Western stories books

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers

Bret Harte

The volume gathers Bret Harte’s early Western sketches, condensed novels, and a selection of Spanish‑American…

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains

Owen Wister

The Virginian is a Western set in the waning frontier of Wyoming between 1874 and 1890, a period Owen Wister…

Der Schatz der Sierra Madre

B. Traven

Der Roman ist ein düsterer Western, der im Grenzstädtchen Oso Negro an der Sierra Madre spielt und von Armut,…

Rustlers' roost

W. C. Tuttle

Rustlers’ Roost is a gritty western mystery that opens inside the bleak cell of “Number 1733,” a cowboy named…

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western tale set in 1871 Utah, where the rugged landscape of cottonwoods,…

Sixteen to One on Friday

W. C. Tuttle

Sixteen to One on Friday is a Western yarn that blends humor with a rough‑and‑tumble frontier setting.

The lovable liar

W. C. Tuttle

The story opens in the dusty, half‑built outpost of Tecoma, a “two‑house town” consisting of a…

The man from Oregon

Mary B. Arbuckle

The opening of The Man from Oregon places the reader squarely in a bleak ranch household where the Brownlie…

My Ántonia

Willa Cather

The novel is a work of frontier and pioneer fiction set in Nebraska, told through the recollections of Jim…

Love of Life, and Other Stories

Jack London

Love of Life, and Other Stories is a Jack London collection that plunges the reader straight into the bleak,…

Selected Stories of Bret Harte

Bret Harte

Selected Stories of Bret Harte gathers the author’s most celebrated Western short fiction, a genre he helped…

Bound south

Ernest Haycox

Bound south is a short‑story western that opens with a vivid, almost lyrical portrait of the frontier in late…

The old "yaller" shirt

Ray Humphreys

The story is a Western‑flavoured short tale that mixes rodeo action with a dash of romance, set against the…

The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper

The Prairie is the third installment of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, first published in…

The Man of the Forest

Zane Grey

The opening places the reader squarely in a rugged western landscape, introducing Milt Dale as a solitary…

Lost Face

Jack London

Jack London’s “Lost Face” is a sprawling adventure tale that plunges the reader into the brutal frontier of…

Under Fire

Charles King

The novel is a turn‑of‑the‑century Western that opens on the last day of Captain Wilbur Cranston’s leave.

The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border

Zane Grey

Zane Grey’s The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border is a Western tale that opens with a reflective,…

The Light of the Western Stars

Zane Grey

The opening places the reader in a remote New Mexico rail depot, where the cultured Miss Madeline Hammond,…

Erämaan tytär

James Oliver Curwood

Smoke Bellew

Jack London

The Call of the Canyon

Zane Grey

The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

Andy Adams

Gabriel Conroy

Bret Harte