Westerns

Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, but there are also a number of works about Western-type characters in contemporary settings.

Westerns often stress the harshness of the wilderness and frequently set the action in an arid, desolate landscape.

Fever Dream (Emerald Lake, #1)
Babylon, South Dakota
Treat Them as Buffalo
By the Bootstraps (Starlight Ridge)
High Water (The Quiet Horsemen #4)
Blue Norther (Silver Ridge Ranch, #1)
My Whiskey Redemption (The Whiskeys: Dark Knights at Redemption Ranch, #5)
Wilde Flame (Love is a Cowboy #3)
Rein Me In (Blue Crescent Harbor #1)
Forget That Guy (Don't Date Him, #5)
Stolen Hope (Dragonfly Creek Book 1)
Ryder (Lucky River Ranch #5)
Chasing the Fire (Silver Pines Ranch, #5)
In the Great Quiet
This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
Ryder (Lucky River Ranch #5)
Make Me (Play Me #4)
Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)
In the Great Quiet
Chasing the Fire (Silver Pines Ranch, #5)
Sap & Secrets (Maplewood, #1)
Wilde Flame (Love is a Cowboy #3)
Between the Pines (Black Springs Ranch, #1)
Riding the High (Silver Pines Ranch, #3)
Whisper Sweet Nothings (Rosewood River, #6)
Blue Norther (Silver Ridge Ranch, #1)
Darling Daffodils Farm (Hope Harbor, #1)
Sunday Morning (Sunday Morning, #1)
Love Grows Wild
At Whit's End (Wells Ranch, #4)
On the Road to Death's Door by Peggy Joque WilliamsBlue Coyote Motel by Dianne HarmanCornered Coyote by Dianne HarmanHeavy Duty People by Iain ParkeThe Saladin Strategy by Norm Clark
Indie Mysteries, Thrillers, Westerns
609 books — 547 voters
Almost a Cowboy by Em PetrovaTexas Straight Up by Jodi VaughnOne Night with a Cowboy by Cat JohnsonGoing Cowboy Crazy by Katie LaneMcKettrick's Pride by Linda Lael Miller
Best Cowboy Romance Books
434 books — 416 voters

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisAll the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthyThe Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Literary Westerns
291 books — 404 voters
The Redemption of Caralynne Hayman by Carole   BrownDavid by Louis  McCallInfernal Gates by Michael Jack WebbMARY by Louis   McCallAm I Okay, God? Devotionals from the Seventh Dimension by Lorilyn Roberts
Christian Indie Authors
1,155 books — 734 voters

Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
True Grit
The Sisters Brothers
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
Flawless (Chestnut Springs, #1)
Heartless (Chestnut Springs, #2)
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
No Country for Old Men
Riders of the Purple Sage (Riders of the Purple Sage, #1)
Done and Dusted (Rebel Blue Ranch, #1)
Hondo
Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
Butcher's Crossing

Nathanael West
Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he? ...more
Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust

Cricket Rohman
Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.” The two men stared at her, confused. “English, please. You’re talking to country boys.
Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

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