Westerns audiobooks

Pony

By: R. J. Palacio

Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins & R. J. Palacio

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Perfection.” –The Wall Street Journal

The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide.... Read more

Dancing and Doughnuts

By: Rachel Kovaciny

Narrated by: Steve Corona

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fifty dollars just for asking a few questions? Jedediah Jones figures it must be his lucky day. What dancing and doughnuts have to do with anything, he neither knows nor cares. He’s only interested in earning that money so he can finally eat something other than the apples he's been living off for days. Once his stomach and his pockets are... Read more

Lamentations

By: Carol Kammen

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Lamentations is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author's own decades of... Read more

The Vengeance of Mothers

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Laura Hicks & Erik Steele

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." — Booklist, starred review

The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.

9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil... Read more

Tackett and the Indian

By: Lyn Nofziger

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Yarn-spinner Nofziger is at the top of his form in this fast-paced adventure from the American frontier. Falsely accused of cattle-rustling upon arriving in Montana, Tackett is rescued by a comely Sioux maiden, only to find himself in constant danger from a vicious cattleman bent on revenge.This fetching tale of romance and derring-do contains... Read more

Flint’s Honor

By: Richard S. Wheeler

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Flint is a dedicated frontier journalist whose only weapon is the truth. But when he pulls into Silver City to set up his crusading weekly newspaper, he fears he’s made a mistake. The overpopulated town is being run into the ground by the corrupt editor of the Silver City Democrat, Digby Westminster. A friend of merchants and flatterer of... Read more

The Last of the Plainsmen

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hezd rope the devil and tie him down...if the lasso didn’t burn,” it was said of “Buffalo Jones,” one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the Old West. Killing was repulsive to him and the passion of his life was to capture wild beasts alive. When he saw that the extinction of the buffalo was inevitable, he labored for... Read more

Black Jack

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Lithe as a panther, black hair flying, Black Jack Hollis rode with a gun in each hand.Recklessly, joyously, Black Jack had ridden into town to see his infant son. Then a shotgun fired from a window had blasted him from his horse and flung him to his death in the street.His young son was taken in by spinster Elizabeth Cornish, who reared him as... Read more

To the Last Man

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

To the Last Man is Zane Grey's archetypal tale of a bitter feud between two unforgiving factions: the ranchers led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of a relentless code of loyalty to their own people, they fight the war of the Tonto Basin, desperately, doggedly, to the last man, neither... Read more

The Desert of Wheat

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I.Young farmer Kurt Dorn is torn between going to France to fight the Germans or staying in America to be with the woman he loves and to protect his wheat crop against saboteurs who question his loyalties. He struggles... Read more

The Vanishing American

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered one of Zane Grey’s best novels, The Vanishing American was originally published in serialized form in the Ladies Home Journal in 1922. It reveals Grey’s empathy for the Native American and his deep concern for the future survival of that culture.It is the story of Nophaie, a young Navajo, who is picked up by a party of whites at the... Read more

The Call of the Canyon

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the master of the western novel comes a tale full of romance and adventure. Carley Burch, a young orphaned woman, is living a life of leisure in her family's New York City home. When her fianc├®, Glenn Kilbourne, returns from France ill and broken after fighting in World War I, he heads west, drawn to the mountains and canyons of Arizona.... Read more

The Trail to Crazy Man

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple. Everything, the lives of men and the stories they told, ran to extremes.Shanghaied into forced labor on a merchant vessel, Charles Rodney dies aboard ship from repeated beatings—but not before deeding part of his ranch to Rafe Caradec, whom he hopes will protect his family.A word from... Read more

Open Range

By: Lauran Paine

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The “open range” men are free-grazing cattlemen—those who don’t own land but drive their stock through the country to graze. But Boss Spearman knows that times are changing for the open rangers. Local ranchers are staking claims to grazing areas and building up extensive cattle empires. Boss has no quarrel with the other ranchers, but he won’t... Read more

The Desert Crucible

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Zane Grey wrote this splendidly thrilling sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage in 1915, but for almost ninety years it existed in a profoundly censored version.Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah's isolated Surprise Valley, one of... Read more

Beyond the Outposts

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From pre-Civil War Virginia to the prairies of the far west, this epic follows young Lew Dorset as he journeys in search of his father. Lew's skill with firearms gets him a job as a hunter with a trader heading onto the prairies to barter with the Indians. There he meets young Chuck Morris, and together they take on a Cheyenne attack party.... Read more

Crusader

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly, attracted by a girl being used as bait. Sparrow Roberts, a fight manager, used this young lady to lure Harry into his own sphere, for he knew that Camden had a truly devastating punch.But fighting wasn't what Harry really wanted. Unimpressed by the blandishments of civilization, he drifted... Read more

The Geraldi Trail

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

James Geraldi is one of the most legendary thieves in the West. But he is not a typical thief. Many an honest rancher or townsman has become a loyal friend when Geraldi rescues their savings, and many a bandit has been conned or bested by him. Having squared himself with the law, Geraldi is about to marry and settle down when his old friend... Read more

The Big Fifty

By: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The reality of frontier life in Kansas in 1872 becomes brutally clear to twelve-year-old Coady McIlvain when his father is scalped by hostile Indians and Coady is taken prisoner. Coady is determined to escape and does so, falling in with a buffalo sharpshooter named Dylan Griffith, whom he sees as the embodiment of his hero, Buffalo Bill Cody, a... Read more

Showdown on the Hogback

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws who are occupying a sizable strip of land that the syndicate has filed, claiming it is unusable swamp. To Kedrick’s dismay, these “vagrants and outlaws” turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmers who have improved the lands they have claimed and are... Read more

The Rider of Lost Creek

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Lance Kilkenny’s gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don’t even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny’s life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny’s help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The... Read more

The Rustlers of Pecos County

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas. They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and somehow formed a state. They called it Texas, but for defenseless women and children, it was hell.Texas Rangers. Although they were outnumbered a thousand to one, the Texas... Read more

Riders of the Dawn

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

InRiders of the Dawn,a young gunslinger is changed for the better by a meeting with a beautiful woman. A classic range-war western, this novel features that powerful, romantic, strangely compelling vision of the American West for which L'Amour's fiction is known. In the author's words, "It was a land where nothing was small, nothing was simple.... Read more

Chasing Destiny

By: Stephen Overholser

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Bobby Eckstrum is known around the town of Columbia as a drunk. In a surprising turn of events, he is thought to have murdered and robbed Roger Simms, a local rancher. A posse is organized, and they hunt down and kill the man they believe to be Bobby.But Destiny Eckstrum, Bobby's daughter, believes they did not kill her father, but rather his... Read more