Recommended Western Books

Blue-Eyed Devil

Robert B. Parker

Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk. The new chief is Amos Callico, a tall, fa...

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Published: May 2011

Wagons West: California

Dana Fuller Ross

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 w...

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Published: Dec 2010

Wagons West: Montana

Dana Fuller Ross

In the fateful years following the Civil War, a shattered nation comes together to rebuild the dream that first lured them westward - the dream of freedom. Across the snowy mountains and grassy plains, America's best and bravest seek ...

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Published: Dec 2011

A Big Sky Christmas

William W. Johnstone

In the fall of 1873, a wagon train of immigrants sets off from Kansas City, Missouri, bound for the Montana Territory. Leading the group is newly elected wagon master Jamie Ian MacCallister, a giant of a man and frontier legend who sw...

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Published: Oct 2013

Have Brides, Will Travel

William W. Johnstone

JOHNSTONE. WHERE IT'S NEVER QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. In this rollicking new series, the Johnstones cordially invite you to the biggest, baddest event of the season—one that gives a whole new meaning to "shotgun wedding"...

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Published: Sep 2019

Frontier America

William W. Johnstone

PREACHER + MacCALLISTER = DOUBLE THE MAYHEM   Two of the Johnstones' most legendary heroes—the rugged mountain man known as Preacher and the Scottish clan rancher Jamie Ian MacCallister, here together for the first time—are force...

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Published: Jul 2019

Zane Grey - Wildfire: "This, Then, Wa...

Zane Grey

Pearl Zane Grey was born January 31st, 1872, in Zanesville, Ohio. From an early age, he was intrigued by history, fishing, baseball, and writing, all of which would stimulate his later success. Grey was an avid reader of adventure st...

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Published: Apr 2016

Ralph Compton the Dangerous Land

Ralph Compton

TIME IS RUNNING OUT Frontier life is hard enough without having kids to worry about—especially for a widower like Paul Meakes. Still, he’s settled where he is and resolved to stay in the small Colorado town his son and daughter c...

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Published: Sep 2014

To the River's End: A Thrilling Weste...

William W. Johnstone

An epic saga based on true events of the American West —with the trailblazing fur trappers and the mountain men who lived it. This is an unforgettable journey into the untamed American frontier. Where nature is cruel, violence l...

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Published: Aug 2022

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ra...

Ralph Moody

Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there at the dawn of the century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation...

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Published: Sep 1991

Undertaker's Friend: A Classic Wester...

Peter Brandvold

SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER. Gideon Hawk shoots three men who try to rob the saloon he's drinking in. One of those men is the spoiled son of a local rancher, Mortim...

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Published: Apr 2022

Texas Sunrise: Two Novels of the Texa...

Elmer Kelton

In Massacre at Goliad, tensions mount between Mexican authorities and American newcomers. Revolution is in the air, something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but his brother Joshua fears, since Joshua is in love with a Mexican girl. The stor...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Trailsman #352: Texas Tangle

Jon Sharpe

When Fargo comes across five wagons and a mess of corpses, he gets caught up on a mission to rescue four young ladies from rampaging Comanche warriors. But when he discovers the truth behind the bloodshed, the Trailsman is forced to f...

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Published: Feb 2011

A Good Day for a Massacre

William W. Johnstone

Johnstone Country. Where it's never quiet on the Western front. Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy "Slash" Braddock and Melvin "Pecos Kid" Baker. But these r...

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Published: Jun 2020

Rattlesnake Wells, Wyoming

William W. Johnstone

Johnstone Justice. What America Needs Now. The first story in a fiery new series about the west's most dangerous boomtown, and the reformed outlaw who risks his life to keep it safe . . . RATTLESNAKE WELLS, WYOMING  In the dark sha...

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Published: Jan 2018

Arizona Ames: A Western Story

Zane Grey

Not all outlaws are bad mend.Rich Ames didn't set out to be a gunslinger-it was forced on him. When two men roughed up his sweet sister, Rich reached for his trusty Colt and let loose on them. When the smoke cleared, Rich was the only...

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Published: May 2016

The Shotgun Wedding (Have Brides, Wil...

William W. Johnstone

The all-time masters of the classic Western cordially invite you to another trip down the aisle with America's mail order brides--and the foolhardy men who thought they could tame them... Bo Creel and Scratch Morton are mighty proud...

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Published: Nov 2020

Shootout of the Mountain Man

William W. Johnstone

Invitation To A HangingThey're hanging Billy Ray Cabot in Cloverdale, Nevada on Friday. Or so they think. Thursday brings Smoke Jensen to town. In another life, Billy Ray was almost kin to Smoke, and guilty or not, Smoke will blast Cl...

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Published: Dec 2010

A Real Cowboy

Carla Cassidy

New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy brings cowboys, suspense and blazing passion under starry Oklahoma skies!  "I ride alone," cowboy Lucas Taylor warns New Yorker Nicolette Kendall. But when she and her son, S...

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Published: Mar 2015

Fair Blows the Wind (Louis L'Amour's ...

Louis L'Amour

As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!  His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the la...

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Published: Jul 2018

Pitchfork Pass

William W. Johnstone

Johnstone Country.  Frontier Spirit Lives Here.  Life is hard on the American frontier. Justice is even harder. But when it comes to revenge, no man can escape the righteous wrath of a wronged bounty hunter. Especially when his nam...

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Published: Mar 2018

Colter's Journey

William W. Johnstone

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITERS OF THE 21ST CENTURYIn this thrilling epic of the American West, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone capture the human side of the frontier experience in all its glory, grit, and ...

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Published: Jun 2017

Callaghen (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treas...

Louis L'Amour

Callaghen's business is soldiering. For twenty years he'd fought all over the world, from China to the deserts of California; now he's a private in the U.S. Cavalry, poorly paid, his enlistment about to run out. He's ready to move on ...

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Published: Nov 2016

Down the Long Hills (Louis L'Amour's ...

Louis L'Amour

Everyone was dead. Indian raiders massacred the entire wagon train. Only seven-year-old Hardy Collins and three-year-old Betty Sue Powell managed to survive. With a knife, a horse, and the survival lessons his father taught him, Hardy...

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Published: Nov 2016

Hard Country

Michael McGarrity

A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier. Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's struggle to settle and endure in the ...

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Published: May 2013

Brimstone

Robert B. Parker

New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. W hen we last saw Virgil Co...

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Published: May 2010

Preacher's Frenzy

William W. Johnstone

JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE THE GOOD DIE YOUNG. AND THE BAD DIE SOONER.  There are two kinds of traps in the Old West. One is the kind that Preacher and his buddy, Charlie, use to catch a mountain-load of fur pelts. The other is the kin...

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Published: Sep 2017

Longarm #432: Longarm and the Whiskey...

Tabor Evans

WHITE LIGHTNING One good lawman has already been murdered in pursuit of Missouri moonshiners who could care less if their rotgut leaves a person blind-or even dead. Now it's Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long's turn to search out their ...

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Published: Oct 2014

Slocum 417

Jake Logan

SAVAGE TRAIL It's the closest shave Slocum's ever had-and that's saying plenty. But rescuing a dark-haired beauty seconds ahead of Apache war parties is just the start of one long nightmare ride that leads to Raul Gomez, an outlaw w...

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Published: Oct 2013

Paid in Blood

William W. Johnstone

Johnstone Justice. What America Needs Now. From the bestselling chroniclers of the American West comes a riveting new chapter in the epic Buckhorn saga—the legendary adventures of a young gun-for-hire with Indian blood, a lightning...

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Published: Aug 2018

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