Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated October 3, 2025
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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
L'Amour, Louis
Paper Book
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 and his wife, Marybeth, make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers' crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series. Don't miss the JOE PICKETT series--now streaming on Paramount+ ...
Death comes for the archbishop
Cather, Willa
Paper Book
From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud. In 1851 Father Jean Marie...
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...
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...
Death along the Cimarron : a Ralph Compton novel
Cotton, Ralph W.
Paper Book
A gunslinging woman can't escape her past in this Ralph Compton western. Disguised as "Danny Duggin," Danielle Strange hunted down the merciless cutthroats who murdered her father. Now the feared gunslick has hung up her trademark twin Colts-and given up her secret identity-to...
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
" New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey's latest Champions novel tells the rugged, romantic story of an Arizona family ranch in trouble, as the Champion sisters fight to keep their legacy bull-rearing operation strong, going head-to-head --and heart to heart--with some of the...
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
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, RIZ AHMED, JOHN C. REILLY, AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly * Amazon * Hudson Booksellers * Washington Post Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The...
Desperate warrior days of war, days of peace
Farmer, W. Michael
Paper Book
Switching gears: 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 : a novel
Gonzalez James, Elizabeth
Paper Book
A "mesmerizing...wildly entertaining" (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come,...
The rustlers of Pecos County
Grey, Zane
CD
Texas. They took the most contrary bunch of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians, jumbled them together, and somehow formed a state. They called it Texas, but for defenseless women and children, it was hell. Texas Rangers....
The way West
Guthrie, A. B., Jr.
CD
The Way West, a 1948 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, continues the epic adventure begun in A.B. Guthrie Jr.s The Big Sky. This thrilling sequel reunites us with the wise and paternal mountain man Dick Summers, who agrees to pilot a wagon train full of "greenhorns" on a harrowing journey...
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
"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, the detectives must sort out...
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...
The man who shot Liberty Valance : and, A man called horse ; Lost sister ; The hanging tree
Johnson, Dorothy M.
Paper Book
Dorothy M. Johnson wrote dozens of highly acclaimed western stories and books in her long career. The stories in this book are her very best. They were ranked as four of the top five stories of the 20th century by the Western Writers of America, with "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" as number one....
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...
Other men's horses
Kelton, Elmer.
Paper Book
Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what appears to be a routine duty. Donley Bannister, a West Texas horse trader, has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum, who stole one of Bannister's horses. Ranger Pickard is ordered to find and arrest Bannister and bring him to trial. The Bannister...
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
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...
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.
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.<...
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...
Cold wind
Overholser, Stephen.
Paper Book
When a young hired hand steals Gideon Coopersmith's daughter's pony he goes after him. Ruth, the mother of the young man saves Gideon's life during a snowstorm. When Gideon arrives home he finds vigilantes are also seeking the hired hand.
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...
True grit
Portis, Charles.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller "An epic and a legend." --Washington Post "Quite simply, an American masterpiece." --Boston Globe "Charles Portis had a wonderful talent--original, quirky, exciting." --Larry...
Stagecoach revenge
Pulliam, D. B.
Paper Book
Range War of Callie County
Richards, Dusty
Paper Book
Done and dusted : a novel
Sage, Lyla
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * She's off-limits, but he's never been good at following the rules. Discover the sizzling, small-town brother's best friend romance that went viral on TikTok--now a special edition with an exclusive sneak peek at the next book in the series and a Q&A with the...
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 motion picture starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Gabe Polsky. In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western,...
The Virginian : a horseman of the plains
Wister, Owen
Paper Book
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