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 1927-1989
Paper Book
The classic novel that inspired the motion picture Lonely Are the Brave—a stirring and unforgettable tribute to the American hero and American West. A classic of modern Western literature, The Brave Cowboy follows Jack Burns, a loner at odds with modern civilization. He rides a...
Hondo
L'Amour, Louis 1908-1988
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.
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 1873-1947
Paper Book
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith.
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, death along the Cimarron : a Ralph Compton novel
Cotton, Ralph W.
Paper Book
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 1975-
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
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,...
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 1932-
Paper Book
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...
While the town slept
Johnstone, William W.
Other men's horses
Kelton, Elmer.
Paper Book
Nothing stirs up emotions in Texas like men stealing other men's horses. Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what seems to be a routine duty. West Texas horse trader Donley Bannister has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum who stole one of his horses. Ranger Pickard is to find and arrest...
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...
Hard land
Legg, John
Paper Book
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 1996-
Paper Book
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
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...
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 *...
Wyoming homecoming
Palmer, Diana
Paper Book
Appaloosa
Parker, Robert B. 1932-2010
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
.".. published in the year 2010 by arrangement with Simon & Schuster"--T.p. verso.
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...
Orphan cowboy
Vaughan, Robert
Paper Book
The Virginian : a horseman of the plains
Wister, Owen 1860-1938
Paper Book
In the thousands of miles of rugged rangeland around Medicine Bow, Wyoming, the only law that rules is the law of the gun. A man has to have an iron jaw and a fast trigger to stay alive. And no one is tougher than the Virginian. A peaceable man by nature, slow to anger and soft-spoken, fair and just...
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