Westerns audiobooks

Texas Standoff

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In Elmer Kelton's Texas Standoff, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts.The two biggest cattlemen in the area blame each other for the violence, but it seems to Andy that neither man may be guilty. The case is complicated by the rise of a gang of... Read more

Billy Gashade

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Loren D. Estleman, one of America's most critically acclaimed authors, is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee who has won three Shamuses, four Golden Spurs, and three Western Heritage Awards. One of Estleman's most unique works, Billy Gashade follows the adventures of a 16-year-old vagabond who wanders the Old West, crossing paths... Read more

That Old Ace in the Hole

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.

Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be... Read more

Hell's Riders

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The tough-skinned novels of famed Western writer Ralph Cotton regularly appear on the USA Today best-seller list. Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack thought he'd seen every despicable act of cruelty and murder any man could exact on another. He thought wrong. When he stumbles upon the butchered remains of a scalptaking massacre, he's choked with... Read more

Journey of the Dead

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An authority on the American West, award winner Loren D. Estleman has been called the most critically acclaimed author of his generation. In Journey of the Dead, Spanish alchemist Franciso de la Zaragoza-more than a hundred years old and known as a wise man and healer-and Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who killed Billy the Kid, meet. The men share... Read more

Wagons West Colorado!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Colorado! Some came for freedom; others, to build a new life. But in 1858, when gold is discovered in the Colorado region, thousands of desperate men and women descend on Denver like a hungry swarm. Homesteaders struggle to hold onto their claims, but none are immune to the effects of gold fever. Wagon train veteran Chet Harris risks his life... Read more

Wagons West Colorado! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Colorado!Some came for freedom; others, to build a new life. But in 1858, when gold is discovered in the Colorado region, thousands of desperate men and women descend on Denver like a hungry swarm. Homesteaders struggle to hold onto their claims, but none are immune to the effects of gold fever. Wagon train veteran Chet Harris risks his life to... Read more

Cities of the Plain

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In his novels, best-selling author Cormac McCarthy creates a western landscape filled with characters that are both myhic and authentic. Cities of the Plain, the stunning conclusion of his award-winning Border trilogy, brings together John Grady Cole and Billy Parham-the two lifelong friends who began their adventures in All the Pretty Horses.... Read more

Savagery of the Mountain Man

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

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author William W. Johnstone has penned more than 200 novels, and is especially loved for his Westerns. Smoke Jensen travels from his peaceful Sugarloaf Ranch to Santa Clara, Colorado, where he wins an auction for a pureblood Hereford bull. But this makes Pogue Quentin, the town's leading citizen and a man accustomed to bloodshed,... 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

Other Men's Horses

By: Elmer Kelton

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what appears to be a routine duty. Donley Bannister, a West Texas horse trader, has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum, who stole one of Bannister's horses. Ranger Pickard is ordered to find and arrest Bannister and bring him to trial.The Bannister case turns out to be anything but routine. Pickard picks up... Read more

The Broken Gun

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ninety years ago the Toomey brothers, along with twenty-five other men and four thousand head of cattle, vanished en route to Arizona. When writer and historian Dan Sheridan is invited to the missing brothers’ ranch by its current owner, he jumps at the chance. The visit fits right in with his plan to solve the century-old mystery—but it... Read more

The Lonesome Gods (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn, Jason Culp, Dan John Miller &...

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Western, now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program—with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son, Beau L'Amour.

"I am Johannes Verne, and I am not afraid."

This was the boy's mantra as he plodded through the desert alone, left to die by his vengeful grandfather. Johannes Verne was soon to... 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

Sudden Fury

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

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Entries in the Last Gunfighter series blast their way up best-seller lists and win new fans with each riveting adventure. In Sudden Fury, something monstrous is terrorizing loggers in the Redwoods. So when a timber baron puts a bounty on its head, all manner of miscreants come out of the woodwork, guns blazing, to score a quick buck. But Frank... 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 Walking Drum

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century.
 
Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge,... Read more

Journal of the Gun Years

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Richard Matheson, best known for his horror and fantasy writing, comes a highly praised Western that shows the master's hand in this genre as well. Back East, they told tall tales about Marshal Clay Halser, the fearless Civil War veteran who became known as the "Hero of the Plains" for his daring exploits... Read more

Wagons West California!

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

CALIFORNIA! Gold fever. It swept the country from coast to coast, luring more than a hundred thousand seekers to the untamed territory of California. For them, the Gold Rush of 1848 represented the American Dream come true. But for the settlers who lived there, it was an all-out assault on the homes they’d struggled so hard to build. Now... Read more

Wagons West California! - Abridged

By: Dana Fuller Ross

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CALIFORNIA!Gold fever. It swept the country from coast to coast, luring more than a hundred thousand seekers to the untamed territory of California. For them, the Gold Rush of 1848 represented the American Dream come true. But for the settlers who lived there, it was an all-out assault on the homes they’d struggled so hard to build. Now... Read more

Canyon Diablo

By: Max McCoy

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In Canyon Diablo by Spur Award winner Max McCoy, two brothers agree to settle their simmering feud at an old desert mission. But then they find a pile of dead bodies there-and one mortally wounded survivor who promises them riches beyond their dreams if they return his prized possessions to Canyon Diablo. "Max McCoy is a masterful storyteller... Read more

The Bounty Hunters

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Josh Clark

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there's a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate... Read more

Last of the Breed

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must... Read more

The Moonshine War

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“Leonard is tops in his field.”
—New Orleans Times-PicayuneThe great Elmore Leonard, “America’s pre-eminent crime fiction writer” (Chicago Tribune), takes readers back to Prohibition days in the back hills of Kentucky in a rollicking story of guns, greed, and illegally brewed corn liquor. The Moonshine War is a tale of the chaos that ensues when... Read more