Oregon City Adult Western Genre List

Western books in the Oregon City Adult Fiction Collection.

Updated October 3, 2025
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Hondo. [large print]
L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988
Paper Book
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 on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to...
Heart in Winter
Barry, Kevin
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD One of the year's most anticipated books (The Guardian, The New Statesmen, The Irish Times, The Journal, The Observer)--A savagely funny and achingly romantic...
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
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...
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...
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...
The Sisters brothers.
deWitt, Patrick, 1975-
Paper Book
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Prix des libraires du Quebec and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die:...
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 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 &...
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., 1938-2004
Paper Book
Set in the early days of the Jensen family saga, this gunblazing adventure follows Smoke and Sally from their first year of marriage to the founding of the legendary Sugarloaf Ranch... For most couples, the marriage vows end with "'Til death do us part." But when Smoke Jensen...
While the Town Slept
Johnstone, William W.
Paper Book
JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. LAND OF ASSASSINS. Deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Colter, an unsung hero of the American West who survived the harsh frontier, fought in the Civil War, and now faces the greatest danger of all- a plot to kill the U.S. President . . . Wyoming...
Other men's horses.
Kelton, Elmer, 1926-
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...
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
#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. [online electronic book]
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Ebook
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....
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 magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land "Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains." - The Paris Review<...
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
"...You just can't do better than a Diana Palmer story to make your heart lighter and smile brighter."--Fresh Fiction New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer's dramatic tale of an embittered small-town sheriff as he comes face to face with the woman who has...
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. [large print]
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
Charlie Brackeen owns the big ranch that takes up the entire north end of drought-stricken Callie County. When he pushes his B-Bar-M cattle south of their own range, it's no mistake-it's a hostile takeover, enforced by Sheriff Alex Woodbridge, the tough, one-eyed former Texas Ranger who's in...
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 : A Classic Western Adventure
Paper Book
In the heart of Texas, an unexpected legacy shapes one man's destiny. Lee Edward Holt, raised in the embrace of Our Lady of Mercy Orphanage, cherishes the only home he's ever known. Unaware of his true parentage, he thrives within the familiar walls of his...
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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