Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated November 15, 2024
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The brave cowboy : an old tale in a new time
Abbey, Edward
Paper Book
From acclaimed author and literary genius Edward Abbey comes this classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are The Brave--a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and the American West. "We are living. . . among punishments and ruins. For those that know this,...
Hondo : a novel
L'Amour, Louis
Paper Book
As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son...
Death comes for the Archbishop
Cather, Willa
Paper Book
In 1851 Bishop Latour and his colleague Father Vaillant are dispatched to New Mexico to revitalise its slumbering Catholicism. In this harsh, beautiful and alien land, they strive to blend their own refined French culture and subtle beliefs with the earthy sensuality and vivid traditions of their...
Ralph Compton's The shadow of a noose : a novel
Cotton, Ralph W.
Paper Book
In this Ralph Compton western, the Strange twins find themselves in double trouble... Young Jed and Tim Strange lost their father to an outlaw's bullet, and now their mother has succumbed to a fatal illness. Unable to farm their land due to a lack of funds, the twins set out to...
My name is Yip
Crewe, Paddy
Paper Book
For readers of Charles Portis and Cormac McCarthy, My Name Is Yip is a bold, revisionist take on the Western novel set in the Georgia gold rush, by a powerful debut novelist with an original voice. With its colorful description of people and places, comic...
The madstone : a novel
Crook, Elizabeth
Paper Book
The Sisters brothers
deWitt, Patrick
Paper Book
From the author of 'Ablutions', 'The Sisters Brothers' is an offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother who are on the trail of 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...
Desperate warrior days of war, days of peace
Farmer, W. Michael
Paper Book
Giant
Ferber, Edna
Paper Book
"A powerful story...truly as big as its subject." -- Los Angeles Times The basis for the classic film starring James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson, Giant is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's sweeping generational tale of power, love, cattle barons, and...
The Rustlers of Pecos County: Large Print
Grey, Zane.
Paper Book
In the morning, after breakfasting early, I took a turn up and down the main street of Sanderson, made observations and got information likely to serve me at some future day, and then I returned to the hotel ready for what might happen.The stage-coach was there and already full of passengers. This...
The big sky : a novel
Guthrie, A. B., Jr.
Paper Book
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. B. Guthrie, Jr., The Big Sky is a classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. The Best Novel of the American West as chosen by members of the Western Literature Association ...
A century of great Western stories
Jakes, John
Paper Book
John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning of the millennium, he has...
Hell is empty
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Sheriff Walt Longmire faces an icy hell in this New York Times bestseller from Craig Johnson The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+ Well-read and world-weary, Sheriff Walt Longmire has been maintaining order in Wyoming's Absaroka...
The hanging party
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
"His name is Jon Gage. Most folks know him as "Texas Lightning," the fastest draw in the West. The deadliest, too. Rumor has it he's killed more than thirty men in half as many years, a body count he won't deny. His reputation as a gunslinger, widowmaker, and all-around hellraiser inspires awe,...
While the town slept
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
The latest blazing, breakneck adventure in the Tim Colter Western series by the bestselling legends of historical Westerns in which the assassination of President Grant is on the line. Wyoming Territory, 1873 . Tim Colter and his trusted guide, mountain man Jed Reno, are on the trail of a vicious...
All the pretty horses
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who...
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West
McCarthy, Cormac
Paper Book
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION * From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the...
Lonesome Dove : a novel
McMurtry, Larry.
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize­-winning classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier and rich with complex characters, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness. ...
Appaloosa
Parker, Robert B.
Paper Book
A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers. It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time...
Brimstone
Parker, Robert B.
Paper Book
"New York Times"-bestselling author 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.
True grit
Portis, Charles.
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Charles Portis's True Grit is "an epic and a legend" (Washington Post), a story of danger and adventure in the Old West--the basis for two award-winning films, the first starring John Wayne in his only Oscar-winning role, as...
Stagecoach revenge
Pulliam, D. B.
Paper Book
Range War of Callie County
Richards, Dusty
Paper Book
Western stars : two novels in one
Roberts, Nora
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon Nora Roberts presents two novels of untamed desire in one volume with Western Stars... Song of the West Philadelphian Samantha Evans is content with the life she made for herself after competing...
The shootist
Swarthout, Glendon
Paper Book
This is an extremely well-written Western and gives the reader vivid insight into the workings of the mind of a wanderer and gunman.?Baton Rouge, Louisiana Sunday Advocate  By the author of The Homesman, now a major motion picture The Shootist...
Orphan cowboy
Vaughan, Robert
Paper Book
The Virginian
Wister, Owen
Paper Book
Loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892, a bloody clash between big landowners and small ranchers in Wyoming, Owen Wister's The Virginian is the classic saga of a man who embodied the spirit of a growing nation--a novel that inspired five movie versions and the popular TV series.

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