Western

Adult Fiction - Western

Updated May 19, 2023
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High lonesome
L'Amour, Louis
Paper Book
In one of his most riveting novels of adventure, America’s favorite storyteller follows the treacherous trail of an outlaw determined to make his big strike and then disappear into a new life. But can a wrong turn be made righ—and can the heart of a hardened man still be moved by a...
The Zane Grey frontier trilogy
Grey, Zane
Paper Book
Zane Grey's first trilogy--"Betty Zane," "The Last Trail," and "The Spirit of the Border"--now available for the first time in one big volume Inspired by the life and adventures of the author's great-great grandmother, "Betty Zane" tells the story of the last battle of the American Revolution,...
El Paso : a novel
Groom, Winston
Paper Book
Long fascinated with the Mexican Revolution and the vicious border wars of the early twentieth century, best-selling author Winston Groom brings to life a much-forgotten period of history in this episodic saga set in six parts. Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against "the Colonel," a thrill...
Glorious : [a novel of the American West]
Guinn, Jeff.
Paper Book
New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight, Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West, weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872. We’ve all got mistakes in our past we...
The hour of lead : a novel
Holbert, Bruce.
Paper Book
Lonesome Animals was named as a Best Book of 2012 by both The Seattle Times and Slate, a literary debut sparking with beautiful language set against the rugged landscape of 1920s Washington state. Holbert returns with The Hour of Lead, an epic family novel and coming of age...
An obvious fact
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
In the 12th novel in the New York Times bestselling Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire, Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident involving a young...
The raiders : sons of Texas
Kelton, Elmer.
Paper Book
In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the British, moves his family into the western Tennessee canebrakes. But Mordecai, a born wanderer, is not satisfied with farming, and with his sons Michael and Andrew and some other backwoodsmen, he leads a...
Robert B. Parker's Revelation
Knott, Robert
Paper Book
Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return to confront an escaped criminal in the grittiest entry yet in Robert B. Parker's New York Times bestselling series.   Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in...
The land of promise
Lacy, Al.
Paper Book
LAND RUSH! Britt Clairborne, United Cherokee Nation Chief of Police, and his sweet wife, Cherokee Rose, face challenging times. It’s 1889, and the Cherokees are being moved onto reservations within the Oklahoma District. The remainder of the land promised to them decades...
Road to reckoning
Lautner, Robert.
Paper Book
"Remarkable...A novel about a young man reaching for manhood after the killing of his father and about the invention and selling of Col. Samuel Colt's revolving pistol, and the way it changed the West. Those who love True Grit will love this" (Michael Korda, author of Hero).
Seth MacFarlane's a million ways to die in the West
MacFarlane, Seth
Paper Book
From the creator of Family Guy and director of Ted comes a hilarious first novel that reinvents the Western.   Mild-mannered sheep farmer Albert Stark is fed up with the harsh life of the American frontier, where it seems everything and anything can kill you: Duels...
Thunder and rain
Martin, Charles
Paper Book
Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed-- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble...
Bad country : a novel
McKenzie, C. B.
Paper Book
Winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Novel, a finalist for a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, a finalist for the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel, and a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, a debut mystery set in the...
The Last Kind Words Saloon : a novel
McMurtry, Larry
Paper Book
Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon he returns again to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove....
Lone survivor
Meszaros, V. S.
Paper Book
Rusty McBride is carrying the richest shipment of his life--silver traded to him by the Shawnee. He's on the trail to Fort Pitt to trade his treasure when he picks up the attention of a gritty rustler in a settlement along the way. Rusty can tell that this man knows he's hauling some...
Savage country : a novel
Olmstead, Robert
Paper Book
"The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . ." Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his...
The Blinds : [a novel]
Sternbergh, Adam
Paper Book
BOLO Top Read of 2017 PopSugar Best Book of 2017   From the Edgar Award-nominated author of Shovel Ready, a blistering new thriller that Dennis Lehane calls "propulsive and meaningful" For fans of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Thompson, the Coen Brothers, and Lost ...
The carrion birds
Waite, Urban.
Paper Book
The Carrion Birds from Urban Waite, author of the highly acclaimed The Terror of Living, is a remarkable work of literary noir. Hired gun Ray Lamar is ready to put his past behind him. He wants to see his twelve-year-old son and start a new life--away from the violence of the last ten...
The long night of Winchell Dear : a novel
Waller, Robert James
Paper Book
The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas...

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