Westerns audiobooks

The Bandera Trail - Abridged

By: Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The only riches Texans has left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-blazing trail drives.

Set on rescuing their old friend Clay... Read more

Hanging Judge - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Elmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is a legend in the field of Western literature. Famous for his realistic characters and accurate depictions of the history of his home state of Texas, Elmer Kelton continues to write exceptional novels of American history.

In Hanging Judge, Justin... Read more

Bitter Trail

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico.

Sounds like a peaceable enterprise?

The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold--gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.

And, added to... Read more

The Chisholm Trail - Abridged

By: Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Armed with only a Colt rifle, a Bowie knife, and courage as big as the West, Ten Chisholm—the bold, illegitimate son of frontier scout and plains ambassador Jesse Chisholm and a Cherokee woman—arrives in the heart of Comanche country with a price on his head. His only crime: loving the beautiful daughter of a powerful New Orleans gambler who has... Read more

Bitter Trail - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico.

Sounds like a peaceable enterprise?

The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold--gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.

And, added to... Read more

Reilly's Luck

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Val Darrant was just four years old the snowy night his mother abandoned him. But instead of meeting a lonely death, he met Will Reilly—a gentleman, a gambler, and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years they each were all the family the other had, traveling from dusty American boomtowns to the glittering cities of Belle Époque... Read more

How the West Was Won

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who’d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart—and his home—in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited... Read more

The Devil's Badland

By: J.A. Johnstone

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

J. A. Johnstone-niece and former writing partner of the late Western legend William W. Johnstone-carries on her uncle's legacy with this second book from her Loner series. After his wife is murdered, Conrad "Kid Morgan" Browning hunts down the men responsible- then visits his wife's grave in New Mexico. There, he is shocked to discover his... Read more

Promised to Me

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Mother and Father, After all those years, I was certain Jakob Hirsch had forgotten me. Then came his proposal of marriage. With more impulse than wisdom, I crossed the ocean to begin a new life with him in Shadow Creek, Idaho. Little did I dream of the changes eleven years had brought to the man I once loved—which included three small... Read more

North to Yesterday

By: Robert Flynn

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Lampassas gave up cowpunching to be a husband and shopkeeper. But when his wife dies of influenza, the aging cowboy puts on his spurs again. With his 17-year-old son at his side, Lampassas sets off on his own cattle drive. His adventures and misadventures are the stuff classic Westerns are made of, yet the unforgettable characters and gentle... Read more

Ralph Compton The Convict Trail

By: Joseph A. West & Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the grand tradition of legendary author Ralph Compton comes this tense, thrill-a-minute Western. Deputy Marshal Logan Kane is in for one tough ride. He's got six ruthless convicts caged in a prison wagon, and it's his job alone to transport them safely across treacherous, unforgiving terrain. Holding off rustlers, outlaw gangs, lynch mobs,... Read more

The Pumpkin Rollers

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Six-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton was named the greatest Western author of all time by the Western Writers of America. In this novel, 18-year-old farmer Trey McLean aspires to be a cattle rancher. He leaves East Texas with four cows and heads west, but a corrupt sheriff quickly steals the animals. Helpless and confused, Trey finds trouble... 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

Hanging Judge

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Elmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is a legend in the field of Western literature. Famous for his realistic characters and accurate depictions of the history of his home state of Texas, Elmer Kelton continues to write exceptional novels of American history. In Hanging Judge, Justin... Read more

In His Arms

By: Robin Lee Hatcher

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Inga,I’m thinking it is not good for my baby and me to stay much longer in Whistle Creek, Idaho. The sheriff is showing altogether too much interest. I suppose I should feel flattered, for Carson Barclay is not only strikingly handsome, but a man of character and faith who has shown Keary and me considerable kindness. But I’m afraid his... Read more

Kinch

By: Matt Braun

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Braun is a master of Western fiction. His ability to capture the flavor of the wild American frontier and the personalities of its rough men has earned him scores of dedicated fans. They relish the world of Braun's novels, where lives depend on a sharp eye and a steady trigger. In the summer of 1871, a Texas gang threatening the residents... Read more

Gallant Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Blythe gazed into his eyes. It seemed as if she were looking into his very soul. Could she read genuine repentance there . . . or just regret that he had brought shame to himself, disgraced his family? Suddenly, she knew. This was the real Malcolm -- before the War, before Rose died, before his life became a wasteland. She saw the Malcolm who... Read more

Folly's Bride

By: Jane Peart

Narrated by: Renee Raudman & Reneé Raudman

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sara! You must come out! You're wanted downstairs right away," Lucie hissed through the keyhole on the locked bedroom door. "Stepmama is furious and Father has sent word that he's coming home early from the Exchange. She says he's in a rage over what you've done!" "I haven't done anything! It's not my fault if those two hotheads decide to fight... Read more

The Western Trail - Abridged

By: Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the aftermath of the Civil War, cash-starved Texans turned to the only resource they possessed in abundance: longhorn cows. Despite the hazards of trailing longhorns across some three hundred miles of Indian Territory, this was the only way to access the railroad…
THE WESTERN TRAIL
Benton McCaleb and his band of bold-spirited cowboys traveled... Read more

Sons of Texas - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a foray into Spanish-held Texas to hunt wild... Read more

Stand Proud - Abridged

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Stand Proud, one of his most controversial novels, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton takes on a character who is not as easy to like as he is to admire. Frank Claymore is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant--just the qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattle rancher on the West Texas frontier. Stand Proud follows... Read more

The Goodnight Trail - Abridged

By: Ralph Compton

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they'll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with... Read more

Moon Medicine

By: Mike Blakely

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Texan Mike Blakely is the best-selling author of Comanche Dawn (S1024) and a co-editor of Forever Texas (S1037). Moon Medicine is the story of a boy genius with a peculiar sensitivity to lunar cycles. Jean-Guy lives in a school for boys in France until he murders his vile fencing teacher for raping a woman. He is smuggled aboard a Clipper ship... Read more

Summer of Pearls

By: Mike Blakely

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A once-booming riverboat community, Port Caddo is a now struggling Texas town due to the emergence of the railroad. A series of incidents leads to the discovery of the first fresh water pearl, and the town is rejuvinated. Mike Blakely transports listeners to a time filled with hope in a lost little town. George Guidall's lively narration... Read more