Westerns

Updated December 5, 2023
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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....
Wolves of Eden : a novel
McCarthy, Kevin
Paper Book
A saga of loyalty and survival in the vast, severe American West. Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown into ferocious...
Give-a-Damn Jones
Pronzini, Bill
Paper Book
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Bill Pronzini debuts a thrilling western with expert storytelling and a mysterious hero who will appeal to Pronzini's Nameless fans. Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly...
Robert B. Parker's Buckskin
Knott, Robert
Paper Book
Lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must prevent all-out war between rival factions in the latest adventure in the New York Times-bestselling series. When gold is discovered in the foothills just outside of Appaloosa, it sets off a fight between two shrewd local business...
Springfield 1880.
Johnstone, William W., 1938-2004
Paper Book
With a handful of murderous rogues, Captain Jed Foster has run off with four wagons containing new Springfield rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidder-whether it's Apaches, Mexican...
Texas Ranger
Patterson, James
Paper Book
In James Patterson's #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder. Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's...
The last cowboys of San Geronimo.
Stansel, Ian
Paper Book
"One of the most compelling novels I've read in a long time." --Eowyn Ivey   "Shares the trail with the likes of Edward Abbey, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry." --Craig Johnson, best-selling author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the hit show Longmire...
The big showdown.
Spillane, Mickey, 1918-2006.
Paper Book
They killed the new sheriff. Now they'll have to deal with Caleb York... Times are changing. Caleb York is saddling up to try his hand as a Pinkerton man out California way. But before he can leave Trinidad, New Mexico, a peaceful morning erupts in a barrage of gunfire...
Witness seeker. [large print]
Wallace, Stone, 1957-
Paper Book
Stone WallaceChance Gambel is a Witness Seeker, searching for witnesses to crimes who might testify in trials held in the frontier territories of the Southwest, circa 1885. He teams with a Mexican named Francisco Velasquez to search for the vicious gang leader Silvano Ramos, who brutally murdered...
The cold dish.
Johnson, Craig, 1961-
Paper Book
Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author, the first in the Longmire mystery series Craig Johnson's new novel, LAND OF WOLVES, is forthcoming from Viking Fans of Ace Atkins, Nevada Barr and...
Smoke Jensen : the beginning.
Johnstone, William W., 1938-2004
Paper Book
The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century For the first time, an epic account of a boy born into a struggle for survival on the harsh and unforgiving American frontier, the story behind the legend of Smoke Jensen. . . On the eve of the Civil War, Kirby Jensen...
Don't be a stranger.
Nesbitt, John D.
Paper Book
A Spur Award-winning AuthorElwood Lawrence, top hand at the Crown Butte ranch, is missing some cattle and it looks like an inside job. As he continues to track down the rustlers, unknown enemies sabotage and take shots at him. Elwood realizes there is more at stake than a few stolen cattle as one...
Hard country : a novel
McGarrity, Michael.
Paper Book
A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier. Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family's struggle to settle and endure in the vast, untamed territory of New Mexico....
The hot kid
Leonard, Elmore
Paper Book
The undisputed master of the crime novel strikes again with this powerfully entertaining story, set in 1920s Oklahoma, that introduces one of the toughest lawmen ever to come out of the west. . . .  Carlos Webster was 15 the day he witnessed his first murder--but it wouldn't be his...
The thicket
Lansdale, Joe R.
Paper Book
In The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom, the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could...
The Chuckwagon trail.
Johnstone, William W., 1938-2004
Paper Book
Johnstone Country.Frontier Spirit Lives Here. National bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone spin a breakneck tale about a heroic chuckwagon cook who knows just what to do when cowboys get hungry-for revenge . . . THE CHUCKWAGON TRAIL
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...

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