Classic Western Literature

A mountain man can survive anything, even a cold day in hell. Nathaniel Squire is a giant of a man, and the only one Col. Leander Melton thought could lead his pack of greenhorn would-be trappers into the mountains. And deep in Blackfoot territory, Squire must teach the youths to face the ways of survival, the rage of the Blackfeet, the cunning of a traitor - and what it means to be a mountain man.

Born in Brooklyn, Sammy Gregg is small in stature and naive to the ways of the world, yet headstrong and resolute to save enough money to marry Susie Mitchell. Gregg calculates that he needs $15‚000 and figures he can earn enough in six months out west. Although he is a small man who knows nothing of fighting‚ guns‚ or horses‚ he takes his $5‚000 in savings and heads west‚ arriving in Munson‚ a tough, lawless town.

Quinton, a drifter, stands idly by as a posse wreaks havoc throughout the region. No one is safe--not even cattle--as the gang rides through the hills with murderous intent. However, when the posse points its guns at Quinton, the range explodes into a bloody gun battle.

After a life of crime, Azri's found a calling as a Weapons Caster, notorious for their powerful dusters and ability to assemble guns only a Weapons Caster can handle. When his old partner in crime comes to town looking for his missing wife, and involves a jealous guild member, Azri may find himself in over his head. The rules of a Caster are strict, but harboring a criminal should be the least of his worries.

Here is a tale that concerns the incredible power of friendship. The movie Tennessee's Partner (1955), starring John Payne and Ronald Reagan, was based on this story.

In der afrikanischen Wüste erlebt der Hörer spannende Abenteuer. Von Mursuk bis Kairwan stammt aus dem Hörbuch Halbblut (Band 38 der Gesammelten Werke).

Die Geschichte führt in den Wilden Westen, wo der Jäger Tim Summerland dem Dichter Richard Forster das Leben rettet. Doch dies ist erst der Anfang des Abenteuers... Der Pfahlmann stammt aus dem Hörbuch Halbblut (Band 38 der Gesammelten Werke).

Der junge Robert Surcouf hilft in Beausset einem von Soldaten bedrängten Priester. Viele Jahre später wird er als Kaperkapitän gefürchtet. Der Kaperkapitän stammt aus dem Hörbuch Halbblut (Band 38 der Gesammelten Werke).

Winnetou und Old Shatterhand wollen eine Eisenbahnstation vor dem Überfall des blutgierigen Komantschenhäuptlings Schwarzer Mustang beschützen. Doch es gibt einen Verräter im Camp. Zu allem Übel werden auch noch ihre legendären Waffen, Henrystutzen und Silberbüchse, gestohlen.

Der junge Bloody Fox wuchs als Waisenkind am Rande des Llano Estacado auf. Seine ganze Familie fiel den Stakemen, den Räubern der texanischen Wüste, zum Opfer. Immer wieder treibt der Wunsch nach Rache ihn hinaus in den Llano, wo ein geisterhafter Reiter umgeht, der ein treffsicheres Gewehr in Händen hat. Und dann ist da auch noch die geheimnisumwitterte Oase im Kaktuswald.

Winnetou und Old Shatterhand kämpfen gemeinsam mit dem jungen Martin Baumann gegen den grausamen Häuptling Hong-Peh-Te-Keh vom Stamm der Sioux-Indianer: Gelingt es ihnen, Martins Vater, den alten Bärenjäger, vor dem sicheren Martertod zu retten? Der Sohn des Bärenjägers stammt aus dem Hörbuch Unter Geiern (Band 35 der Gesammelten Werke).

Winnetou und Old Shatterhand werden in einem Fort eingeschneit. Zwei Brüder, die ebenfalls im Fort waren, werden später ermordet. Die Blutsbrüder suchen nach den wahren Mördern. Ein Blizzard stammt aus dem Hörbuch Auf fremden Pfaden (Band 23 der Gesammelten Werke).

Based on some of Zane Grey's own real-life adventures exploring the rugged West with professional guides, including the Grand Canyon area, he here tells the story of hunters with their hounds that go to the rim of the Grand Canyon in hopes of capturing mountain lions alive. This is one of Zane Grey's stories that is especially appealing to young listeners.

When he learns of his parents' death in a train crash, Sam Dana makes his way home to the Bar D ranch—not to claim it, but to settle the estate and move on. He has no need for the hard life of a cattleman after finally striking it big as a prospector. But what Sam finds is far from the home he remembers. The ranch has become an armed camp led by his cantankerous half-brother, Walt, who's been hiring men more skilled with a six-gun than a lasso. In Sam's absence, things have gone downhill in all ways possible.

Tales of the Texas Rangers is a 20th-century Western old-time radio and television police procedural drama that originally aired on NBC Radio from 1950 to 1952 and later on CBS Television from 1955 to 1958. Film star Joel McCrea voiced the radio version as the fictitious Texas Ranger Jace Pearson, who uses the latest scientific techniques to identify criminals. His faithful horse Charcoal (or "Charky") helps Pearson to track down the culprits.

Love and death, bullets and blood.... Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland’s daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss’s daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead.

When Sheriff Ben Stillman accompanies Judge John Bannon and friends to a wedding in Sulfur, Montana Territory, he aims to have a nice long weekend of rest and respite from law dogging. But Angus Whateley has other plans. The crazy ex-Confederate has just been released from prison, and he’s out to avenge the hanging of his cattle-rustling sons--hangings ordered by Bannon.

Sheriff Ben Stillman has enough of a hard time keeping the peace in the town of Clantick without having to worry about the likes of Matt Parrish. Since his father died, Matt has been responsible for the Circle P Ranch in the Two-Bear Mountains - and his hotheaded streak has been responsible for a lot of trouble with other ranchers...including his future father-in-law, Tom Suthern.

The Classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series Begins...Playing poker, smoking cigarettes, drinking whiskey - retirement was treacherous business for ex-lawman Ben Stillman. The best of life seemed to be past, but then the past came looking for him. The son of an old friend rides into Ben's life with a plea for justice and a mind for revenge. Up on the Hi-Line in Montana, a rich Englishman is rustling ranchers out of their livelihoods...and their lives. The boy suspects these rustlers have murdered his father, Milk River Bill Harmon, and the law is too crooked to get any straight answers.

Tiny yet prospering Benficklin, Texas, wants a clean, respectable town marshal to safeguard their pristine community from the kind of riffraff that turned neighboring Santa Angela into a raucous string of blood-spattered saloons and bawdy sporting houses. Former Texas Ranger Emmett Strong seems to be just the man Benficklin’s town fathers are looking for. Reputations aside, Benficklin - not Santa Angela - is the town with the next scandal on its hands, when the ravaged body of a young, murdered Mexican girl is found lying in the middle of Main Street.