Dusty Richards has 34 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 52 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is North to the Salt Fork.
North to the Salt Fork
Summary
Captain Jack Starr served the Confederate cause with honor for four years. The town of Lost Dog Creek promised an opportunity for the war veteran to rebuild his life-and a woman to share it with. But not everyone is willing to roll out the welcome wagon....
©2010 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2012 Recorded Books
The O'Malleys of Texas: Dead Aim
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From Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards comes a thrilling new chapter in the O'Malley family saga, a blazing American epic of blood, bullets, and brotherhood set deep in the heart of Texas.... Long John O'Malley is only 19 years old, but he's no greenhorn. The oldest and boldest of the O'Malley brothers, Long John cut his teeth tangling with Comanche at the tender age of 16. He risked his life to rescue a group of captive women settlers - and forged his own destiny as a hero in the making. Now he's taking on his biggest challenge yet: riding shotgun on a wagon train across the hostile Nebraska Territory. It's a treacherous trail, and it's not long before the young Texan is earning his paycheck by fighting off a tribe of bloodthirsty Sioux. But the real test lies in the journey ahead - a genuine ride to hell and back, from the Rocky Mountains to Sante Fe and all the way home, that will make Long John O'Malley either a living legend...or a dead one.
©2018 Dusty Richards (P)2018 Recorded Books
Trail to Cottonwood Falls
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Proving that the grand Western tradition is alive and well, over four million Ralph Compton books are now in print. After years of driving cattle and wearing a ranger's badge, disaffected Texan Ed Wright retires - intent on drowning his sorrows with whiskey. But then, widowed rancher Unita Nance - a mighty fine woman, any cowboy would agree - storms into Rosie's Shamrock Saloon and carts Ed's inebriated, six-foot frame out into the sunshine with a wheelbarrow. She has one last job for him, and she won't take no for an answer. After sobering up, Ed bends under the pressure of Unita's charming persuasion and reluctantly gets back in the saddle. He prays that this will be his final cattle drive, and doesn't realize that scheming desperados are out to ensure it.
©2007 The Estate of Ralph Compton (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC
A Good Day to Kill
Summary
In the thrilling new saga from Western Heritage and Spur award-winning author Dusty Richards, Chet Byrnes stands his ground - with his courage, guns, and blood. For Chet Byrnes, building a ranching empire means adding new land, hiring good men, finding water, and trying new breeds of cattle. But outlaws and Tuscon's idle rich want to take it all away - and Arizona just may be too lawless to stop it. So while the Byrnes family expands its reach, Chet must do his job hunting down outlaws on either side of the border. Chet's cowboys prove to be tireless fighters, going up against former Mexican military men, a powerful family with bad in their blood. Then Chet takes on the most dangerous risk of all: a bloody, all-out shooting war - with everything to lose, and one last enemy to kill....
©2015 Dusty Richards (P)2015 Recorded Books
Range War of Callie County
Summary
Charlie Brackeen owns the big ranch that takes up the entire north end of drought-stricken Callie County. When he pushes his B-Bar-M cattle south of their own range, it’s no mistake - it’s a hostile takeover, enforced by Sheriff Alex Woodbridge, the tough, one-eyed former Texas Ranger who’s in Brackeen’s pocket. They want the small ranchers leaderless and isolated so they can be picked off one by one and forced to sell their land. They just didn’t count on Jed Mahan. Jed is a small-time rancher who wants nothing more than to raise his cattle in peace and find comfort at the table and in the bed of the alluring Mrs. Gabriella Contras. As the county’s independent ranchers come together, though, they look to him for leadership. Jed’s reluctant at first, but when he’s blamed for the murder of his neighbor’s son, he has no choice but to step up. Woodbridge and Brackeen won’t waste time on something as trivial as a murder trial. Jed has two options - convince by-the-book county judge Neemore Davis of his innocence...or put Woodbridge in the ground before the old sheriff does the same thing to him. In the dust and heat of a wild South Texas summer, it won’t take much of a spark to set off a range war in Callie County. Please Note: This title has previously been published by another publisher under the title Brackeen's Law.
©2019 Oghma Creative Media (P)2019 Oghma Creative Media
The Horse Creek Incident
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Dusty Richards' Westerns are visceral portraits of America's past - a time when ruthless land-grabbing reddened the plains with blood. In this 2007 Spur Award winner, cattle baron Rupart MacDavis wants to bury the ranchers of Horse Creek, Montana. With the local law in his pocket, MacDavis brutalizes the town - until Herschel Baker begins showing the people how to fight back.
©2006 Dusty Richards (P)2007 Recorded Books
A Bride for Gil
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Gil Slatter's quick on the draw and has a head for running a ranch - but he's also a lonely man with nothing more than a cot in the bunkhouse at the TXY Ranch to call home. When the ranch's foreman drops dead of a heart attack and the owner picks Gil to take his place, his entire world turns upside down. One day life is simple. The next he's running the entire outfit. The old foreman's passing means more than just a new job on the ranch, though. He also leaves behind a daughter, a willful young woman named Kate. When Gil drops by to pay his respects, she shocks him with a proposal of marriage...and ends up stealing his heart. So starts the western adventure of a lifetime. Between wild horses, outlaws, rustlers, an ambitious young landowner with a mean streak, and the flirtatious, scheming wife of the ranch's owner, it's no easy task Gil faces. But with his new bride beside him, he'll take the TXY to new heights of success...or die trying!
©2015 Dusty Richards (P)2017 Dusty Richards
Deuces Wild
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Dusty Richards bases his scores of Western novels on extensive research on the Old West. With an unflinchingview of the violence and cruelty that marked both sides of the Indian conflicts, he spins the riveting tale of Apache scout Deuces. Unjustly condemned for murder, he escapes his guard and disappears into the wilderness. Now hot on his trail is a U.S. Marshal determined to catch Deuces, no matter what the cost.
©2004 Dusty Richards (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC
The Pride of Texas
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With the authenticity of a real cowboy, best-selling author Dusty Richards weaves a moving coming-of-age story set against the cattle trails and open vistas of South Texas. Twin brothers Andrew and Jackson Franks have lived and worked under the iron fist of their father, Prior, for as long as they can remember. But when a petty household argument turns violent, and Prior shoots and kills their mother before turning the gun upon himself, the boys are left with nothing but each other and the family's hardscrabble South Texas ranch. Andrew's a planner and a thinker, while Jackson's a workhorse with a stubborn streak a couple miles wide. They've both got dreams of climbing out of the dust to become real Texas cattleman, but they'll need a hell of a lot more than hope to make it happen. They'll need luck, too, a whole damn heap of it - and it comes in a form they never imagined. Texas law - enforced by the crotchety county judge - says they need a guardian, and the judge finds a cousin from Arkansas, a widow woman named Sophie Grenada, willing to come to Texas to take the two pigheaded boys in hand. When she arrives, though, she's nothing like what any of them expect. Sophie's smart, tough, worldly, more than a little sassy...and most surprising of all, she cares. Through Indian raids, range wars, and the tough business of building a real, working ranch, they form an unbreakable bond - two boys thrust into a man's world before their time, and a woman who loves and cares for them as her own. If they can avoid a fetched arrow or a .45 slug in the back, with Sophie's help, Andrew and Jackson might just build the empire they're hoping for, and fulfill their destiny to become The Pride of Texas.
©2017 Dusty Richards (P)2018 Oghma Creative Media
Gold in the Sun
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A drunken plan to make some quick money with two friends landed drifter Whit Ralston in the Yuma Territorial Prison - the worst prison in Arizona. Now he's doing hard time in the inferno the inmates call the Hell Hole, counting the days until his release. He's vowed never to do anything so stupid again, but that becomes a hard promise to keep when his crazy cellmate starts talking about a load of stolen gold stashed up in the mountains. When he falls for a beautiful, blue-eyed lady of the evening named Oleta, who seems as taken with him as he with her, he realizes he might have a new reason to run some risks. Once he gets out of prison, Whit starts making plans - but he's going to have to make better choices about just who to believe in order for his latest scheme to hit pay dirt. People say a lot of things, especially when it's money on the line. In the Old West, though, following the law is never as important as trusting the right people.
©2017 Oghma Creative Media (P)2017 Oghma Creative Media
The Sundown Chaser
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In this third novel in Dusty Richards' Spur Award-winning Herschel Baker series, a rawhide-tough horse thief rides up from Mexico with a lightning-quick draw that leaves a trail of dead criminals in his wake. His son Herschel now wears a badge, but many years have passed since he left his boy to chase down sunsets.
©2009 Dusty Richards (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
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Arizona Territory [Dramatized Adaptation]
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Western Heritage and Spur award-winning author Dusty Richards tells the thrilling saga of Chet Byrnes, a man who brought the spirit of Texas into Arizona Territory — and the guns to back it up.... Chet Byrnes has built a ranching empire from the ground up. And he’s defended it with his sweat, blood, and a ragtag band of ranch-hand fighters. Now a beautiful young Spanish widow comes into Chet’s life, just as he starts off in search of a lost cattle drive. The search leads into the eye of a sprawling, violent storm. Chet and his men — and his seductive new woman — end up on a wild ride through Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas, where authorities want to confiscate the beeves for trespassing. With Indians, outlaws and an oppressive government crossing their path, Chet is on a cowboy’s honeymoon: fighting and shooting all the way back home. Performed by Dylan Lynch, Scott McCormick, Helen Pafumi, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Steve Wannall, Nora Achrati, Michael Glenn, Casie Platt, Nanna Ingvarsson, Jefferson A Russell, Yasmin Tuazon, KenYatta Rogers, Michael John Casey, Alejandro Ruiz, Christopher Scheeren, Ken Jackson, Eva Wilhelm, Deidra Starnes, Laura C Harris, Bill Gillett, Lawrence Redmond, Tim Getman, J W Rone, James Lewis, Evan Casey, Jacob Yeh, Terence Aselford, Tia Shearer, Kevin Alan Brown, Elizabeth Jernigan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Jonathon Church, Colleen Delany, Steven Carpenter, Nick DePinto, Robbie Gay, Drew Kopas, Eric Messner, Danny Gavigan, David Jourdan, Eric Singdahlsen, Nathanial Perry, Mort Shelby.
©2015 Dusty Richards (P)2016 Graphic Audio, LLC
Montana Revenge
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Two-time Spur Award winner Dusty Richards, author of Deuces Wild, is widely celebrated for his exceptional Westerns. Montana Revenge is the engrossing tale of a lynching - and the man who will put it all on the line to make sure true justice is served. Herschel Baker's new role as the sheriff of Yellowstone County is a far cry from his previous life as a rancher. As sheriff, Herschel is sworn to uphold the law, and that means butting heads with those who don't want to playby the rules. So when a cowboy named Billy Hanks is hung from a tree with the words "Hoss Steeler" pinned to his chest, Herschel must find those responsible.
©2007 Dusty Richards (P)2008 Recorded Books, LLC
Massacre at Whip Station
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From Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards comes a blistering new novel in his O'Malley saga, trailing one family's epic struggle to live out their dreams on the deadly battleground of the Texas Frontier... Whip Station, a critical stop on the Butterfield stagecoach line, is dead smack in the middle of no-man's land. The lawless call it an easy target. Joe O'Malley calls it home. If anybody can tame a wild, violent territory, it's the seasoned frontiersman. So can his family, who have with the same pride and honor coursing through their veins. Helping to plant roots is his son Jackson, a former wrangler married to a steadying force of nature. Joe's grandchildren have their own brand of grit. The boy - a firebrand with a knife. The girl - book-smart and wicked-wise. But Whip Station is also hunting ground for Mexican revolutionaries, savage Indians, post-war renegade Confederates, and the deadliest outlaws who ever drew a breath. It's time for the O'Malleys to take aim. With a rawhide-tough will to survive, they're banding together to protect their future against the most savage odds imaginable.
©2020 Dusty Richards (P)2020 Recorded Books
Sharpshooter
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Western Heritage and Western Writers of America Spur Award-winning author Dusty Richards spins a thrilling new tale in the epic Byrnes family saga.... In the brutal, unforgiving wastes of the Arizona desert, Chet Byrnes built a cattle ranching empire with his bare hands, steel will, and a fast draw. As the US marshal, he risks his life to bring law to a lawless land. When a new railroad route is planned to pass through Navajo territory, Chet fights to get the Indians a contract to supply the locomotives with coal. But the corrupt politicians in Tucson and D.C. have other ideas. The coal contract means millions, and the ruthless Tucson Ring will do anything to get it - even if it means killing a US marshal. Battling bandits, the railroad, and a corrupt gang of millionaires, Chet won't back down until the desert is painted red with blood.
©2018 Dusty Richards (P)2018 Recorded Books
The Texas Badge
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Bank robbery. Jailbreak. Massacre. Alone, each would send good folks reeling. But when all three occur in the same night in the same small South Texas town leaving no eyewitnesses behind, it could be the end of the world. Saddler County Sheriff Dell Hoffman is charged with bringing the perpetrators of these horrific crimes to justice, but even the toughest and most cunning lawman in Texas has his limits. With nothing to go on but five bloody bodies, a cracked safe, and an empty jail, Dell works the fringe of his sleepy western town - the forgotten, the invisible, those who often see without being seen. The more he learns, though, the more he wishes he could forget. In search of the truth, Dell finds himself pulled into a dark world of murder, deception, and brutality the likes of which he never imagined. Will he solve the most heinous crime in Texas history? Or will Dell's drive for justice lead him to an even greater tragedy for both himself and those he cares for most?
©2016 Dusty Richards (P)2016 Oghma Creative Media
Between Hell and Texas
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Spur Award winner and recipient of the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award, Dusty Richards pens authentic Western tales that blaze to the top of best seller lists nationwide. Between Hell and Texas continues the Byrnes family saga, picking up with Chet striking out on a dangerous trail from Texas to Arizona in the hopes of reversing his family’s diminishing fortunes.
©2011 Dusty Richards (P)2012 Recorded Books
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Texas Blood Feud [Dramatized Adaptation]
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The Byrnes family came to Texas and carved out a place on the land. Three generations who paid in blood and treasure. Children carried off by Comanche. A brother lost to war. Lives shattered. Chet Byrnes was trying to hold the ranch together through one more winter for one more cattle drive when he hanged three horse thieves this side of the Red River - and a blood feud erupted.... A family wants revenge - no matter how just the hangings were. From attacks on the Byrnes clan to the killing of livestock, the feud leads to one vicious murder - and then another. But amidst the violence and pain, a man who has seen his youth slip by is about to get one last chance at life and love...If only Chet can end the war he started...If only he can survive this land and the killers who want him dead - at any price... Performed by Dylan Lynch, Scott McCormick, Casie Platt, Kimberly Gilbert, Matthew McGee, David Jourdan, Patrick Bussink, Eric Messner, Liam McCormick, Laura C Harris, KenYatta Rogers, Scott Graham, Matthew Keenan, Steve Wannall, Andy Brownstein, Steven Carpenter, Colleen Delany, Helen Pafumi, Sasha Olinick, Christopher Scheeren, Eric Singdahlsen, David Harris, Yasmin Tuazon, Terence Aselford, Michael John Casey, Thomas Penny, Ken Jackson, David Coyne, Nick DePinto, Bradley Smith, Christopher Graybill, Evan Casey, Jeff Allin, Faith Potts, Tim Carlin, Matthew Bassett, Nanette Savard, Katy Carkuff, Nora Achrati, Gary Telles, Drew Kopas, Richard Rohan, Mort Shelby.
©2009 Dusty Richards (P)2014 Graphic Audio, LLC
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Valley Of Bones [Dramatized Adaptation]
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A landmark feat of innovation is about to change the American West forever. With electric cables stretching from the Colorado River to Gallup, New Mexico, a new telegraph system will connect the settlers of the Arizona Territory to the rest of the country — a dream come true for rancher Chet Byrnes and his family. But laying 400 miles of steel wire can be a deadly task. Chet has to face off with hired henchmen who would kill to sabotage the project. Chet’s nephew JD has his hands full with cutthroat rustlers on the Mexican border. And a pair of outlaws from Chet’s past have come seeking revenge for the hangings of the Reynolds clan — revenge that can only be paid with Byrnes family blood.... Performed by Scott McCormick, Helen Pafumi, Steve Wannall, Alejandro Ruiz, Dani Stoller, Matthew Bassett, Nathanial Perry, Eric Messner, Matthew Schleigh, Danny Gavigan, Eric Singdahlsen, Jacob Yeh, Jonathon Church, James Lewis, Ken Jackson, Laura C Harris, Alyssa Wilmoth, Dylan Lynch, Todd Scofield, Colleen Delany, Richard Rohan, Casie Platt, Jillian Levine-Sisson, Nick DePinto, Michael Glenn, Brian Hemmingsen, Christopher Graybill, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Jonathan Lee Taylor, Eva Wilhelm, Elizabeth Jernigan, Michael John Casey, Paul Reisman, Steven Carpenter, Peter Holdway, Cameron McNary, James J Johnson, Terence Aselford, Andy Clemence, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Amanda Forstrom, Nanette Savard.
©2017 Dusty Richards (P)2017 Graphic Audio, LLC
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A Good Day To Kill [Dramatized Adaptation]
Summary
In the thrilling new saga from Western Heritage and Spur award-winning author Dusty Richards, Chet Byrnes stands his ground - with his courage, guns, and blood. For Chet Byrnes, building a ranching empire means adding new land, hiring good men, finding water, and trying new breeds of cattle. But outlaws and Tuscon's idle rich want to take it all away - and Arizona just may be too lawless to stop it. So while the Byrnes family expands its reach, Chet must do his job hunting down outlaws on either side of the border. Chet's cowboys prove to be tireless fighters, going up against former Mexican military men, a powerful family with bad in their blood. Then Chet takes on the most dangerous risk of all: a bloody, all-out shooting war - with everything to lose, and one last enemy to kill.... Performed by Dylan Lynch, Scott McCormick, Tracy Olivera, Steve Wannall, Christopher Scheeren, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Nora Achrati, Michael Glenn, Joel David Santner, KenYatta Rogers, Nanette Savard, David Coyne, Matt McGee, Steven Carpenter, Gary Telles, Jonathon Church, Terence Aselford, Tim Carlin, Matt Schleigh, Tim Pabon, Eric Singdahlsen, Andy Brownstein, Drew Kopas, Casie Platt, Elizabeth Jernigan, Evan Casey, David Harris, Patrick Bussink, Yasmin Tuazon, Michael John Casey, Nick DePinto, Alyssa Wilmoth, Laura C Harris, James Konicek, Christopher Graybill, Kimberly Gilbert, Deidra Starnes, Ken Jackson, Dawn Ursula, Sasha Olinick, Tara Giordano, Colleen Delany, Ren Kasey.
©2015 Dusty Richards (P)2015 Graphic Audio, LLC