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Sagebrush and spurs: classic western short stories; edited by
Eric Tripp. 1992. Read by Jonathan Oliver, 10 hours 22
minutes. TB 9913.
The stories in this collection come from the high noon of western
writing, where the American civil war, and subsequent frontier wars
provided a mixture of legend and fact as monuments to national
courage. There are contributions from the earliest protagonists of
the "formula" western, with stories from Jack Schaefer, Stephen
Crane, Owen Wister, O. Henry and others, the emphasis is on
finely drawn characters and believable plots. TB 9913.
Shane. Mr Punch Audio Books. Read by various narrators, 50
minutes. TB 12130.
A Hollywood Playhouse recording. Starring Alan Ladd and Van
Heflin, this classic western, set in the late 1860s tells the story of
the mysterious retired gunslinger who wanders into the frontier
farm of a family of homesteaders, only to find himself involved in a
violent range war. This 'Oscar' winning film was specially adapted
for the radio and performed in front of a live studio audience by
many of the original film stars. TB 12130.
Stories of the old west; edited by John Seelye. 1994. Read by
William Dufris, 21 hours 31 minutes. TB 10734.
The literature of the old west is very old, but stories from the region
only began to appear after the civil war, as the short story emerged
as a major literary form and the west emerged as a separate,
distinctly American culture. This collection brings together fifty of
the best stories of the old west, by some of America's finest
writers, including Bret Harte, Stephen Crane, Jack London and
Mark Twain. TB 10734.
The big book of western action stories; edited with an
introduction and headnotes by Jon Tuska. 1996. Read by
Garrick Hagon, 23 hours 49 minutes. TB 10983.
With selections by the premier short story writers of the genre, the
reader will travel down the "Trail of the lonely gun", with Les
Savage Jr., will witness "The strange ride of Perry Woodstock", by
Max Brand, and will be introduced to Frank Bonham's "Border
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man". Also included are stories by Luke Short, Ernest Haycox,
Ryerson Johnson, and many others. TB 10983.
The Mammoth book of the western: an anthology of classic
stories of the American frontier; edited by Jon E Lewis. 1991.
Read by Garrick Hagon, 21 hours 37 minutes. TB 11945.
This volume brings together more than 20 short novels and stories,
ranging from the excitement of Max Brand's `Wine on the Desert'
to the realism of Stephen Crane's `The Blue Hotel', from Loren D.
Estleman's elegiac `The Bandit' to Jack London's atmospheric `All
Gold Canyon'. Many of the stories, which feature ranchers,
American Indians, outlaws and pioneers, became celebrated films
including Dorothy M. Johnson's `A Man Called Horse'. TB 11945.
The Virginian. Mr Punch, 1998. Read by various narrators, 46
minutes. TB 12135.
A Hollywood Playhouse production. Starring Gary Cooper and
Charles Bickford. The Virginian falls in love with Molly, the local
schoolmarm, and has to vie for her attention with his best friend
who soon becomes involved with a band of outlaws led by the
villainous leader Trampas. The story climaxes with a classic
showdown between Trampas and the Virginian. This 'Oscar'
winning film, was specially adapted for the radio and performed in
front of a live studio audience by many of the original film stars. TB
12135.
Anson, Tom
Plague of gunfighters. 1996. Read by Hayward Morse, 3 hours
55 minutes. TB 11287.
The coming of strangers, a sick man and a young girl, puzzled,
and then divided, the townsfolk of Gabriel. It was the revelation of
just who this man was that caused the sensation. Some folk
showed compassion, others wanted the strangers gone. They had
brought with them the cold breath of fear, and sooner or later, in its
wake would come death. TB 11287.
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Anson, Tom
A desperado. 1996. Read by John Chancer, 4 hours 35
minutes. TB 11225.
Ash Templeman was out for revenge against the desperado Nate
Hode. Unpalatable as it might be, Jowett seemed the only man
capable of bringing Hode in. For Jowett, needing the money, it
meant leaving Emily with only an old man to turn to for help. Jowett
faced constant danger in his pursuit of Hode, and Emily was
threatened by repulsive Charlie Craik. It was to be a time of deceit
and death. TB 11225.
Astill, Gary
Texas rendezvous. 2007. Read by Kenneth Jay, 4 hours 29
minutes. TB 15044.
Falling in love with the boss's daughter was just the beginning of
trouble for young cowhand Leo Postlewaite. Exile from the only
home he had ever known, he rides into Denton and into a shootout with the infamous outlaw Ignacio McKenna. When Ignacio
escapes from custody he rides back to Leo's old haunts and
causes trouble for his adopted family. With Imogen held to ransom
and Ignacio's gang causing havoc for his former boss Leo is forced
to ride into the outlaw's den and face his deadly enemy. Contains
strong language. TB 15044.
Bannerman, Mark
Escape to Purgatory. 1996. Read by Hayward Morse, 4 hours 1
minute. TB 11072.
Wes Cullen is a former confederate Army major convicted of
murder and imprisoned. Finding life behind bars intolerable, he
escapes by bludgeoning down his guard. But the cost of freedom
turns out to be far greater than he expects. TB 11072.
Batchelor, Reg
Guns of the hunters. 1983. Read by Richard Earthy, 4 hours 10
minutes. TB 5201.
When a bullion coach is robbed of twelve thousand dollars worth of
gold bars, Deputy US Marshal Walt Hawke and a tracker called
Jed Rice take up the trail. TB 5201.
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Benson, Tom
The Vernon brand. 2007. Read by Jay Benedict, 3 hours 11
minutes. TB 15350.
The Vernon brand is going to be the biggest in the territory and
Harry Vernon's plans are working out well. Then rustling starts and
a stage-coach is held up with some of Harry's money on board.
Phil Jones is the Elverton deputy marshal and Harry's nephew. He
soon has one of the hold-up men in the jail house, but somebody
frees the man. TB 15350.
Berger, Thomas
Little big man. 2000. Read by Stuart Milligan, 19 hours 40
minutes. TB 13250.
As a 'human being', as the Cheyenne call their own, he won the
name of Little Big Man. He dressed in skins, feasted on dog, loved
four wives and saw his people butchered by the horse soldiers of
General Custer, the man he had sworn to kill. As a white man,
Crabb hunted buffalo, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill
Hickok and survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. TB 13250.
Berger, Thomas
The return of little big man. 2000. Read by Stuart Milligan, 20
hours 51 minutes. TB 13549.
Jack Crabb was one hundred and eleven years old when he
originally dictated his memoirs. His supposed death cut short his
tale just as he had finished recounting how he was the last white
survivor of Custer's Last Strand. A newly discovered manuscript,
however, reveals that Jack faked his death to get out of his
publishing contract. Now he completes the story of his
extraordinary life. As Jack writes about the gunfight at the OK
Corral and the assassination of Wild Bill Hickok, we meet, shoot,
drink and ride with dozens of ranchers, bar girls, saloon owners
and gunslingers. Contains strong language and violence. TB
13549.
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Black, Rory
Iron Eyes makes war. 2009. Read by Nils Hognestad, 3 hours
30 minutes. TB 16961.
Black horse western. The infamous bounty hunter, Iron Eyes, is
forced to chase the wanted outlaw Joe Brewster down into an arid
desert even though he has been badly wounded in a showdown
with Brewster's brothers. Losing his pony, Iron Eyes is forced to
follow on foot. To his surprise, he discovers an oasis in a valley.
Iron Eyes trails the outlaw into the valley and soon finds that a few
families are living there under threat of death by Don Miguel
Sanchez and his army of vaqueros. Will Iron Eyes leave or fight
until the bloody showdown? TB 16961.
Black, Will
Tombstone scarlet. 1996. Read by John Chancer, 3 hours 57
minutes. TB 11168.
To Wyatt Earp and his family, Tombstone was a silver-rich boom
town. To Beth Malone, whose parents were brutally murdered in
Tucson, it was an escape and a chance to become independent.
TB 11168.
Bonham, Frank
Blood on the land. Read by Hal Teeney, 7 hours 43 minutes.
TB 5987.
After months of rustling mustangs on the range, Ross Chance
returns home to find his father dead and his ranch sold to Lamar
Sheldon. Ross swears revenge against Sheldon, but he finds it
very difficult to carry out his threat after he falls in love with
Sheldon's wife. TB 5987.
Bonham, Frank
The best western stories of Frank Bonham. 1989. Read by
Errol MacKinnon, 10 hours 7 minutes. TB 8342.
A selection of the best work of Frank Bonham's western stories.
Bonham was the producer of many classic westerns such as
"Snaketrack", "Night Raid" and "Durango Kid", writing several
hundred westerns and mysteries as well as TV scripts, magazine
articles and general children's and young adults' books. TB 8342.
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Bouma, J L
Texas Spurs. 1955. Read by Derek Chandler, 5 hours 36
minutes. TB 4780.
The tough cattle drive from Texas to Colorado is over. Mark Regan
is looking forward to living in the peaceful town of Pine City. But
someone has blasted his herd and murdered his best friend. He
sets out on a rampage of vengeance and violence. TB 4780.
Bragg, W F
Ghost Mountain guns. 1983. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 4
hours 58 minutes. TB 5101.
Mike McCoy, foreman of the Big D Ghost Mountain ranch, is happy
in his job and does not normally cause any trouble. But when the
boss's daughter, pretty Adele Dalton, decides to marry someone
else, jealous Mike starts tearing the town apart. TB 5101.
Bragg, W F
Guns of Roaring Fork. 1956. Read by Stanley McGeagh, 4
hours 7 minutes. TB 5102.
"Calico" Red Sparks and Rosemary Pickett did not see eye to eye
on some things: After their first meeting Calico had found himself in
jail! Then Rose was responsible for sending him on a wild-goose
chase after a notorious bank robber and to add to his troubles, the
trail led back to the Picketts. Calico soon discovered that they were
the most trigger-happy clan to settle in the Wyoming badlands. TB
5102.
Brant, Lewis
Lawless gun. 1983. Read by Joe Dunlop, 4 hours 45 minutes.
TB 5060.
Cole Manning became an outlaw when he took the blame for a
murder committed by his foster brother. But Willard Boyce is rotten
to the core, and when Manning learns that the man for whom he
has ruined his own life is stealing from the only people he cares
about, he returns home to put matters right. TB 5060.
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Braun, Matt
The spoilers. 1985. Read by Jeff Harding, 6 hours 18 minutes.
TB 14850.
The wildest, wickedest, most dangerous city in the West. That was
San Francisco - where vice lords kept crime profitable in
Chinatown and the Barbary Coast, while corrupt politicians looked
the other way. They hadn't reckoned on Luke Starbuck, who used
his wits and guts before he got to his fast gun. Starbuck came to
rid the crime capital of California of low-lifes in high places.
Contains passages of a sexual nature and strong language. TB
14850.
Brennan, Will
Black Rock range. 1973. Read by Marvin Kane, 4 hours 34
minutes. TB 13039.
Black Rock Range was normally peaceful, but trouble came when
a dead cowboy was found lying where he had not been shot. TB
13039.
Brennan, Will
Muleshoe Range. 1972. Read by Marvin Kane, 4 hours 48
minutes. TB 13003.
Reed Castleton, cowboy, ran into nothing but trouble when he left
the Nevada desert to come up to the high meadow. TB 13003.
Brister, Richard
The shoot-out at Sentinel Peak. 1954. Read by David Sinclair,
4 hours 23 minutes. TB 4710.
Will Ruscher's apparently worthless holding has the one thing of
real value in the arid valley - a waterhole. When he is murdered for
it, quiet neighbour Cleve sets out to avenge his death. TB 4710.
Cade, Will
Larimont. 1999. Read by Tim Beckmann, 4 hours 18 minutes.
TB 13673.
John Kenton didn't want to go back home to Larimont, Colorado.
He had to - to investigate the death of his father. At first everyone
believed that Bill Kenton had died in a tragic fire... until an autopsy
revealed a bullet hole in Bill's head. But why was the local marshal
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keeping it a secret? John wasn't quite sure, so he set out to find
the truth for himself. TB 13673.
Carter, Peter
Leaving Cheyenne. 1990. Read by William Dufris, 13 hours 29
minutes. TB 10569.
In the Spring of 1871, Ben Curtis and his brother Bo are driven
from their land in Clement County, Texas. They join a cattle drive
bound for Abilene, where they run up against the tight faced
gambler, Dutch Kessel. The meeting changes Ben's life, causing
him to travel across Kansas to Dodge and finally to the open plains
on a buffalo hunt, where once again he finds himself under the
shadow of a gun. TB 10569.
Clay, Dempsey
Just breathin' hate. 2008. Read by John Chancer, 4 hours. TB
16694.
Black horse western. When the law went loco and charged him
killing his wife, innocent Jack Fallon had two choices only - run or
hang. So he ran - to a strange lost valley shut off from the world
and ruled by a cult of holy men who would prove more lethal than
any posse could ever be. Contains strong language. TB 16694.
Clay, Dempsey
Die this day. 2009. Read by William Roberts, 3 hours 53
minutes. TB 17394.
Black horse western. When their troubled town found itself yet
again without a peace officer to enforce the law, the citizens finally
on what must be done: forget the cost and risks involved and hire a
town-tamer. The famed marshal seemed to meet all their
requirements - until the day gun hell erupted again. TB 17394.
Claymaker, Dan
Buried guns. 2007. Read by John chancer, 4 hours 25
minutes. TB 15946.
Nobody rode into Mission Rock without it being known to Sheriff
Prinz. And nobody ever left - alive! The town was held in a grip of
daily terror and exploitation by the lawman and his callous
sidekicks from whom there seemed no escape. Or was there?
When a dead man's horse is mysteriously hitched outside the
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sheriff's office, an empty coffin is stolen, a bar girl plots to hide
valuable guns, and Prinz reveals his deeper motives, the town
begins to fight back. TB 15946.
Clifton, Eugene
Hideout. 2007. Read by Jay Benedict, 4 hours 30 minutes. TB
15431.
Cal Mason has a price on his head and a posse on his tail, but it
looks like his luck has changed when he makes it to Shorty
Prentice's hideout. The trouble is the old man's cabin is already
occupied and when Cal turns down an offer to join the Hinds gang
he finds he has enemies on both sides of the law. TB 15431.
Coburn, Walt
Law rides the range. 1989. Read by Christopher Scott, 6 hours
15 minutes. TB 8674.
Wade Morgan killed the town boss in a vicious gun-fight and knew
that he must make tracks - fast! What he didn't reckon with was the
terrible revenge that Bull Mitchell's renegade crew decided to take.
TB 8674.
Coburn, Walt
Drift fence. 1992. Read by Hayward Morse, 5 hours 47
minutes. TB 9847.
Brad Rutledge bragged to his few friends that he would become
the Cattle King of Montana, carve out his own private kingdom,
make his own laws, and kill any man who tried to stop him. He had
come a long way from the hard scrabble days in Texas, but always
dogging his trail, even after eight years, were the two brothers who
had sworn to kill him. It wouldn't be long before the killing started,
because, range king or not, he was marked for death. TB 9847.
Cody, Al
Trail north. 1992. Read by Steven Crossley, 4 hours 51
minutes. TB 9668.
Five years after walking out on the family, Cal McCale hears that
his brothers, the so called "Three Tough Ts" are in trouble. They
have gambled away his share of the ranch, and plan to sell the
herd in Kansas. Cal must decide who comes first: himself or his
brothers, yet, as the journey begins, there are other enemies
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waiting to attack, who want to make sure that none of the McCales
gets to Kansas alive. TB 9668.
Cole, Judd
Buffalo hiders. 1994. Read by Jeff Harding, 4 hours 33
minutes. TB 13949.
Cheyenne series, book 10. Once the buffalo blackened the plains
in uncounted numbers, providing the Cheyenne with food, clothing,
tools and skins for shelter. Then the white hunters appeared with
powerful .53 Hawken rifles and the slaughter began. Still, a few
pockets of these magnificent beasts remained and Touch the Sky
swore he would protect them. Trouble was, Cheyenne lands were
about to be invaded by two hundred veteran mountain men and
Indian killers bent on wiping out the remaining buffalo. It might
have been a fair fight, until Touch the Sky discovered the vicious
hiders had an ally - the U.S. Cavalry. TB 13949.
Cole, Judd
Bloody bones canyon and Renegade siege. 1999. Read by
Stuart Milligan, 8 hours 23 minutes. TB 13826.
Cheyenne series, book 19 and 20. Bloody bones canyon - Touch
the Sky had vowed to protect his tribe, and only he could defend
them from the warriors that threatened to take ver the camp. But
when his people needed him most, the mighty shaman was forced
by Cheyenne law to leave them to avenge a crime that defied
belief- the slaughter of their beloved peace chief, Gray Thunder.
Renegade siege - Although Touch the Sky had returned to his
father's people, he could not turn his back on the white friends who
had raised him. Touch the Sky's blood enemies had surrounded a
pioneer mining camp and were preparing to sweep down on it like
a killing wind. If the mighty shaman could not hold off the
murderous attack, the settlers would be wiped out. TB 13826.
Coleman, Jane Candia
Moving on. 1999. Read by Kath Taylor-Kemp, 9 hours 44
minutes. TB 15283.
A collection of short stories about the American West. TB 15283.
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Conley, Robert J
Incident at Buffalo crossing. 1998. Read by Tim Beckmann, 7
hours 26 minutes. TB 13787.
The sacred hill rose above the land, proud and alone, drawing men
to it like a beacon. But the men who came each had their own
reason, their own dreams. There was Zeno Bond, the settler
whose dreams were of land and empire. There was Mat Donald,
captain of the steamship 'John Hart', set to head off the looming
war between the Spanish and the Americans. And there was
Walker, the Cherokee warrior called to the Sacred Hill, hundreds of
miles from his tribe's home, by a vision he could not deny - a vision
of life, death... and destiny. Contains strong language. TB 13787.
Dailey, Janet
The pride of Hannah Wade. 1985. Read by Liza Ross, 11 hours
31 minutes. TB 8297.
In the harsh, war-torn New Mexico Territory Hannah Wade is
captured and enslaved by avenging Apaches. Only her steeledged determination keeps her alive. When at last she is rescued
her soldier husband shuns her: both he and her women friends find
her stained and disgraced. Ostracised for surviving, she fights for
her honour with the support of one man who admires her strength
and loves her spirit. TB 8297.
Dakota, Jack
Comanchero Trail. 2011. Read by Thomas Grube, 4 hours 5
minutes. TB 19188.
Black horse western. When Dean Kittredge is taken on as a hired
gun by the rafter W, the owner's wilful granddaughter, it is only the
first of his worries. He soon finds himself up against the notorious
El Serpiente and his gang of Comanchero gunmen.
Dalmas, Rick
Six for Laramie. 2009. Read by Simon Lee Phillips, 4 hours 8
minutes. TB 17179.
Black horse western. Six of them came to Laramie that early
summer: six gunfighters all hungry for money and not too fussy
about how they earned it. They all had their reasons - greed was
not a factor in every case. Bannerman, toughest and fastest, had a
special reason: one of the six had backshot a friend, and there was
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no charge for what he intended to do to that man. Even if it
disrupted the plans for the main job for which he had been hired.
And that would put him on the wrong end of the gun. Five guns. TB
17179.
deWitt, Patrick.
The Sisters brothers. 2011. Read by Stuart Milligan, 8 hours 39
minutes. TB 19029.
Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional
killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann
Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling
and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush
America. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his
way; Eli doubts his vocation and falls in love. And they bicker a lot.
Then they get to California, and discover that Warm is an inventor
who has come up with a magical formula, which could make all of
them very rich. Contains strong language and violence. TB 19029.
Dodds, Skeeter
Moon raiders. 2007. Read by James Jordan, 3 hours 19
minutes. TB 15768.
The town of Wayne Creek is a family town, but not overly
prosperous. Then Samuel Lane arrives in town with his own
enrichment in mind and change is immediately in the air. Now
Wayne Creek will become an open town if Lane gets his way. The
town might find wealth prosperous, but it would also be dangerous,
as the dregs of the West flood in. TB 15768.
Durham, Marilyn
The man who loved Cat Dancing. 1972. Read by Marvin Kane,
9 hours. TB 2111.
A dramatic and romantic Western, set in the Wyoming territory in
the 1880s. TB 2111.
Echols, Allan K
The renegade hills. 1989. Read by John Chancer, 6 hours 27
minutes. TB 8617.
Every noose-dodging renegade in the Southwest headed for that
strip of Indian Territory. Then the cattlemen hired Jim Webster to
clean out the strip. But when two U.S. Marshals and their valuable
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cargo disappeared from the wagon Webster was taking through
the badlands, people began to wonder. Whose side was the new
gun-boss on? TB 8617.
Edson, J T
The Rio Hondo War. 1964. Read by Marvin Kane, 5 hours 45
minutes. TB 3447.
How city men from the East tried unsuccessfully with the aid of
their hired gunmen, to take over the cattle country of Rio Hondo.
TB 3447.
Edson, J T
The making of a lawman. 1981. Read by Patrick Romer, 6
hours 25 minutes. TB 5435.
The last thing Waco expected was to become a deputy marshal.
When he found himself wearing the badge he soon learned that
there was more to it than walking the streets, making arrests and
pocketing a share of the fines. TB 5435.
Ernenwein, Leslie
Give a man a gun. 1989. Read by William Dufris, 4 hours 32
minutes. TB 9280.
Clee Rono rode out of Sierra Madre at noon. Behind him were ten
months of hardscrabble living in Sonora cow camps. Behind him
also was a New Mexico warrant that said "Wanted". Clee Rono "Trigger Tramp", they called him - was on his way to settle a
grudge that had been eating at him for a long time. TB 9280.
Floren, Lee
The bushwhackers, and, Ride the wild country. 1992. Read by
Christopher Scott, 11 hours 22 minutes. TB 10023
In "The Bushwhackers", Cal Sherman came to Mad Horse Basin
looking for a place to settle down after the civil war, but the basin
was on the brink of war between cattleman Mel Powers and the
sodbusters, and Cal was headed for a deadly showdown before he
knew it. In "Ride the Wild Country", the town wanted to lynch Dee
Bowden for allegedly bushwhacking his girl's father, and stealing
40,000 dollars. Out on the Prairie, every man's hand was against
him, and only his quick wits and fast gun could keep him alive. TB
10023.
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Floren, Lee
Scattergun grass, and, Double cross ranch. 1992. Read by
William Roberts, 9 hours 43 minutes. TB 10297.
In "Scattergun Grass", a blackleg fever was killing the livestock,
and everyone blamed Dan Wadsworth, the local cattle baron.
Hired to protect his property, Buck McKee and Tortilla Joe were
caught up in a deadly conflict that would explode into war if they
couldn't find who was spreading the disease. In "Double Cross
Ranch", when Judge Lemuel Bates's enemies decided to go after
his new spread, he was ready to fight, and with his partner,
Tobacco Jones, he courted a showdown that might end in the
destruction of everything he was fighting to save. TB 10297.
Floren, Lee
The rawhide men. 1988. Read by Ian Craig, 4 hours 54
minutes. TB 7876.
"But I think you're bound for trouble Will Cooper - and I'm going
with you to trouble." Will Cooper rescues Jennie Clark after her
team run away. There is a strong attraction between them.
However, Smith Clark, a man soured with whisky as the Arizona
land is soured with black and white alkali, is a threat to Will and to
the Hatcher herd of cattle. Fred Hashell, a man twisted in his greed
also threatens the livelihoods of Will and his mother. TB 7876.
Gardner, Jerome
The bounty scalper. 1983. Read by Ian Craig, 3 hours 32
minutes. TB 5336.
To Grover Clayburn, earning big bounty money seems more
attractive than being a cowhand. His first attempt at it, however,
ends in disaster. Then Betsy Anne Honnegar, the hardest saloon
woman in Panhandle, picks out a faded old killer due for release
from prison. Even Grover Clayburn could hardly miss earning scalp
money on him. TB 5336.
Gardner, Jerome
Medicine show doc. 1983. Read by Ian Craig, 3 hours 45
minutes. TB 4823.
Hen Cooper and Slim Eastman were two ambitious cowhands who
planned on becoming "bankers". But they reckoned without the
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true grit of the bank detective in Kizerville and the unholy tenacity
of the Dutch marshal who followed them out of that Texas town
and clear to Indian territory on a trail of death and vengeance. TB
4823.
Gordon, Dan
Wyatt Earp: a novel: based on the screen play by Dan Gordon
and Lawrence Kasdan. 1994. Read by Garrick Hogan, 8 hours
39 minutes. TB 10262.
In the 1880s a vast western frontier was opening up in America.
Wyatt Earp and his brothers were pioneers, heading out to make
their fortunes, but somewhere life changed them and their
principles and desires became different. Wyatt Earp, a lawman
who'd earned respect, became a man whose name inspired fear
and hatred. Was he a hero or a man obsessed with vengeance?
Did he make the West safe for those to follow, or was he carrying
out his own brand of frontier vendetta justice? His story has
become a legend, but behind the shadow was a man whose life
paralleled a nation's changes and the end of a way of life. TB
10262.
Graham, Dale
Bluecoat renegade. 2007. Read by John Chancer, 4 hours 40
minutes. TB 15657.
Envy of a fellow officer based at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas is
eating away at Lieutenant Chadwick Stanton. This combined with
an insatiable urge to pursue a lifestyle he can ill afford, sets the
scene for a sequence of events that would have devastating
repercussions. TB 15657.
Gray, Steven
Renegade range. 1993. Read by Steven Crossley, 4 hours 14
minutes. TB 10321.
Jarrod Kilkline, ex-confederate soldier is on the run for the shooting
of a union soldier and a number of stage coach robberies, not to
mention a bounty hunter. When he escapes from jail his troubles
really begin. He is captured by Harry Phillips and the Apaches he
is running guns for, along with a Yankee lieutenant he is reluctantly
helping. The Indians are also holding a white girl. Can Jarrod save
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them all from torture and death and will he then have seen the last
of the army and the bounty hunter? TB 10321.
Gray, Steven
Flight from Felicidad. 2007. Read by John Chancer, 4 hours 10
minutes. TB 15623.
Old Man Hennessey has been found guilty of murder and is in the
Felicidad jail awaiting the hangman. When he is broken out by
Frank and Jack O'Connor who want his help in carrying out a
robbery, he is determined to seek revenge on the town. So he
kidnaps Thora Dowling, the marshal's fiancee and Lizzie, a
prostitute, the two girls he blames for his downfall. Contains strong
language. TB 15623.
Grey, Zane
Riders of the purple sage. 1949. Read by Marvin Kane, 11
hours 50 minutes. TB 772.
An American romance, set in the South-West in the days of gun
fighting, rough living and hard riding. TB 772.
Grey, Zane
Nevada. 1928. Read by David Bauer, 9 hours. TB 1852.
An exciting Western in which Nevada, cowboy, rides out in search
of love and adventure. TB 1852.
Grey, Zane
The lone star rangers. 1986. Read by John Shedden, 8 hours
30 minutes. TB 8898.
Forced to flee from his home after a shoot-out with a drunken
cowboy, Buck Duane cuts a bloody trail across Texas. An
increasingly desperate outlaw, ever-hunted by the phantoms of the
men he killed, he has one last chance to win a pardon and
freedom - by single-handedly destroying the largest, most
dangerous gang of rustlers and bank robbers in the Texas
Badlands: a gang led by the father of the woman he loves! TB
8898.
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Grey, Zane
The kidnapping of Collie Younger, and, The outlaws of
Palouse. 1992. Read by Hayward Morse, 6 hours 9 minutes.
TB 9957.
The kidnapping of Collie Younger: When Rod Brecken kidnaps the
prettiest and most shameless flirt who ever drove a cowboy crazy,
it is just the lesson she needs; but Rod may have bitten off more
than he can chew when some real cowboys come gunning for
them. The outlaws of Palouse: Dale Brittenham is on the trail of
some horse thieves, but didn't reckon on being framed for the
rustling himself. Now he's got to bring them to justice before the
angry ranchers string him up. TB 9957.
Grey, Zane
Last of the Duanes: a western story. 1996. Read by William
Dufris, 9 hours 50 minutes. TB 11356.
Buckley Duane's father was a gunfighter who died by the gun. In
accepting a drunken bully's challenge, Duane himself is involved in
a gun play through which he becomes outlawed. It is in an outlaw
camp that he meets Jennie Lee, a girl who is held prisoner, and he
plots her escape. TB 11356.
Grey, Zane
The rainbow trail. 2006. Read by William Roberts, 11 hours 13
minutes. TB 18964.
Learning that a gunfighter and two women, including the girl he
loves, may be trapped in a hidden Utah valley, wanderer Shefford
begins an obsessive search through the wild desert in the hopes of
winning Fay's heart. TB 18964.
Grove, Fred
Bitter trumpet. 1999. Read by Garrick Hagon, 9 hours 51
minutes. TB 13117.
A Civil War veteran travels West to rebuild his life, only to find
himself embroiled in a conflict between the Mexican peasants and
the trained mercenaries of Emperor Maximilian. TB 13117.
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Guthrie, A B
The big sky. 2002. Read by William Roberts, 16 hours 5
minutes. TB 17532.
This book is the first of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.'s, epic adventure novels
of America's vast frontier. It introduces Boone Caudill, Jim
Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable
characters in Western American literature. Contains strong
language. TB 17532
Guthrie, Alfred Bertram
Trouble at Moon Dance. 1961. Read by David Bauer, 7 hours
15 minutes. TB 1758.
When rancher West buckled on his guns to face a renegade never
beaten on the draw, the fate of Moon Dance hung on the bulletspattered outcome. TB 1758.
Hall, Billy
The ten sleep murders. 1996. Read by John Chancer, 4 hours
39 minutes. TB 11263.
Detective Levi Hill had faced death many times. But something
about the Ten Sleep murders seemed ominous - a warning of his
own impending doom. He faced an impossible decision: uphold the
law, or rescue the only woman he had ever loved. Whatever he
did, he would probably die. TB 11263.
Harrison, Jim
Dalva. 1989. Read by Liza Ross and Garrick Hagon, 13 hours
57 minutes. TB 8001.
In her middle teens Dalva bears an illegitimate son who is given
away for adoption. 30 years later her desire to find him becomes
unbearable, and Dalva starts to search for him. The journals of
Dalva's ancestor tell of the turmoils and anguish of the Indians as
the white man enters their territory 100 years before. TB 8001.
Harvey, John B
California blood lines. 1981. Read by Ian Craig, 4 hours 42
minutes. TB 4799.
Wes Hart has just disposed of a killer out west in California when
he gets the wire from Fowler: help is needed in hunting down the
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runaway son of a rich lady and Wes can always be counted upon
to supply some extra muscle. TB 4799.
Hawkins, Doug
Kit Carson: blood rendezvous. 1999. Read by John Chancer, 4
hours 55 minutes. TB 13270.
Kit Carson series, book 6. The high point of any trapper's year
was the summer rendezvous, the annual gathering where
mountain men from all over the frontier met to trade the pelts they
had risked their lives for. But for Kit Carson, the real danger lay in
getting to the rendezvous. He was leading a party of trappers, all of
them weighed down with a year's worth of furs. That was enough
to make them a tempting target for any killer on the trail especially when the trail led through Blackfoot territory. TB 13270.
Hawkins, Paul A
The seekers. 1994. Read by Peter Brooke, 13 hours 11
minutes. TB 14849.
Kidnapped by Indians when she was little more than a girl,
Katherine Coltrane became the wife of a warrior. Rescued by
bluecoats years later, she was forced to leave her infant daughter
behind. She became a woman alone in a violent world of men.
Surviving by her iron will and silken flesh, she carved out a vast
cattle kingdom and defended it in range wars that swept Wyoming
territory like wildfire. She found men who matched her strength and
passion, men who loved her or feared her, but could never tame
her pride and independence. Yet Kate never stopped the search
for her child - in a quest that had to bridge the gap between
Indians and whites on a frontier split by savage struggle. Contains
strong language. TB 14849.
Haycox, Ernest
New Hope. 2000. Read by David Weatherley, 10 hours 42
minutes. TB 15284.
In this western the author combines four short stories about New
Hope, a freighting town on the Missouri River. TB 15284.
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Hayes, Steve
A coffin for Santa Rosa. 2009. Read by Jay Benedict, 4 hours
5 minutes. TB 17331.
Black horse western. Dying of typhoid fever, Ingrid Bjorkman asks
Gabriel Moonlight to bury her beside her late husband in Santa
Rosa. Knowing he's an outlaw with a rope awaiting him in New
Mexico, she makes him promise to hire a Pinkerton to escort the
coffin. But Gabriel loves her too much to let anyone else handle
the burial and accompanied by her rebellious teenage daughter,
Raven, he takes the coffin to Ingrid's former farm where her
husband is buried. But the shadow of the rope looms over Gabriel.
Faced with betrayal, can he escape with his life? TB 17331.
Henry, Will
Alias Butch Cassidy. 1999. Read by John Chancer, 6 hours 30
minutes. TB 13272.
No one made a more unlikely outlaw than young George LeRoy
Parker, grandson of a Mormon bishop. But at sixteen, Parker threw
in with Mike Cassidy, a shrewd old bandit who saw something in
the boy nobody else did - the courage of a cougar and the heart of
a renegade. Old Mike taught the kid everything he knew, and
before he was done there was no outlaw more feared, hunted, or
idolized than George LeRoy Parker... TB 13272.
Hoffman, Lee
The Valdez horses. 1996. Read by Jack Roberts, 5 hours 8
minutes. TB 11428.
Almost from the moment he stumbled on the Valdez ranch,
runaway Jamie Wagner had dreamed of owning one of the
beautiful Valdez horses. Though he was withdrawn, a devil when
drunk, everyone respected Chino Valdez's ability as a horseman.
Jamie quickly sensed the quality and strength of Valdez, and also
learned that there was no controlling his love for the Stanhope
woman, a love that drove him to tragic desperation. Was even a
Valdez horse worth the grim price? TB 11428.
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Hogan, Ray
Lead reckoning. 1989. Read by Ian Craig, 4 hours 13 minutes.
TB 8015.
Jim Strike finds his ideal valley on the borders of the United States
and Mexico. He plans to build a ranch with his friend Arlie
Silvershell and his Angelina - she is a Mexican and resents the
American. She starts a campaign of terror against him and his
cattle involving ambushes, fighting and murder. This is a novel
about the rivalries of two communities. TB 8015.
Howard, Lance
Wanted. 1996. Read by William Dufris, 4 hours 22 minutes. TB
10909.
Duel Winston, bounty hunter, was tired of the trail. He decided on
the final bounty of his career before calling it quits and returning to
the woman he loved. But things didn't go quite as he planned when
he found himself in a battle with a ruthless killer. TB 10909.
Hunter, Ed
Bounty blood. 1996. Read by William Roberts, 3 hours 41
minutes. TB 11318.
When outlaw gang boss Frank Burton wrecks Catwick's business
and tries to kill him, he makes a big mistake. Catwick is not the
type to take kindly to bullying treatment from any man. But
practically penniless and in new territory, his run of bad luck isn't
over yet. Mistaken for one of the outlaws, he is arrested and
slammed into jail. Contains violence. TB 11318.
Hunter, Ed
Double D showdown. 1993. Read by Jon Cartwright, 3 hours
25 minutes. TB 10029.
Zach sensed there was trouble, but he only knew how bad it was
when he ran foul of Bronco Parks, foreman of the Double D, whose
owner, Dan Dawson was making offers that few could refuse if
they wanted to stay alive. It didn't take a genius to know why the
small timers were moving out. The sheriff had been murdered, his
deputies scared off and nobody wanted to be lawman until Zach
pinned on the tin star, recruited his own deputies and made it his
task to right the wrongs. TB 10029.
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Irons, Owen G
The way station. 2011. Read by Michael FitzPatrick, 3 hours 35
minutes. TB 19321.
Black horse western. Cameron Black knows that it is time to pack
away his guns. He and Virginia need to put their past behind them
and when Cameron accepts a job running a quiet way station in
the desert, it seems like the perfect way to forget old enemies. But
Cameron soon realises it is never that easy to leave trouble
behind. TB 19321.
Irwin, Alan
Marshal of Borado. 1996. Read by Alan Irwin, 3 hours 44
minutes. TB 11055.
Former lawman Jim Darrell was on the trail of the man who had
murdered his deputy. Waiting in Borado for his quarry, he took the
town marshal's job and soon crossed swords with rancher Jesse
Randle. Jesse wasn't the only problem - Jim faced attempts on his
own life. The shootouts were coming thick and fast, and Jim would
need all his skill to overcome the odds. TB 11055.
Irwin, Alan
The Laredo gang. 2007. Read by John Chancer, 3 hours 40
minutes. TB 15402.
When ex-deputy US marshal Jack Tracy returns to the Box T
Ranch in Colorado after a lengthy absence, he arrives just after his
parents and brother have been murdered by the infamous Laredo
gang. TB 15402.
Kelton, Elmer
The way of the coyote. 2001. Read by Merv Smith, 7 hours 58
minutes. TB 15275.
Texas Rangers series; book 3. The Civil War has ended and
Texas is in turmoil as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the
Colorado River. He finds the land overrun with outlaws, vengeful
Union soldiers and bands of Comanche. It's not the homecoming
he expected. TB 15275.
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Kennedy, D F
The preacher. 1983. Read by Gwen Cherrell, 4 hours 2
minutes. TB 6496.
A "Spaghetti western" in which one rather reserved man makes his
mark on a small, closely-knit town community. TB 6496.
Kennedy, Sean
Savidge. 2010. Read by William Roberts, 4 hours 4 minutes.
TB 18618.
Black horse western. Joe Savidge has revenge in his heart. But
having been beaten to within an inch of his life following some dirty
dealings in a lawless small town, he ends up in Pioche, Nevada,
with little more than the shirt on his back - to say nothing of the
tools required to make revenge a reality. Then he meets a woman
who is down on her luck - just like him, but with a lucrative
connection to a mysterious Frenchman. For Savidge, playing along
means the opportunity to purchase guns and horses: necessities
for a man hell-bent on retribution. After that, all Savidge has to do
is lie in wait for destiny to arrive. TB 18618.
Kinsella, W P
The moccasin telegraph and other stories. 1994. Read by
Garrick Hagon, 1 hour 39 minutes. TB 10537.
The stories are told through Silas Ermineskin, teenage scribe of
the Ermineskin Indian Reserve in western Canada. Even if Silas
doesn't always invent trouble, he sure knows how to find it and, in
those rare cases where he can't, he can count on his friends, his
girlfriend, his best buddy and the medicine woman to find out for
him. The stories are wise, touching and funny. Contains strong
language. TB 10537.
Kirby, Hank J
Montana manhunt. 2008. Read by Peter Brooke, 3 hours 47
minutes. TB 16246.
They stole Rush Bonner's horse and left him afoot in mighty wild
country. But Bonner was tough: he recovered his mount and left
the thieving rider for the coyotes. But it caused him more trouble
than he could shake a stick at. First, there was the head wound
and the jail cell. Then the escape - with a dead sheriff left in his
office, and ten thousand dollars missing. And the posse who
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hunted him were given orders: 'Take him, dead or alive - preferably
dead.' He surely wished he'd stayed in Texas! TB 16246.
Ladd, Justin
The pursuers. 1990. Read by Adam Henderson, 6 hours 20
minutes. TB 9852.
When Jake Walsh and his gang held up a train outside Abilene, a
wave of violence began. Marshal Luke Travis had to fight off a
deadly ambush that left him wounded and Walsh kidnapped the
beautiful Dorothea Stockbridge and demanded her father's
strongbox packed with fifty grand as ransom. TB 9852.
L'Amour, Louis
The outlaws of Mesquite. 1990. Read by Errol MacKinnon, 6
hours 55 minutes. TB 9324.
8 vintage stories of the frontier, alive with the misdeeds of classic
frontier badmen and the men and women who dared to challenge
them. Each story is preceded by a note conveying a relevant piece
of western history and lore to enhance the reading experience. TB
9324.
L'Amour, Louis
Sackett's land. 2004. Read by John Curless, 5 hours 13
minutes. TB 13765.
Sackett series; book 1. Son of a feared fighting man, Barnabas
Sackett inherited his father's fiery temper, sense of justice and
warrior skills. Declared an outlaw in his native England, Barnabas
set his daring sights on the opportunities of the New World. The
ruthless piracy of the open seas and the unknown dangers of the
savage American wilderness lay before him. And so did the thrill of
discovery and the chance to establish a bold new future if he
survived. TB 13765.
Lee, Wayne C
Suicide trail. 1989. Read by Robert Ashby, 3 hours 50 minutes.
TB 8169.
The trail to the gold fields of California was full of dangers and
disasters. Everyone knew that driving horses through Indian
territory was suicide, but with the help of gold hungry prospectors
and a pack of dogs, Brent had to get those horses through to
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California; and neither Oker Patzel nor Indian raiders were going to
stop him ... TB 8169.
Leishman, A Dorman
Creeback. 2010. Read by Stuart Milligan, 5 hours 10 minutes.
TB 18003.
When former soldier Jim Rennie finds a dead body at the bottom of
Sandy Creek, he realises that his quiet life in Creeback valley is
over. Reluctantly, he begins to investigate. The dead boy was not
one of the settlers nor a cattleman; nor was he part of their bitter
land dispute. Nevertheless, Rennie suspects that the boy's death
is central to the feud. Settlers homes are being burned and Tom
Rutherford, the man responsible, seems too powerful to be
stopped. But Jim Rennie knows he must find a way. TB 18003.
Leonard, Elmore
The complete Western stories of Elmore Leonard. 2007. Read
by Jeff Harding, 21 hours 14 minutes. TB 16172.
Long, Elliot
Killer on the loose. 2007. Read by Peter Brooke, 3 hours 28
minutes. TB 15171.
For 1000 dollars Harvey Munson undertook to deliver 50,000
dollars to Garfield Creek City Bank. However, the thief who waylaid
him didn't know he was tangling with a wild cat and died as a
result. Then, back in his hometown of Turlock, Harvey had another
shock for Sheriff Grant Watson, his surrogate father, was
ambushed and murdered. On top of that, Harvey was accused of
murder and jailed pending trial. Soon guns roared and blood
flowed with an outcome that was by no means certain. Contains
strong language. TB 15171.
Long, Elliot
Scar county showdown. 2011. Read by Thomas Grube, 4
hours 9 minutes. TB 18882.
When town marshal Arthur Curry is gunned down from behind by
killers unknown, his brother Sam comes to Columbus to pay his
last respects and to seek vengence against those who have
wronged his family so grievously. The mayor of Columbus has an
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idea of who is responsible for the crime, but Sam is determined to
come to his own conclusions. Contains strong language. TB 1882.
Lundgren, Wolf
Battle at Gun Barrel Canyon. 2011. Read by Mark Holden, 3
hours 47 minutes. TB 19159.
Black horse western. There is only one law in Gunbarrel Valley out
in the wilds of Montana - the law of the gun. Old frontiersman,
Joshua Vincent, is incensed that his fence wire is being cut and his
stock rustled. Chief suspect is his neighbour, the young rancher,
Matthew Saunders. So, he sends assassins to kill him and range
war threatens to erupt. TB 19159.
McBride, Andrew
Death song. 1997. Read by Adam Henderson, 3 hours 59
minutes. TB 11120.
Two men driven by hatred: Lieutenant Ranald Neal of the US
Cavalry, seeking to be the man who ended the Indian Wars, and
Sombra the Apache war chief, bent on revenge. Caught in the
middle was the white woman who had been the Apache's captive,
and whose yellow hair gave Sombra luck in battle. Then, too, there
was the formidable Calvin Taylor, Indian scout, hired gun and man
killer. TB 11120.
McCarthy, Cormac
All the pretty horses. 2010. Read by William Roberts, 11 hours
5 minutes. TB 19291.
The Border trilogy; book 1. This is the story of John Grady Cole,
who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas
ranchers. He escapes to Mexico with friends, but what begins as a
comic adventure, leads to a place where dreams are paid for in
blood. TB 19291.
McCarthy, Gary
Blood brothers. 1999. Read by Mac McDonald, 5 hours. TB
13381.
Ben Pope and Rick Kilbane are as different as night and day. A
miner's son, Ben is an awkward, earnest kid with no money and
lots of hard luck. Rick is the wild, troublemaking son of Ulysses
Kilbane, a professional gambler and the fastest gun on Nevada's
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Comstock Lode. Ben and Rick have always been best friends and
blood brothers. That may all change now that Ben has pinned on a
sheriff's badge. That tin star has set the blood brothers down the
road to the ultimate showdown - a final test of friendship and
loyalty. TB 13381.
McCormac, P
Paths of death. 2008. Read by Nils Hognestad, 4 hours 58
minutes. TB 16929.
Black horse western. He had done with killing. That was all in the
past. Now he was a peaceful dirt farmer. But the Lazy K did not
take to sodbusters. The Kerfoots owned the range; they owned the
law. Zacchaeus Wolfe and his little farm did not fit into their plans.
Arrogant and used to getting their own way the Kerfoot family
began to push Zacchaeus. There were five brothers, old man
Barrett Kerfoot himself and a full complement of cowboys to back
them up. Now they would find out the hard way what it was to have
a curly wolf by the tail. TB 16929.
McGraw, Joseph John
Silveroo. 2008. Read by Peter Brooke, 3 hours 39 minutes. TB
16655.
Daco Ward is a drifter with just seventy cents in his pants' pocket
when Bill Dodds offers him a job. But Dodds has a way of making
enemies. He bests Tucker Lankton at cards and Lankton, backed
by his sidekick Ed Crants, vows to get even. And Daco too didn't
like the feeling that Dodds had made a fool of him. A man couldn't
walk away from such things. He had a score to settle. Now Daco
would find himself in the middle of a deadly game of deceit and
murder; the prize being the riches of Silveroo. TB 16655.
McMasters, Jake
Hangman's knot and Warpath. 1997. Read by Jeff Harding, 10
hours 30 minutes. TB 13674.
White Apache series; book 1 and 2. Hangman's knot - Taggart
was strung up and left to die by a posse headed by the richest man
in the territory. Cut down by a band of Apaches, the warriors
debated whether to kill him or ransom him off, and decided he
would be worth more alive. Before long the white desperado and
the desperate Apaches had formed an unholy alliance that would
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turn the Arizona desert red with blood. Warpath - Taggard was an
outcast who seeks revenge with his renegade warriors. One by
one, he'd hunt the yellowbellies down, make them wish they'd
never drawn a breath, leave their bones scorching under the brutal
desert sun. Contains violence. TB 13674.
McMurtry, Larry
Zeke and Ned. 1997. Read by Vincent Marzallo, 18 hours 10
minutes. TB 13545.
Set in the Cherokee Districts of the Oklahoma Territory, not long
after the end of the Civil War, this is the story of Ezekiel Proctor
and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors, living men whose
story is not merely legend, but history; their fates a consequence of
brutal policies. Contains passages of a sexual nature. TB 13545.
McMurtry, Larry
Lonesome Dove. 1990. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick, 36 hours
56 minutes. TB 16797.
This is a story of heroism, love, honour, loyalty and betrayal,
reaching from the office of the Hat Creek Cattle Company of the
Rio Grande to the heart and the wilderness of the American West.
Contains violence. TB 16797.
McMurtry, Larry
Dead man's walk: a novel. 1996. Read by Michael FitzPatrick,
17 hours 14 minutes. TB 18921.
Lonesome Dove prequel. Dead Man's Walk sees Woodrow and
Gus, not yet 20, join forces with the land pirate Caleb Cobb. In a
fool-hardy attempt to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans, they
experience their first great adventure. TB 18921.
MacDonald, William Colt
Action at Arcanum: a Gregory Quist story. 1961. Read by
David Bauer, 6 hours 10 minutes. TB 1673.
Gregory Quist, special investigator in Texas and Arizona,
outsmarts his worse enemies. TB 1673.
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MacLean, Alistair
Breakheart Pass. 1974. Read by Marvin Kane, 5 hours 30
minutes. TB 2500.
Set in Nevada in 1873 where a crowded troop train is waylaid by
Paiute Indians with tragic but surprising results. TB 2500.
Manning, Jason
High country. 1993. Read by Jeff Harding, 10 hours 4 minutes.
TB 14851.
High country series; book 1. In 1825 Zach Hannah was a raw
youth when he left the hill country of Tennessee to seek his fortune
in the West. The mad demand for beaver pelts spawned a
booming fur trade that sent men to battle against the fury of nature,
hostile Indian tribes, and sense each other in an adventure that
only the strongest could survive. Zach Hannah took the challenge
to learn the ways of the wild and those who lived in it to discover
that white treachery could be as deadly as Blackfoot terror and to
find passionate love with a beautiful Indian woman and a fight to
the death to protect her. TB 14851.
Manning, Jason
Green river rendezvous. 1993. Read by Mac McDonald, 8
hours 14 minutes. TB 15070.
High country series; book 2. Zac Hannah was a legend of
courage, skill, and strength. To the Crow Indians he was a
favoured friend, to the Blackfeet he was a hated foe, to former
friend Sean Devlin he was a rival to be destroyed, and to the
American Fur Company he stood tall in the way of their scheme to
rob the Rockies of their fabulous wealth in pelts. With his beloved
wife Morning Sky at his side, hard bitten team under his command,
a Hawken rifle and a hunting knife in his hands, and treacherous
enemies shadowing his native tribe in the West and the most brutal
brigade of trappers ever to make the high country a killing ground.
TB 15070.
Manning, Jason
Battle of the Teton Basin. 1994. Read by Mac McDonald, 8
hours 21 minutes. TB 15193.
High country series; book 3. Zach Hannah wants to be left alone
high in the mountains with his Indian bride, but as long as Sean
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Devlin lives, Zach can find no peace. Zach must track down Devlin,
the former friend who stole his wife and left him to die at the hands
of the Blackfeet. It is an odyssey of vengeance that will lead him
from the Yellowstone to St. Louis along the Santa Fe Trail, and
back to the high country - where the mountains echo with the
gunfire and blood cries of a cataclysmic war. As mountain men and
Blackfoot braves clash in an epic battle that will change the course
of history in the American West, Zach and Devlin square off in a
final reckoning...that only one of them will survive. TB 15193.
Martin, Chuck
The Lobo breed. 1989. Read by David Oliver, 5 hours 39
minutes. TB 8780.
A fortune in stolen gold was cached on the Triangle D. But the trail
was blazed with every man who touched it! Now Jeff and "Gospel"
Cummings, the whisky-drinking, bible-quoting old gunslinger, were
set for vengeance. And at trail's end Jeff found all hell broke loose.
TB 8780.
Martin, Jack
Arkansas Smith. 2010. Read by Jeff Harding, 4 hours 12
minutes. TB 17623.
Arkansas Smith: the name was legend. Once he had been a Texas
Ranger, but now he was something else entirely. Some said he
was an outlaw, a killer of men and a fast draw. Others claimed he
was a kind of special lawman, dispensing frontier justice across the
West and bringing law to the lawless. Arkansas Smith arrives in
Red Rock looking for those who shot and left his friend for dead.
He vows to leave no stone unturned in his quest to bring the
gunmen to justice and, soon, those who go against him must face
the legendary fast draw that helped tame the West. TB 17623.
Mitchell, Greg
Murdering Wells. 2010. Read by Simon Lee Phillips, 3 hours
44 minutes. TB 17741.
Black horse western. When a military deserter robs a mail
contractor and leaves him to the mercy of Apache raiders in a
remote corner of Arizona, the contractor's brother, Luke Adison,
vows to track down those responsible. Soon, the tables turn,
however, as Luke is captured by the deserters. Will he manage to
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escape and avenge his brother, or will he learn the true secret
behind the sinisterly named Murdering Wells? TB 17741.
Nash, Clayton
Trail wolves. 2006. Read by John Chancer, 4 hours 37
minutes. TB 16361.
On the last day of the war, Davis was looking forward to some
peace. However, Bradford had other ideas. Together they had
captured a Yankee wagon full of guns - and Davis knew the way to
Mexico, where rebels were paying high prices for weapons. Davis
only wanted to get back to his ranch in the Big Bend country and
Bradford only wanted to stop him, as did the Yankees, the Mexican
rebels and government troops. Davis would have no choice but to
take them all on as they came. TB 16361.
O'Conner, Clint
Dead Man's Range. 1965. Read by Marvin Kane, 4 hours 45
minutes. TB 396.
Benedict's determination to drive his cattle trail through the territory
of a beautiful ruthless girl ends in bloodshed and disaster. TB 396.
O'Keefe, Chap
Sons and gunslicks. 2007. Read by Kenneth Jay, 3 hours 56
minutes. TB 15453.
Where was Emily Greatheart? The pretty young lady from Denver
who had gone to Arizona to meet her dead fiance's mother had
vanished. Only a bloodstained jacket was found in an abandoned
spring buggy hired from the Pike's Crossing livery stable. Contains
strong language. TB 15453.
Parnham, I J
Railroad to redemption. 2010. Read by Eric Meyers, 4 hours 6
minutes. TB 18164.
The influx of railroad men looking to build a new track to
Redemption brings plenty of trouble for Sheriff Cassidy Yates.
However, things seem to be looking up when Dayton Fisher, down
on his luck and looking for work, arrives in town. Can the two men
put aside their differences for long enough to defeat the
gunslingers? TB 18164.
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Patten, Lewis B
Six ways of dying. 1996. Read by Garrick Hagon, 4 hours 44
minutes. TB 10930.
The trouble started when Guy Doniphan decided to move to
Colorado and set up Square D ranch. His wife hated the new
country from the start and her hatred was soon justified when she
was brutally raped by some Indians and lost her unborn child.
Then the Roan Creek cattle were driven onto Square D rangeland,
presenting a challenge that had to be answered. Guy and his elder
son Floyd tried to find a peaceful solution but Cashman, brought
up in the wake of his mother's bitterness, had other ideas. Bloody
violence followed and the family torn apart. There was bitter death
and tragic loss before peace was restored. TB 10930.
Portis, Charles
True grit: a novel. 1969. Read by Simon Coady, 5 hours 24
minutes. TB 5259.
Mattie Ross is only fourteen when a coward called Tom Chaney
guns her Papa down in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Being the eldest of
the family and a girl of true grit she sets off to avenge her father's
blood, outsmarting the hard-bitten men of the Wild West with her
quick wit, her sharp tongue and her unflinching courage. TB 5259.
Proulx, Annie
Close range: Brokeback mountain and other stories. 2006.
Read by Peter Brooke, 8 hours 18 minutes. TB 15355.
This book contains several short stories including Brokeback
mountain. Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild
landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for
generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist
and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands glad to have found each
other's company where none had been expected. But
companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain,
something not looked for, something deadly. Contains strong
language. TB 15355.
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Remington, Henry
Morgan's war. 2007. Read by Jay Benedict, 3 hours 27
minutes. TB 16780.
On the slopes of the volcano lay the mines of Matarote and Mike
Morgan would reap a lucrative contract if his railroad company
could be first to lay track to them up from the Mexican coast. But
he was little prepared for the dirty tricks of a rival outfit. When his
workers were murdered, his tunnel destroyed and a locomotive
blown sky high, he knew he had a war on his hands. TB 16780.
Roberts, Dan
Wyoming showdown. 1989. Read by John Chancer, 4 hours 35
minutes. TB 9034.
Jim Mason had been a Missouri sheriff for five years. But when his
brother was killed in a bank raid Jim turned in his badge in a lust
for revenge, and set out to even the score, wherever the
vengeance trail might lead him. TB 9034.
Rushgrove, Ted
Doc Dryden, gunslinger. 2010. Read by Michael Fitzpatrick, 3
hours 4 minutes. TB 17794.
Clay Dryden, a member of the band of outlaws known as the
Sankey gang is challenged to a gunfight by the brother of the gang
leader and kills him. But Sankey soon discovers that his brother
hadn't any bullets in his revolver so he vows to avenge his
brother's death. When Sankey catches up with Clay in the town of
Crossville, he discovers that the former outlaw has set up a
medical practice. But will the gang leader spare him? With the
odds stacked against him, Clay's future as the town's doctor hangs
very much in the balance. TB 17794.
Ryder, J D
The Short Creek rustlers. 2009. Read by Nils Hognestad, 4
hours 28 minutes. TB 16896.
Someone is rustling livestock from two of the largest cattle
operations in the Short Creek basin and everyone is busy pointing
the finger at his neighbour. Elias Fagan, a drifting cowboy with
experience working with the law, has agreed to look into the
situation and quickly finds himself caught smack dab in the middle.
It's swiftly made clear that catching the rustlers won't be easy.
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Nobody is supposed to know anything about Fagan but before he
even reaches Short Creek someone tries to ambush him. Then in
town no more than an hour, he is savagely beaten. To add to his
troubles outlaw members of the old Hole-in-the-Wall gang turn up
and recognise him. Maybe, he realises, there is more going on
than just cattle theft. TB 16896.
Savage, Lee
Coffin gap. 2000. Read by John Chancer, 7 hours 25 minutes.
TB 13271.
When Alan Craig's father was shot years ago, there had been no
doctor in Coffin Gap to help him. Now Alan has returned with his
medical degree to what has become a thriving town. But Jada
MacQueen's hydraulic mining has polluted all the lowland
waterways and killed parts of the range. Alan's efforts to help are
hampered by the two most powerful players in the town,
MacQueen and Bowie French. French was once Alan's best friend,
and is the abusive husband of Alan's former love, Nola. Alan has
many challenges to overcome in his hometown. TB 13271.
Shields, Bill
The Snake River bounty. 2011. Read by Stuart Milligan, 3
hours 30 minutes. TB 18701.
As a young man, Ben Hollinger hunted down and killed the outlaw
gang who murdered his family. He now lives a very different life as
the marshal of a sleepy cattle town. But his hopes for a peaceful
future are shattered when he kills a young troublemaker who has
forced him into a gun fight. The boy's father, Nate Thornton, owns
the biggest ranch in the territory and he puts a bounty on
Hollinger's head. Violence sweeps the town as every local gunhand tries to hunt Hollinger down to claim Thornton's ransom. His
only hope for survival is an alliance with the rancher's daughter,
Cordelia, but will she really be prepared to side with the man who
killed her brother? TB 18701.
Shirreffs, Gordon D
The ghost dancers. 1986. Read by John Chancer, 12 hours 18
minutes. TB 14342.
The raiders, a notorious band of Mexican outlaws looked and killed
just like Apaches, hunted scalps for bounty, unaware that their
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deadly spree had earned them a powerful enemy. An admirer of
the Apaches, Major Alec Kershaw wasn't about to see them
annihilated. Prepared to battle to the death, Kershaw won two
unlikely allies: Baishan, a chieftain with magical ways, and Anne
Sinclair, the beautiful settler who'd stolen his heart. In the final
showdown, Alec had nothing but a steady gun to protect him and a
sure hand to guide him. Contains violence. TB 14342.
Shrake, Edwin
Blessed McGill. 1969. Read by Marvin Kane, 9 hours 44
minutes. TB 944.
The story of a Westerner who became a legend; his life full of
adventure, horrible cruelty, bloodshed, and moments of
tenderness, told by himself. TB 944.
Smith, Wade
Big cactus. 1957. Read by David Bauer, 5 hours 3 minutes. TB
648.
Wild West Club series. A thrilling Western which starts with the
trouble caused by Lingo's interference when Dog-Leg Davis tries
to insist on Miss Stoddart's accompanying him to Big Cactus. TB
648.
Smith, William Fielding
The chronicle of the "Diamond Six. 1960. Read by Stephen
Jack, 7 hours 59 minutes. TB 1746.
An adventure story, based on fact, of a hard-riding, fast-shooting
Texan cattle farmer during the American civil war. TB 1746.
Steele, Tex
Vengeance spur. 1989. Read by Steve Hodson, 4 hours 28
minutes. TB 8577.
On his return to Sweet Spring, Lee Warren found the town had not
changed much. But he had. What was surprising was that against
all advice Lee should have come back to settle with the men who
had been responsible for his downfall. TB 8577.
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Stevens, Steve
Storm in Montana. 1975. Read by Marvin Kane, 4 hours 1
minute. TB 13026.
Storm and Dancer are in pursuit of a killer outlaw when they
become involved in the strangest showdown they ever faced. TB
13026.
Stevens, Steve
Storm in Wyoming. 1975. Read by Peter Marinker, 4 hours 7
minutes. TB 13025.
The foreman of the Diamond outfit calls in Jack Storm to find out if
one of his cowhands is in reality a notorious outlaw leader. TB
13025.
Sunman, Corba
The long trail. 2007. Read by Jay Benedict, 3 hours 55
minutes. TB 15561.
Texas Ranger Mike Hart rode back to Amarillo after a successful
case in which he captured Buck Radd, the notorious bank robber.
But his euphoria vanished when he reported to Captain Buckbee
and learned that Radd had already been busted out of the jail
where he was awaiting trial, and was again robbing banks and
committing murder. TB 15561.
Sunman, Corba
Prairie wolves. 2010. Read by Jay Benedict, 4 hours 8
minutes. TB 18115.
When Bender County, Kansas, becomes the target of a callous
gang of range thieves, deputy sheriff Brad Harper finds himself at
the forefront of the action. Upon learning that his friend is missing,
Harper rides out to his ranch to look for clues and finds the place
ablaze. Harper's troubles do not end here, though, and much blood
will be shed before justice is done. TB 18115.
Vanderhaeghe, Guy
The last crossing. 2002. Read by Simon Curwe, 15 hours 5
minutes. TB 17440.
Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American
and Canadian West and in Victorian England, this is a tale of
interwoven lives and stories. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and
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Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a
guide to help find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the
wilds of the American West. The group soon grows to include a
sycophantic American journalist, a beautiful woman who wants to
avenge her sister's vicious murder, a Civil War veteran searching
for salvation, and a saloonkeeper. TB 17440.
Wade, Bill
The gun from Prison Hill. 1971. Read by Marvin Kane, 4 hours
32 minutes. TB 1613.
Released from prison after a nine-year sentence during which his
guards have tried cruelly and relentlessly to break him, Tim sets
out in this Western to discover the reason for his treatment. TB
1613.
Welch, James
The death of Jim Loney. 1980. Read by Marvin Kane, 5 hours
53 minutes. TB 3690.
A half-breed, alcoholic Indian struggles unsuccessfully to create a
past, and to discover something to give him an identity. TB 3690
Williams, Bill
Satan's gun. 2007. Read by John Chancer, 3 hours 36
minutes. TB 15015.
Nineteen year old Sam Bryson faces a conflict that will test his
courage, character and faith. He had been given his first pistol on
his thirteenth birthday and ordered by his grandpa to practise every
day, except Sunday. Sam Bryson has no reason to fear any man
nor any desire to kill, but he will soon discover that his life is
threatened by others and that he must protect himself. Contains
passages of a sexual nature. TB 15015
Wisler, G Clifton
Ross's gap. 1999. Read by Jeff Harding, 6 hours 50 minutes.
TB 13587.
When Carter Ross left Texas to fight in the Civil War, he left his
half brother, Johnny, in charge of his young family. Johnny was
half Comanche, but Carter had always loved his little brother and
his Comanche relatives. When the war was over, Carter came
home, ready to put fighting behind him. He hadn't expected to find
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himself in the middle of another battle just as bloody and even
more ruthless. The Comanches were being wiped out by the white
settlers, and the Indians were fighting back any way they could,
even if it meant raiding and pillaging the property of Carter's
neighbours. How could his neighbours expect Carter to bear arms
against his own half brother? TB 13587.
Wister, Owen
The Virginian: a horseman of the plains. 2009. Read by
Michael FitzPatrick, 17 hours 9 minutes. TB 19145.
The Virginian is dominated by the romance between the heroic
Virginian and Molly Wood, a schoolteacher from Vermont. The
story takes place in the Wyoming cattle country during the late
1800s when the Virginian was up against the outlaw Trampas. TB
19145.
Young, M C
Silent woman showdown. 2010. Read by Simon Lee Philips, 5
hours 11 minutes. TB 18355.
Tom Bantry just can't understand why the pretty Cora Lee won't
give him the time of day, especially after he rescued her from a
man like Rufus Earle. Soon, however, Tom has other problems to
think about. He stands to lose his ranch to the Earle brothers while
his good friend Silas Sidwell hopes to benefit from the chaos the
troublemakers are causing. Cora Lee may be keeping quiet for
now, but she will have a crucial role to play in bringing things to a
head when the time comes. TB 18355.
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