Westerns audiobooks

The Road to Casas 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

Beyond the Great Snow Mountains - Abridged

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Terrence Mann

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the American West to the Siberian coast, from Hollywood to the boxing ring, here are timeless tales of war, mystery, romance, crime, and punishment as only Louis L'Amour can tell them.

These stories are vintage L'Amour:
• A hard-bitten cattle driver is pitted against a man trying to steal his woman, the disappearance of a thousand head of... Read more

Dead Shot

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

There’s money—and lives—on the line for this tracker. Explosive Western adventure from the authors of Luke Jensen, Bounty Hunter.The Greatest Western Writer of the 21st CenturyIn the bestselling novels of William W. Johnstone, mountain man Smoke Jensen is a legend. Now, Johnstone presents the adventures of Smoke’s long-lost brother Luke, who was... Read more

Ralph Compton the Last Manhunt

By: Joseph A. West & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Reporter Lester Booker joins legendary gunfighter Rance March on the trail of a dangerous outlaw to learn how the West was really won 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

City of Rocks

By: Michael Zimmer

Narrated by: James Jenner & Brian Hutchison

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

***2013 Spur Award Finalist, Best Western Short Novel When the McCandles' Gang decides to shoot up Coalville, Idaho, it seems like a pretty easy hit. But among the survivors is a young man named Joseph Roper. Joey worked with Sheriff Hackett, and he was not about to let Ian McCandles get away with what he has done. This is the story of Joey's... Read more

Going Through Ghosts

By: Mary Sojourner

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

***2011 Spur Award Finalist, Best Western Long Novel Maggie Foltz is a fifty-five-year-old cocktail waitress in a rundown casino in the southern Nevada Mojave Desert. She spends her days serving drinks to lonely old folks playing the slot machines and her nights trying to escape her bitter past. When she befriends Sarah, a young Native American... Read more

Murphy's Ambush

By: Gary Paulsen & Brian Burks

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Gary Paulsen, a Golden Spur award-winning author, collaborates with Brian Burks for this western-mystery tale of unlikely heroes and villains that is refreshingly free of gratuitous violence and sex. Life in Turrett, New Mexico was quiet until Travis Price rode into town bleeding and gravely wounded by an arrow. Paulsen and Burks serve up a vast... Read more

Black Horse Creek

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the American West, a hell-bent boy and his father come up against a former marshal who isn't above breaking the law.There's no taming Billy Blanchard. He's cut from the same rough cloth as his father, Jacob, the man who built the town of Black Horse Creek from nothing. Jacob takes pride in Billy's lawless, wild ways. But when the boy... Read more

Calico Trail

By: David R. Lewis

Narrated by: David R. Lewis

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When old money and older entitlement invade Missouri, Ruben Beeler is dispatched by the Federal Marshals Service to investigate complaints from small farmers and ranchers that a wealthy Englishman is taking over an entire county. Rube leaves his wife and their baby at home, and enters into a conflict where might is right, and Sir Merrit... Read more

Strike of the Mountain Man

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The tales of the Mountain Man represent the best of the Western genre in all its thundering glory-and few gunfighters are as compelling, or as deadly, as Smoke Jensen. In Shootout of the Mountain Man, Billy Ray Cabot is set to hang, but the people planning to string him up haven't reckoned on his old association with Smoke Jensen. As loyal as... Read more

Mark of the Hunter

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Razed from childhood…No child should have to witness what twelve-year-old Cord Malone saw the day his parents were murdered and his home burned to the ground. Rescued from the blaze by his uncle Jesse, the terrible image still haunts him, as does the name of the man responsible: Levi Creed.Jesse tried to track the man down, only to lose Creed's... 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

The Outcasts

By: Kathleen Kent

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west.

It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover,... Read more

Rivers

By: Michael Farris Smith

Narrated by: Michael Farris Smith

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region.

It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the... Read more

All the Pretty Horses

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils... Read more

Snowbound

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla, Scott Sowers, James Jenner, Tom...

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful biographical novel, Richard Wheeler-- winner of the Owen Wister Lifetime Achievement Award and five Spur Awards-- tells the amazing tale of the American explorer and hero, John Fremont, and his attempt to find a railway route to the west along the 38th parallel. Trapped in the snowbound Colorado mountains, Fremont must fight his... Read more

Hard Ride to Hell

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Smoke Jensen and his adopted son Matt are cooling their heels in Colorado when they are called to the Dakotas. Preacher, the legendary mountain man, is in the midst of a vicious struggle. Someone has kidnapped a proud Indian chief's daughter and grandchild. When the kidnapping turns to murder, and Preacher vanishes after clashing with a ruthless... Read more

McKenzie's Bride

By: Tanya Anne Crosby

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fiercely independent, Elizabeth Bowcock - 'Doc Liz' - as she's known by all - vows to raise her orphaned niece as her own. Unfortunately, the child's grandfather has declared the unwed doctor to be an unfit guardian and refuses to deliver her to Liz's care until she finds herself a man...Enter dark-haired, devil-eyed Cutter McKenzie. Outcast for... 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

Ralph Compton Death of a Hangman

By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie Pike is fulfilling Judge Henry Dryden's dying wish by escorting him to Texas. But an outlaw out for revenge is on their trail, determined that they will never reach their destination. 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

Long Road to Cheyenne

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Lured by the promise of the gold rush, Cam Sutton leaves his cow-herding job for the deposit-rich gulches of the Black Hills. But his carefree journey is interrupted when he rescues Mary Bishop and her daughters from a stagecoach holdup. Cam accompanies them on their search for Mr. Bishop, only to discover that he's been murdered in Custer City,... Read more

Mountain Man

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, the first story in his most commercially successful seriesA comedic western, "Mountain Man" is about the tall tales and big adventures of Brekenridge Elkins, an exaggerated, cartoonish version of Howard himself. The story first appeared in the March–April 1934 issue of Action Stories and was so popular... Read more