protect her and make use of gunslinger skills long out of practice... Read more