Books Should Be Free Loyal Books Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads |
|
Westerns |
---|
Book type:
Sort by:
View by:
|
By: Charles King (1844-1933) | |
---|---|
Starlight Ranch And Other Stories Of Army Life On The Frontier
Five stories of Army life in the mid to late 19th century. Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He wrote and edited over 60 books and novels. Among his list of titles are Campaigning with Crook, Fort Frayne, Under Fire and Daughter of the Sioux. |
By: George W. Ogden (1871-1966) | |
---|---|
Trail's End
When an agriculture professor wanders into a wicked Kansas cowtown in order to experiment raising wheat, both the professor and the town get more than they bargain for. A wild and wooly Western. |
By: Agnes C. Laut (1871-1936) | |
---|---|
Lords of the North | |
By: Albert W. Aiken (1846-1894) | |
---|---|
Border Riflemen
In this dime novel set on the American frontier, we meet a beautiful young girl, Sadie, who is fending off advances from the rough woodsman, known as Black Will. Luckily, Cooney Joe comes to her rescue while her father is out hunting. Life is hard on the frontier, and there is constant danger from Black Hawk and his warriors, but Sadie and her father try to live in peace with everyone. |
By: Alfred Henry Lewis (1857-1914) | |
---|---|
Wolfville Nights | |
Wolfville Days | |
Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories | |
Wolfville |
By: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) | |
---|---|
Remember the Alamo |
By: Andre Norton (1912-2005) | |
---|---|
Rebel Spurs
In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest’s Confederate scouts, arrived leading everything he owned behind him—his thoroughbred stud Shiloh, a mare about to foal, and a mule—he knew his business would not be questioned. To anyone in Tubacca there could be only one extraordinary thing about Drew, and that he could not reveal: his name, Rennie... |
By: Andy Adams (1859-1935) | |
---|---|
Cattle Brands
Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the harrowing skirmishes with banditos, thrilling shoot-outs, attempt at and the recapture of stolen chattel from fierce desperados, and much, much more exciting accounts that make one think it all actually happened. | |
The Log of a Cowboy
The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Great Western Cattle Trail. Although the book is fiction, it is firmly based on Adams's own experiences on the trail, and it is considered by many to be the best account of cowboy life in literature. Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his day; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it a compelling classic... | |
The Outlet
Andy Adams worked as a cowboy on trail drives from Texas for eight years. This is an account of a drive when he was the foreman of a herd of Texas cattle being driven to Montana. Expect the same quality writing as found in other books by Adams. | |
Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography
Adams breathes life into the story of a Texas cowboy who becomes a wealthy and influential cattleman.. (Introduction by Wikipedia) |
By: Arthur Chapman (1873-1935) | |
---|---|
Rustlers, Beware!
Cattle rustling had gotten out of control in northern Wyoming, so Asa Swingley is tasked with assembling a host of men to tend to the matter using whatever means necessary. He selects Milt Bertram to be one of his lead assistants, but Bertram becomes sidelined during the trip from Texas, which causes him to grow suspicious of the true nature of this expedition. What ensues leads Bertram to better understand his possible conflict of interest and what he must do to set matters straight. - Summary by Roger Melin |
By: Arthur M. Chisholm (1872-1960) | |
---|---|
Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters |
By: Arthur Preston Hankins (1880-1932) | |
---|---|
The She Boss A Western Story |
By: B. M. Bower (1871-1940) | |
---|---|
Chip, of the Flying U
Cattleman J.G. Whittemore, owner of the Flying U ranch in Montana, trusts the task of meeting his sister at the train to only one man, Chip. Chip’s not too keen on women. In his experience they come in only a few types: prissy “sweet young thing”, annoying cowgirl, or old maid that wants to drag him to church. He isn’t prepared for Miss Della Whittemore, the “Little Doctor.” She turns the ranch upside down, but can she turn Chip head over heels? | |
Cabin Fever | |
The Flying U Ranch | |
The Heritage of the Sioux | |
Her Prairie Knight | |
Good Indian | |
The Trail of the White Mule | |
Skyrider | |
Lure of the Dim Trails
Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought him back to the city, where he grew up and became a writer. To revive his stale writing, he returns to the West, and may just find what he is really missing. | |
Jean of the Lazy A | |
Sawtooth Ranch | |
The Ranch at the Wolverine | |
Rim o' the World | |
Meadowlark Basin
This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of them upstanding but some decidedly not. A cashier is murdered during a bank robbery. The loot and the thieves are sought with dark concerns about who may be guilty. Family ties, ranch life, humor, and romance are interwoven throughout. B. M. Bower was one of the first women to write novels and short stories about the American Old West, of which more than 10 were adapted as films. | |
Cow-Country |
By: Belle Kanaris Maniates | |
---|---|
Penny of Top Hill Trail |
By: Bertrand Sinclair (1881-1972) | |
---|---|
The Hidden Places
Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so chooses to roam about a bit seeking a future for himself. He eventually leads himself to a remote area in British Columbia, which begins the tale of the next phase of his life; a life which becomes far richer in totality than he would have imagined in his old unwelcoming haunts. A life among the hidden places. |
By: Bertrand W. Sinclair (1881-1972) | |
---|---|
Raw Gold A Novel |
By: Bret Harte (1837-1902) | |
---|---|
Selected Stories
Bret Harte (1837–1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. | |
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers | |
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories
A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. | |
In a Hollow of the Hills | |
Colonel Starbottle's Client | |
The Crusade of the Excelsior | |
Tennessee's Partner | |
Maruja |
By: Burt L. Standish (1866-1945) | |
---|---|
Frank Merriwell's Bravery |
By: C. C. (Charles Carroll) Goodwin (1832-1917) | |
---|---|
The Wedge of Gold |
By: Caroline Lockhart (1871-1962) | |
---|---|
The Fighting Shepherdess
A classic style western written by one of the first female western writers. Caroline Lockhart was a rancher, writer and possibly the first woman to go over Glacier National Parks Swiftcurrent Pass. | |
The Man from the Bitter Roots | |
Dude Wrangler
Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and impress her in this genial romantic comedy. |
By: Chalkley J. Hambleton | |
---|---|
A Gold Hunter's Experience
“Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since the panic of 1857 there had been three years of general depression, money was scarce, there was little activity in business, the outlook was discouraging, and I, like hundreds of others, felt blue.” Thus Chalkley J. Hambleton begins his pithy and engrossing tale of participation in the Pike’s Peak gold rush. Four men in partnership hauled 24 tons of mining equipment by ox cart across the Great Plains from St... |
By: Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis (1835-1907) | |
---|---|
Captured by the Navajos |
By: Charles Alden Seltzer (1875-1942) | |
---|---|
The Range Boss | |
The Boss of the Lazy Y | |
'Drag' Harlan | |
The Trail Horde | |
'Firebrand' Trevison | |
Square Deal Sanderson |
By: Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) | |
---|---|
The Soul of the Indian
"We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. It teaches us to be thankful, to be united, and to love one another! We never quarrel about religion." |
By: Charles King | |
---|---|
The Daughter of the Sioux,
Charles King (1844 – 1933) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. He was the son of Civil War general Rufus King and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from West point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook. He was wounded in the arm forcing his retirement from the regular army. During this time he became acquainted with Buffalo Bill Cody. King would later write scripts for several of Cody’s silent films... | |
An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier | |
Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land | |
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War | |
Warrior Gap A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. | |
Marion's Faith. | |
Under Fire |
By: Clarence Edward Mulford (1883-1956) | |
---|---|
Bar-20 Days |
By: Dane Coolidge (1873-1940) | |
---|---|
Shadow Mountain | |
Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp | |
Hidden Water | |
Rimrock Jones | |
Wunpost |
By: David Belasco (1853-1931) | |
---|---|
The Girl of the Golden West |
By: David Wynford Carnegie (1871-1900) | |
---|---|
Spinifex and Sand |
By: Earl Wayland Bowman (1875-1952) | |
---|---|
The Ramblin' Kid |
By: Edward C. Taylor | |
---|---|
Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious | |
Ted Strong in Montana Or, With Lariat and Spur |
By: Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) | |
---|---|
Dave Porter in the Gold Fields or, The Search for the Landslide Mine |
By: Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840-1916) | |
---|---|
Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) |
By: Edwin L. Sabin (1870-1952) | |
---|---|
Desert Dust |
By: Emerson Hough (1857-1923) | |
---|---|
The Sagebrusher A Story of the West |
By: Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) | |
---|---|
The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country |
By: Eva Wilder Brodhead (1870-1915) | |
---|---|
A Prairie Infanta |
By: Evelyn Raymond (1843-1910) | |
---|---|
Dorothy on a Ranch |
By: Florence Finch Kelly (1858-1939) | |
---|---|
With Hoops of Steel | |
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories | |
Delafield Affair
New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. Lucy Bancroft has sought a milder climate so she can recover from typhoid fever. She and her father stop to see Curt Conrad, a rancher, on their way to their new home. The two men discuss politics (some of it crooked) at the state level. they also talk about an easterner, a man named Delafield, who years earlier cheated Conrad's father out of his considerable wealth. Curt has vowed to seek revenge on Delafield if he can ever find the crook. thus begins a harrowing tale of determined search and blossoming love in the hot, dry climate of New Mexico. |
By: Francis Lynde (1856-1930) | |
---|---|
The Taming of Red Butte Western | |
Branded |
By: Frank Gee Patchin (1861-1925) | |
---|---|
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas
Yee-hawww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the trail again! In the second book of this series, Professor Zepplin has taken the young men to San Diego, Texas, to experience the life of a cowboy. The cattle drive will take them across the great state of Texas, where they will meet many dangers and adventures. | |
The Pony Rider Boys in Montana
Yee-Haaw! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! In this book, the 3rd of the series, the boys have decided that they want to explore the north country. They also want to make their own arrangements for the adventure, with the approval of Professor Zepplin, of course! So they have arrived in Forsythe, Montana, to try their luck in the mountains. | |
Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico
Yee-Haw!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time they are on their way to Bluewater, New Mexico, ready for whatever adventure they can find. But this time, trouble spots them on the train. Will the Pony Rider Boys be able to handle whatever comes their way? | |
Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers
Yee-Haw!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again. This time the boys at Delaware Creek, dead in their saddles. They had been riding long and hard into Texas, looking forward to their next adventure. But, trouble finds them once again, this time Stacy Brown may have been shot! What will happen next is anyone's guess. Previous book in the series: The Pony Rider Boys in Grand Canyon Next book in the series: The Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge | |
Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali
Yee-Haww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time the boys are in the desert of Nevada, discovering the beauty and perils in 100 degree heat. It should be another thrilling ride that Professor Zepplin has taken them on! | |
Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks
Yee-Haw!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time the boys are in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri. With Joe Hawk, or Eagle-eye, guiding them, Professor Zepplin and the Pony Rider Boys are sure to find many adventures in this action-packed, fourth book of this series by Frank Gee Patchin. |
By: Frank H. Spearman (1859-1937) | |
---|---|
Nan of Music Mountain | |
The Mountain Divide |
By: Frederic Remington (1861-1909) | |
---|---|
Crooked Trails |
By: Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) | |
---|---|
Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet | |
The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas |
By: G. A. Henty (1832-1902) | |
---|---|
Redskin and Cow-Boy: A Tale of the Western Plains
The central interest of this story is found in the many adventures of an English lad who seeks employment as a cowboy on a cattle ranch. His experiences during a "roundup" present in picturesque form the toilsome, exciting, adventurous life of a cowboy; while the perils of a frontier settlement are vividly set forth in an Indian raid, accompanied by pillage, capture, and recapture. The story is packed full of breezy adventure. |
By: George (Henry George August) Hartmann (1852-1934) | |
---|---|
Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales |