Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated November 22, 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
Ebook
Two nineteenth-century French priests pioneer through the American Southwest in this stunning classic from a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Following the Mexican-American War, two French Jesuits leave Sandusky, Ohio, on a mission. Bishop Jean Marie Latour and his friend Father...
The ox-bow incident
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
Paper Book
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally...
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
The Sisters brothers
deWitt, Patrick
Paper Book
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure...
Desperate warrior days of war, days of peace
Farmer, W. Michael
Paper Book
The big sky : a novel
Guthrie, A. B., Jr.
Audiobook
Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthries epic adventure novels of Americas vast frontier. The Big Sky introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers, three of the most memorable characters in western American literature. Traveling the...
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
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen...
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West
McCarthy, Cormac
Ebook
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 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. ...
Appaloosa
Parker, Robert B.
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling Western from Robert B. Parker Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole are lawmen and friends who share the brutal hardships of an emerging West. But the courage that has defined them is challenged by a man without conscience or remorse. Now, Hitch and...
Brimstone
Parker, Robert B.
Paper Book
Cole and Hitch are back in a new Western classic... The guns-for-hire introduced in Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa are back... When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track down the woman who stole Virgil's heart, they find a dispirited prostitute rather than the...
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...
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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