Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated October 3, 2025
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Hondo
L'Amour, Louis
Paper Book
In the aftermath of an Apache uprising, Hondo Lane, a U.S. Cavalry dispatcher tries to convince Angie Low and her son, Johnny, to leave their isolated ranch and flee with him to safety.
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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"...
One heart to win
Lindsey, Johanna.
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorJohanna Lindsey's golden anniversary 50th novel presents a passionate tale of hidden identities, family secrets, and love that transcends a fifty-year feud in 1880s Montana Territory.Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry...
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 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. ...
Forever a hero
Miller, Linda Lael
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author The Carsons of Mustang Creek (Book 3) Kelly Wright has never forgotten that horrible night ten years ago when Mace Carson came to her rescue, has never forgotten him. A successful winery in the middle of ranch country has brought her to Mustang...
House made of dawn
Momaday, N. Scott
Paper Book
House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a...
Savage country
Olmstead, Robert
Paper Book
Spur Award-Winning AuthorSMLIn September 1873, Elizabeth Coughlin, bankrupted by her husband's folly and death, embarks on a buffalo hunt with her estranged brother-in-law - a hunt that her husband had planned, she now realizes, as his last hope for saving their land. This is a gripping narrative of...
Cold wind : a western story
Overholser, Stephen.
Paper Book
Chroniclers of the American West believe French trappers were the first Europeans to see North Park, the first to tromp through its lush meadows and scale its forested slopes in search of pelts, which they found aplenty. It is in the midst of this park, in the shadow of Deadman Peak in the Rockies,...
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
#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...
The Virginian
Wister, Owen
Paper Book
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