Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated October 3, 2025
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Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

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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...
The heart in winter : a novel
Barry, Kevin
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF 2024 FROM THE ECONOMIST AND THE MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE Award-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. "A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O'Brien;...
Shadows reel
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett is called out for a moose poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official....
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...
Marshaling her heart
Connealy, Mary
Paper Book
Will their lives and romance survive the trouble coming their way?Becky Pruitt has always prided herself on knowing everything that's happening on her successful ranch, so an unexpected admission from her foreman, Nate Paxton, comes as quite a surprise. With the notorious Deadeye Gang on the...
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,...
The madstone : a novel
Crook, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Quicksand
Dailey, Janet
Paper Book
"Sizzles with suspense and sexual tension...Dailey keeps the pages flying with action and attraction." -Publishers Weekly The rugged, exciting new story from the New York Times bestselling author tells the tale of an Arizona family ranch in trouble, as the Champion...
Tough luck : a novel
Dallas, Sandra
Paper Book
In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold-mining father. After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a...
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...
Switching Gears: An Anthology of Western Short Fiction : An Anthology of Western Short Fiction
Gear, W Michael.
Paper Book
Discover the unparalleled talent of New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear in Switching Gears, an extraordinary collection of award-winning and critically acclaimed Western short stories. This anthology, a must-read for fans of...
The Bullet Swallower
James, Elizabeth Gonzalez.
Paper Book
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Goodreads, CrimeReads, The Millions, StyleCaster, The EveryGirl, Sunset, Book Riot, and HipLatinaJanuary Recommended Reading by The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, Nerd Daily, The Mary Sue, and Reading Between the Spines"Mesmerizing...wildly...
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 ...
Shadow of the solstice
Hillerman, Anne
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller "Anne Hillerman deserves recognition as one of the finest mystery authors currently working in the genre."--New York Journal of Books In this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman's Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series...
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...
The Longmire defense
Johnson, Craig
Paper Book
Sheriff Walt Longmire uncovers a cold case that hits very close to home and forces him to put his life on the line with implications that some people would kill to keep buried forever The hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+ Sheriff Walt Longmire...
Outlaw country
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
"For most couples, the marriage vows end with Til death do us part. But when Smoke Jensen takes Sally Reynolds as his lawfully wedded wife, its just the beginning. The tragic deaths of Smokés first wife and child weigh heavily on his heart. Thankfully, Sally is there to give him the support he needs...
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...
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...
Raylan
Leonard, Elmore
Paper Book
"Elmore Leonard can write circles around almost anybody active in the crime novel today." --New York Times Book Review With more than forty novels to his credit and still going strong, the legendary Elmore Leonard has well earned the title, "America's greatest crime writer"...
The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel
Lin, Tom
Paper Book
Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award A Chinese American assassin sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact revenge on her abductors in this New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: a twist...
One heart to win
Lindsey, Johanna.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey presents a passionate novel of hidden identities, family secrets, and a love that transcends a fifty-year feud, set in the majestic ranchland of 1880s Montana Territory. Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few...
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...
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....
Lonesome Dove : a novel
McMurtry, Larry.
Paper Book
The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness. ...
Forever a hero
Miller, Linda Lael
Paper Book
Discover bestselling author Linda Lael Miller's latest masterpiece, Where the Creek Bends, a mesmerizing tale where age-old secrets and poignant journeys unravel the deepest truths of family and the path to self-discovery.
House made of dawn
Momaday, N. Scott
Paper Book
The Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece set against the landscape of the American Southwest. 'Superb' New York Times A young Native American, Abel has come home to New Mexico from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his...
Cold trail : a novel
Moore, Taylor
Paper Book
In the fourth pulse-pounding thriller in the series, DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl must find out what's truly tainted in the energy industry and uncover a deep-rooted plot in order to protect his new business, beloved ranch, and family. Perfect for fans of C. J. Box and Jack Carr.<...
Forgotten Rose
Nesbitt, John D.
Paper Book
Outlawed : a novel
North, Anna
Paper Book
Look for Bog Queen, the new novel by Anna North-the story of a monumental discovery that sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us. Coming October 2025. A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *...
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...
Wyoming homecoming
Palmer, Diana
Paper Book
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
Done and dusted
Sage, Lyla
Paper Book
'A sweet slow burn . . . sunshine in written form' - Lana Ferguson, USA Today bestselling author She's off-limits, but he's never been good at following the rules . . . For the first time in her life, Clementine 'Emmy' Ryder has no idea what she's...
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
Butcher's Crossing
Williams, John
Paper Book
**NOW A MAJOR FILM** BY THE AUTHOR OF STONER Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he...
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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