Westerns audiobooks

Showdown Trail

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon," Mike Bastian has been raised by outlaw chief Ben Curry and trained in frontier skills by Curry's most trusted associates. Curry now wants to retire from leadership of the gang he has headed for years. But he is frustrated in this ambition by... Read more

The Range Wolf

By: Andrew J. Fenady

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

No one dares stand up against the man known far and wide as the Range Wolf. Wolf Riker runs his domain with an iron will and smoking guns. And now Christopher Guthrie has signed on to join Riker on his most daring and dangerous journey yet, driving a herd of seven thousand cattle from Texas to Kansas, through land filled with Kiowa, Comanche,... Read more

Helltown Massacre

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the best-selling Western writers of all time, William W. Johnstone established three of the genre's most enduring characters in Matt and Smoke Jensen and their stalwart friend Preacher. In Helltown Massacre, the family Jensen lands squarely in the crosshairs of a railroad tycoon trying to run the iron horse through Paiute territory. To... Read more

Out of the Wilderness

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Dunstan is a big rancher who wants to become bigger, to control more land. So when he buys Dr. Henry Morgan's ranchland that has been unsuccessfully converted to farming, it is his intention to return it to open range. The only stipulation the doctor makes is that Dunstan must retain Sandy Sweyn, who has more or less been Dr. Morgan's... Read more

Mattie

By: Judy Alter

Narrated by: Pam Hyatt

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The daughter of a fallen woman, Mattie Armstrong's life should have ended in poverty and failure. But at 14, Mattie escaped her gossiping neighbors and her loneliness, and went to work for Dr. Dinsmore. There, she began to nurture a dream that would take her to the Nebraska prairies as the state's first woman doctor. This novel breathes life... Read more

Six-Gun Snow White

By: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A plain-spoken, appealing narrator relates the history of her parents - a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him. With her mother's death in childbirth, so begins a heroine's tale equal parts heartbreak and strength. This girl has been born into a world... Read more

Torture Town

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the town of Thirty-Four Corners, Colorado, Matt Jensen rides into a savage blood feud. Thirty years ago two friends came West and built a thriving cattle business. Now, their families have become kill-crazy enemies and the town is awash in a frenzy of killing. Add in hired gunmen on both sides of the fight, and two lovers crossing the... 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

Wynne’s War

By: Aaron Gwyn

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An elite platoon of Special Forces soldiers infiltrates a forbidding Afghan war zone on horseback in search of vast treasure in this lyrical, thrilling blend of military fiction and Western.When Corporal Elijah Russell's superb horsemanship is revealed during a firefight in northern Iraq, the young Army Ranger is assigned to an elite Special... Read more

Any Other Name

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“He’s like a gun; once you point him and pull the trigger, it’s too late to change your mind.”Sheriff Walt Longmire is sinking into a high-plains winter discontent when his former boss Lucian Connally asks him to take on a special case: A detective is dead, and Lucian wants to know what drove this by-the-book lawman to take his own life. With... Read more

Deadman’s Road

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gunslinging preacher.The Wild West has never seen the likes of the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible in the battle between God and the devil, in an endless struggle he's not sure he cares who... Read more

Glorious

By: Jeff Guinn

Narrated by: David Carpenter

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight, Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West, weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872.

We’ve all got mistakes in our past we’d rather forget.

Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that... Read more

Ragtime Cowboys

By: Loren D. Estleman

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In Prohibition-era Southern California, real-life detectives Charles A. Siringo and Dashiell Hammett must solve a mystery involving a ruthless politician—Joseph P. Kennedy. With sharp dialogue and a rich historical background, Ragtime Cowboys is an exciting, suspenseful tale of bribery, blackmail, and murder.Los Angeles, 1921: Ex–Pinkerton agent... Read more

The Painter

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the... Read more

Backlands

By: Michael McGarrity

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael McGarrity returns with the second installment of his sweeping, richly authentic New York Times bestselling American West trilogy set in the raw, untrammeled New Mexico backlands during the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II. Hard Country , the first novel in the Kerney family trilogy and the debut prequel to his... Read more

Rode

By: Thomas Fox Averill

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

***2012 Spur Award Finalist, Best Western Long Novel When Thomas Fox Averill first heard Jimmy Driftwood's ballad "Tennessee Stud," he found the song hauntingly compelling. As he began to imagine the story behind the lyrics, he set out to research the song's history-a tale from "along about eighteen and twenty-five"" of the legendary exploits of... Read more

Gunsmoke, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360 & CBS Radio

Narrated by: William Conrad & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Around Dodge City and in the territory out West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a US marshal and the smell of … Gunsmoke!"Radio Westerns were strictly for kids until 1952, when Gunsmoke hit the radio airwaves. The stories were grim, the deaths brutal, and life on the plains was harsh. Radio... Read more

Crossfire Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Rafe Caradec—gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune—was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship’s fo’c’sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney’s Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found... 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

Have Gun—Will Travel, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: John Dehner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Have Gun—Will Travel follows the adventures of Paladin, a soldier of fortune turned hired gunfighter, played by John Dehner. Paladin prefers to settle problems without violence, yet when forced to fight, he excels.It's 1875, and Paladin lives at the swanky Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, where he dresses in formal wear, eats gourmet food,... Read more

Butchery of the Mountain Man

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In Montana Territory, one name above all others strikes fear and hatred in the hearts of the Crow Indians - John Jackson, better known these days as Liver-Eating Jackson. Consumed by grief and rage, the mountain man has brutally killed ten braves so far in his one-man war of vengeance against the Crow, who murdered his beloved wife. Smoke Jensen... Read more

The Sweet Spot

By: Laura Drake

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Love as Big as Texas . . . Charla Rae Denny was the perfect wife with a perfect life, content to keep the home fires burning while her husband, JB, competed as a champion bull rider. Then their son died in a tragic accident-and everything fell apart. Divorced and saddled with a hill of bills and a failing ranch, Charla must now cowboy up to... Read more

Wide Open

By: Larry Bjornson

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on actual events, this is the epic story of Abilene, Kansas, at a time when the cowboy was king, might made right, and the future seemed as unsettled as the endless prairie. Abilene, 1871. Will Merritt is fiercely protective of the cattle trade that made his father' s fortune. Idolizing the cowboys who flood the streets each summer, Will... Read more

The Proving Trail

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

They tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. No matter what life had dealt him, his father would go down fighting. And as he delved deeper into the mystery, he learned that just before his father died, the elder McRaven had experienced a remarkable run of luck: he’d won nearly ten thousand ... Read more