Westerns audiobooks

The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Orphaned as a child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry, raised and trained to take over his empire of crime. Today, Mike is the quickest draw and the stealthiest tracker around, and Ben Curry is getting ready to retire. To test Mike’s wings, he has set him a task: the planning and execution of a gold-train robbery.Now,... Read more

Jargan

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Now you can enjoy one of Max Brand’s classic short novels, a form that flourished during the heyday of American fiction magazines. Too short to stand alone and too long for most anthologies, such stories as these have been largely lost to Western fiction fans until now.Jargan is a summer gambler wintering in the western town of Big Horn when he... Read more

Big Country, Vol. 1

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour said the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a “big country needing big men and women to live in it.” The two stories in this collection provide a good sample of the kinds of people he had in mind.“Ride, You Tonto Raiders”Matt Sabre is a young and experienced gunfighter—but not a trouble seeker. However, when... Read more

Louis L’Amour’s Desert Tales

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

These two tales set in the wild desert pit the forces of fierce nature against the sturdy character of the Western man."Law of the Desert"Shad Marone is a lone gunman on the run from the law. He shot a man in a fair fight, but the man was the sheriff's brother, and Shad knows he'll never get a fair trial. He is being tracked by a man named... Read more

Tales from the Trail

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Grub Line Rider" Most folks would call Kim Sartain an easygoing, peace-loving man. But the few who crossed the young drifter knew there was nothing he liked better than a good fight. When cattleman Jim Targ challenges Sartain's right to ride across an unclaimed stretch of meadow, Sartain decides he'll do better than ride through; he'll put down... Read more

Louis L’Amour’s Western Tales

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two exciting adventures from the pen of Louis L'Amour."Trap of Gold"Wetherton has been three months out of Horsehead before he finds his first color. The gold is located at the head of a fan laying in a gigantic crack in a granite upthrust that resembles a fantastic ruin. This crumbling granite is slashed with a vein of quartz that is... Read more

Keep Travelin’, Rider

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle John Gentry’s G Bar. To his amazement, the ranch has a new owner, who is unimpressed when Tack explains that his uncle was a Quaker, didn’t believe in violence, and never carried a gun. His advice to Tack is to make tracks. But Tack has other plans. Read more

Louis L’Amour’s Trio of Tales

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In McQueen of the Tumbling K, Ward McQueen is foreman for Ruth Kermitt, owner of the Tumbling K Ranch. He finds traces of a man, apparently wounded, who has sought shelter in the hinterlands of the Tumbling K, but he is unable to locate him. When McQueen rides into town, he is shot down by gunmen and left for dead. But they made a critical... Read more

Morgette and the Shadow Bomber

By: Glenn G. Boyer

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Dolf Morgette, legendary gunfighter and lawman of the Old West, is in Alaska when he first hears about a series of mysterious bombings in Pinebluff, Idaho. At first, it sounds like the bombings are being directed at mine owners, probably by disgruntled miners who are unhappy about recent cuts in wages. But when the danger threatens his family,... Read more

From Missouri

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Rumor has it that a schoolteacher from the East is coming out West to teach school. Three Springer Ranch cowhands have tried to discourage her from coming by forging letters. But their strategy has failed to overpower the more persuasive love letters from a certain mysterious Frank Owens. No one knows who he is.When Jane Stacey arrives, everyone... Read more

Over the Northern Border

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a fool thing to do, but Jack Trainor did it. In order to help keep his sister’s husband from going to jail for robbery, Jack agrees to ride out on the getaway horse, drawing suspicions away from his brother-in-law and onto himself. But eluding the posse that follows him in hot pursuit turns out to be much harder than Jack had thought. And... Read more

Hundred in the Hand

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III & John Terry

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Seeking to round out the compelling story of the American West, bestselling Lakota author Joseph M. Marshall III brings a new slant to the traditional Western: historical fiction written from the Native American viewpoint.This riveting novel takes place during the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, otherwise known as the Fetterman Massacre of... Read more

The Long Knives Are Crying

By: Joseph M. Marshall III

Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall III’s acclaimed Lakota Western series begins in 1875, as Sitting Bull gathers thousands of Lakota to face the growing problem of white incursion.What follows is a sweeping tale of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including the days and weeks leading up to the conflict and the remarkable defeat of General... Read more

Big Country, Vol. 2

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a “big country needing big men and women to live in it.” Here are three more of his fine short stories about the West.West of the Tularosa Ruth Kermitt, owner of the Tumbling K ranch, made a deal with old Tom McCracken, owner of the Firebox spread, to buy his... Read more

Big Country, Vol. 3

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L’Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a “big country needing big men and women to live in it.” This volume presents five more of L’Amour’s fine short stories about the West, restored according to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines.“Riding for the Brand” Jed Asbury was... 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

Riders of the Purple Sage

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now, for the first time in a century, Zane Grey’s best-known novel is presented in its original form exactly as he wrote it.In Cottonwoods, Utah, in 1871, a woman stands accused and a man is sentenced to whipping. Into this travesty of small-town justice rides the one man whom the town elders fear. His name is Lassiter, and he is a notorious... Read more

Man Riding West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Here is one of the stories penned by America’s favorite Western author with its text restored to the state of its initial publication in the magazine West in 1950.It starts out... Read more

The Lion Hunter and the Lady

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

No one describes the adventures of the lone cowboy better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of the Old West before the days of law and order. Here is one of Louis L’Amour’s short stories, with text restored according to the state of its initial publication.In “The Lion Hunter and the Lady,” the lion hunter is called Cat Morgan... Read more

That Printer of Udell’s

By: Harold Bell Wright

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As a boy, Dick Falkner ran away from abject poverty and an abusive alcoholic father. Sixteen years later, he finds himself hungry of body and empty of spirit in a Midwestern town. Although he finds no help in this so-called Christian town, he is eventually taken in by George Udell, a local publisher and kindhearted man. Through hard work and... 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

Silver City Massacre

By: Charles G. West

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A treacherous journey …Joel McAllister is a lieutenant in the Confederate Army—or at least he was, until Lee surrendered. Now he's determined to get as far away from war as possible, somewhere beyond North and South … and maybe somewhere with some gold: Idaho Territory.Accompanied by his steadfast sergeant, Riley, the two former soldiers travel... 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

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