Westerns audiobooks

The Silent Outcast [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Lauran Paine

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Mi...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Caleb Doorn is better known by his Blackfoot name, Many Coups. Doorn is scouting for the U.S. Army in the Mexican campaign when a small wagon train passes on its way to California. Their trek will take them into Indian country, and to protect the train from attack, the wagon master has foolishly taken a young Blackfoot woman hostage. Read more

Reach High, Tophand! [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Dwight Bennett Newton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Mi...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Original story published in Lariat story magazine - July 1947 Read more

Payroll of the Dead [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Steve Frazee

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Eric Messner, Mi...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Honest presentation is only one characteristic of Frazee's well-crafted tales. He tells a convincing, satisfying, and unusual story even when employing stock Western situations. A major strength is his understanding of the nuances of character, of how people are motivated, of the good and bad within each person, and of the conflicts between man... Read more

Stage Station [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Ernest Haycox

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

About the fascinating Mrs. King, young Rosalia Dures and the strong, silent Tom Folliard. A story in which bullets supply the answer after all other ways fail. Read more

Gunless Gunman [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, D...

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Tom Dallas has changed his way of living. All the shootings in which he was involved were justified, but there are many who want his scalp which prompts him to make a vow that he will not pack bullets in his .45 for a year. Then a situation develops that can only result in breaking his vow. Read more

A Hundred Ways To Kill [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Dylan Lynch, Jam...

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves. One is a rancher's son. The other a Half Breed outcast. To kill one you'd have to kill them both. And that would take an army—and a whole lot of luck...
Heading west to San Diego some honest pilgrims paid ten men good money to keep their wagon train safe. Soon word comes to Tombstone, where Matt Bodine and... Read more

Vengeance of the Mountain Man [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Thomas P...

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some people don't know when to leave bad enough alone. Just when it seemed that Smoke Jensen's life had settled down to something resembling normal, he'd all but forgotten the vicious young gunfighter who called himself Sundance. Smoke had hoped to teach that twisted kid a lesson by shooting off his ear. But the lesson didn't take. Now, after... Read more

Moonshine Massacre [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Thomas Penny, Dylan Lynch, James L...

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves came to Kansas, they didn't know the Governor had just made the state liquor-free. But it doesn't take Matt long to find a place to drink and a family of enterprising moonshiners with one stunningly beautiful daughter. Trouble is, while Matt is falling hard, Sam is being recruited by a sheriff who happens to... Read more

Badger Boy [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Eri...

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Civil War is over and Confederate Texas is reluctantly yielding to Union military peace-keepers and regulations imposed by Washington. David "Rusty" Shannon is the member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Comanche depredations. He learns that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his farm on... Read more

The Way of the Coyote [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Eli...

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Young Andy Pickard, known among the Comanches as Badger Boy, is now a teenager, and has been learning to live with the Texans from whom he was stolen years before. His divided loyalties between the Comanches and the whites lead to another kidnapping. Five-year-old Billy Gifford is taken by a warrior named Fights With Bears. Andy must save his... Read more

Fury of the Mountain Man [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Steven C...

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Smoke Jensen was the last Mountain Man and the fastest gun in the west. But this time, Smoke is going to put his reputation to the test in the southern reaches of Mexico. When two Mexican Gunfighters, and old friends of Smoke Jensen, send a letter asking Smoke for help, he can't possibly say no. He quickly straps on his hog legs and heads down... Read more

Good Old Boys [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Dylan Lynch, Tim...

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century, like automobiles, telephones and barbed wire fences. He and his friends, all of them good old boys, must learn... Read more

Hard Trail to Follow [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, T...

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Andy Pickard felt ready to settle down, until the violent death of a good friend sends him on the road again, to bring a killer to justice. His trail takes him away from Bethel Brackett, but reunites him with old friends Rusty Shannon and Len Tanner. The bank-robbing fugitive he seeks may not even be the killer, but justice must be served. ... Read more

Preacher's Fire [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, Christopher Graybill,...

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A big city like St Louis is the last place where a mountain man like Preacher would pick a fight. But how else will he get at the ruthless power broker who is using fear and bloodshed to take over the Western fur trade? Shaving his beard and posing as a farmer from Ohio, Preacher comes face-to-face with Shad Beaumont and insinuates himself into... Read more

Ranger's Trail [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Dan...

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rusty Shannon has left the Rangers and feels the need to settle down. He has brought up Andy Pickard, once a captive of the Comanches, now in his twenties and eager to see more of the world. Rusty's dream of marrying Josie Monahan and living the life of a farmer seems like Paradise, compared to the Civil War and the evils of Reconstruction. His... Read more

Jericho's Road [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, J...

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border, along with Len Tanner and Farley Brackett, to help stop rival cattle barons, Texan Jericho Jackson and Mexicano Guadalupe Chavez, who rob each other, and any ranchers in their path, driving the stolen animals across the border. Caught in the crossfire is rancher Big Jim McCawley and... Read more

Battle of the Mountain Man [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Tim Getm...

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Smoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants--even if he has to... Read more

Slaughter of Eagles [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, David Coyne, Colleen ...

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Phoenix a sheriff guns down a banker and robs him of a document. Going to the banker's aid, a witness hears the dying man's last words and takes hold of the map the sheriff was really after. By the time the crooked lawman realizes he has the wrong document, Jolene Wellington is on the run - and framed for the murder of the banker.
Back east,... Read more

Other Men's Horses [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, N...

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Donley Bannister shot and killed Cletus Slocum for stealing and crippling one of his best horses. He ran, leaving his wife Geneva behind. She sets off to find him, with Ranger Andy Pickard on her trail, hoping she'll lead him to Donley. Cletus' brothers are on the road, too, seeking revenge. Along the way, Andy discovers that the innocent... Read more

Spirit of the Mountain Man [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Tim Carl...

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nursing a bitter hatred for Smoke Jensen, the man responsible for landing them in Yuma Territorial Prison, Olin Buckner, Ralph Tinsdale and twisted archenemy Victor Spectre manage to escape and rally an army of gunslingers and cutthroats for the purpose of getting even. And their first act is to kidnap Sally, Smoke Jensen's wife. Read more

Killing Ground [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, James Konicek, Casie ...

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Lucky Lizard is bad luck. Not that the Nevada mine is empty; it's full of silver. But the man who thinks he owns it fair and square is in for a very unpleasant surprise—a ruthless, hard driving Easterner named Dex Brighton shows up with a seemingly valid claim. Town marshal Frank Morgan has his suspicions and sends for some San Francisco... Read more

Power of the Mountain Man [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: William W. Johnstone

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, James Lewis, Joe Brac...

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the depth of a cruel High Lonesome winter comes a cryptic message for Smoke Jensen. The letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Smoke knows only one person in the city by the bay: the well-rounded, open-natured Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure... Read more

Ambush Valley [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, James Konicek, Thomas...

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Yuma Prison is a fetid hellhole filled with the dregs of humanity—killers, thieves and backstabbers who'd kill over a scrap of meat. Now it's home to Frank Morgan, who's posing as an inmate. A ruthless outlaw named Cicero McCoy has buried a fortune in stolen bank money in a harsh, desolate little piece of hell known as Ambush Valley. To get... Read more

Hard Country [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

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

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Richard Rohan, Danny Gavigan, Mich...

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's hard country, but the pioneers of Fury (Population 112) are banding together to make it a home. With barren lands, blinding dust storms, drought, hostile Indians and violent bands of cutthroat outlaws against them, death is never far away. It's enough to make Jason Fury, whose father the town was named after, ride out for San Francisco. But... Read more