Western stories books

That Girl Montana

Marah Ellis Ryan

That Girl Montana is a Western tale set in the rugged Kootenai Valley at the turn of the twentieth‑century,…

The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California

Gustave Aimard

The Treasure of Pearls is a Western romance that plunges the reader straight into the law‑less frontier of…

'Firebrand' Trevison

Charles Alden Seltzer

‘Firebrand’ Trevison is a Western story that begins not with a gunfight but with a flurry of letters written…

Desert Conquest; or, Precious Waters

A. M. Chisholm

Desert Conquest; or, Precious Waters is a Western adventure that opens aboard a rattling Pullman train…

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest

James B. Hendryx

The Promise is a rugged western adventure set in the snow‑bound forests of the Northwestern States, and it…

The Watchers of the Plains: A Tale of the Western Prairies

Ridgwell Cullum

Ridley Steyne’s “The Watchers of the Plains” opens with a stark portrait of a weather‑worn hut on the White…

Shoe-Bar Stratton

Joseph Bushnell Ames

The novel opens with a vivid, almost cinematic description of a lone rider, Buck Stratton, watching a…

Crooked Trails and Straight

William MacLeod Raine

Crooked Trails and Straight is a fast‑moving Western that thrusts the reader straight into the dust‑choked…

Prairie Flowers

James B. Hendryx

Prairie Flowers is a Western tale that opens with a lively domestic scene, where a husband and wife banter…

Red Men and White

Owen Wister

Red Men and White is a modestly sized anthology of eight short tales that aim to capture the texture of the…

The Gold Girl

James B. Hendryx

The Gold Girl is a Western adventure that plunges the reader straight into the rugged wilderness of a…

Oh, You Tex!

William MacLeod Raine

The work is a Western adventure that opens with a vivid, almost cinematic tableau of the high‑desert…

Desert Dust

Edwin L. Sabin

Desert Dust is a Western tale that begins with a self‑conscious narrator from Albany, New York, who decides…

Tonio, Son of the Sierras: A Story of the Apache War

Charles King

The work is a Western adventure set during the Apache War of 1872‑73, focusing on Lieutenant “Hefty” Harris,…

The Fighting Edge

William MacLeod Raine

The Fighting Edge is a gritty western tale that opens on a remote Colorado homestead, where June Tolliver, a…

The Branding Iron

Katharine Newlin Burt

The opening of The Branding Iron drops the reader into a frozen, moon‑lit wilderness where the night is…

The Dude Wrangler

Caroline Lockhart

The Dude Wrangler is a comic‑leaning Western set in the genteel world of a seaside resort hotel, where the…

Brand Blotters

William MacLeod Raine

Brand Blotters is a rugged Western tale that thrusts the reader into the harsh desert at the moment a lone…

The Highgrader

William MacLeod Raine

The Highgrader opens aboard an ocean liner at dusk, its glass‑smooth sea and mist‑shrouded horizon setting a…

The Forester's Daughter: A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

Hamlin Garland

The novel is a Western romance set in the rugged Bear‑Tooth Range of Colorado, where a stagecoach line…

The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse

Hamlin Garland

The Range Boss

Charles Alden Seltzer

The Range Boss is a Western tale that launches with a lone rider and his wiry pony scaling a rugged mesa,…

The Fighting Shepherdess

Caroline Lockhart

The Fighting Shepherdess is a Western tale that thrusts the reader straight into the rough‑and‑tumble life of…

Penny of Top Hill Trail

Belle Kanaris Maniates

Belle Kanaris Maniates’s “Penny of Top Hill Trail” opens on a spring afternoon in a western railway depot,…