Summer of the Star
A Western Story
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Narrated by:
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Traber Burns
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By:
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Johnny D. Boggs
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Recalling his early life as a young cowboy, 62-year-old Madison Carter remembers his first love: Her name was Estrella O'Sullivan, and he met her the summer he turned 16 back in 1873.
The summer of 1873 marked Madison's last drive up what is now called the Chisholm Trail. It was the first time he tasted oysters and the only time he pinned on a badge. It was the summer of longhorns, miserable heat, friendship and betrayal, and murder. In the end it was the summer the whole world came crumbling down on the United States, and Madison's world crashed, too.
The summer of 1873 was the year Madison watched a bunch of men die. One of them was a man he killed, an encounter one never forgets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good western
- By Richard on 01-02-08
By: Ralph Compton
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Beneath A Dakota Cross
- Fortunes of the Black Hills, Book 1
- By: Stephen Bly
- Narrated by: Jerry Sciarrio
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
When locals threaten the lives and property of his family. Brazos abandons his Texas homestead for a new ranch in the West he has seen in a dream. It's a war against corrupt lawmen, wild outlaws, and bitter winter weather as Brazos wrestles with his newfound hunger for gold and the burning desire to be reunited with his family. He must test himself against the untamed frontier, confront the greedy miners who try his Christian convictions, and find the new home God showed him Beneath a Dakota Cross.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Family Friendly Western . . . Great Listen
- By Debbie on 01-01-17
By: Stephen Bly
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A Man Called Justice
- Silent Justice, Book 1
- By: John Deacon
- Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 308
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 308
Justice is a drifter with no fear and no memory, trailed by a violent past. Nora is a beautiful widow bravely raising her young son on an isolated New Mexican ranch. When a ruthless cattle baron pushes longhorns into the valley, Justice vows to protect Nora and her boy. But how can he succeed against thirty hired guns… including the four outlaws who left him for dead?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Home run!
- By Charlie on 08-30-22
By: John Deacon
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Epitaph
- A Novel of the O.K. Corral
- By: Mary Doria Russell
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 19 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 428
A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands.... That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26, when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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SO GOOD!
- By Cait on 06-30-15
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It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own
- Code of the West #1
- By: Stephen Bly
- Narrated by: Jerry Sciarrio
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
Pepper Paige is tired of her life as a dance-hall girl, and tired of fearing Jordan Beckett, a violent patron who has turned his attentions on her. When a stagecoach wrecks and an injured woman dies in her room, Pepper assumes her identity and leaves town.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A western with a twist
- By Jean on 03-19-14
By: Stephen Bly
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Death Rides a Chestnut Mare
- By: Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Waylaid by a pack of murdering outlaws, Daniel Strange's lifeless body is left dangling at the end of a rope. Now, a mysterious gunslinger is on the vengeance trail, packing Strange's trademark twin Colts, and answering to the same name. With fiery green eyes and a temper to match, he won't stop until every last man who killed Strange shares the same fate. And as each bullet finds its mark, his victims will die never knowing the truth: that Daniel Strange may be dead and buried, but his daughter is alive - and killing....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen
- By Micah Balch on 01-22-19
By: Ralph Compton
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Strong Convictions
- Emmett Strong Westerns Book 1
- By: GP Hutchinson
- Narrated by: Alex Zonn
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
In 1876 the seemingly impossible happened in San Antonio, Texas - Emmett Strong, a prodigy of a pistolero, accidentally shot his own young wife in a showdown gone awry. Five years later, death again visits Emmett's family, and now - want to or not - he's going to have to overcome his reluctance to draw his six-gun if he's to catch and bring to justice the crazed gunman who murdered his brother.
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2 out of 5 stars
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lost interest.
- By neal berry on 05-15-19
By: GP Hutchinson
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Outlaw Town
- A Ralph Compton Novel
- By: David Robbins
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Chancy Gantry and Ollie Teal are honest cowpunchers, riding herd on 1,500 longhorns from Texas to Kansas. Their trail boss, Lucas Stout, is tough but fair. He’s never lost a hand on a drive and doesn’t aim to start now. So when a cowhand needs a sawbones badly, Stout sends Chancy and Ollie to escort the man to a town called Prosperity, of which neither of them has ever heard. At first glance, the town looks deserted - but the saloon is full. Chancy and Ollie are about to discover that some towns are a lot easier to ride into than to ride out of....
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5 out of 5 stars
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OUTLAW TOWN
- By Danny Harr on 08-16-24
By: David Robbins
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Gunman's Rhapsody
- By: Robert B. Parker
- Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 67
It is the winter of 1879, and Dodge city has lost its snap. Thirty-one-year-old Wyatt Earp, assistant city marshal, loads his wife and all they own into a wagon, and goes with two of his brothers and their women to Tombstone, Arizona, land of the silver mines. There Earp becomes deputy sheriff, meeting up with the likes of Doc Holliday, Clay Allison and Bat Masterson as well as finding the love of his life, showgirl Josie Marcus.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Once of the best Wyatt Earp stories I have read
- By D. Abbott on 06-02-12
By: Robert B. Parker
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Hard Country
- A Novel
- By: Michael McGarrity
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,610
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,371
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,355
National best-selling author and New Mexico native Michael McGarrity takes listeners to the wild territory of the late 19th-century American Southwest for this epic tale. After the deaths of his wife and brother, John Kerney gives up his West Texas ranch and heads south in search of a new home. Soon Kerney is offered work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory - a job that will forever change his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard Country lives up to it's title.
- By mar on 12-14-12
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High Country Bride
- By: Linda Lael Miller
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 713
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 638
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 633
One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good book but not what was in the summary:
- By Zandra Zavalza on 01-30-16
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Hell’s Riders
- By: Ralph Cotton
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack thought he’d seen every despicable act of cruelty and murder any man could exact on another. He thought wrong. When he stumbles upon the butchered remains of a scalp-taking massacre, he’s choked with disgust. So Burrack teams up with veteran Sheriff Boyd Tackett, who’s more than willing to help bring these vile rats to justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story.
- By Cody on 01-20-16
By: Ralph Cotton
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The Chuckwagon Trail
- Chuckwagon Trail Western series, Book 1
- By: J.A. Johnstone, William W. Johnstone
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 336
Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun, which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes. Mac can hold his own with any cowboy twice his age. At least until the real showdown begins . . .
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5 out of 5 stars
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Need a different narrator
- By Tom on 04-29-18
By: J.A. Johnstone, and others
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Demon's Pass
- By: Robert Vaughn, Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
Parker Stanley's family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister. Then cowboy Clay Springer rides to the rescue - and comes up with an idea. He's got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he's short on funds for supplies. He knows that Parker managed to hold on to his family's savings, so he suggests a 50-50 partnership. With a three-wagon, seven-man team, Parker and Clay will traverse the barren land, but out in the wilderness, Parker's sister needs saving - and he has vowed to find her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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DEMONS PASS
- By Danny Harr on 10-15-24
By: Robert Vaughn, and others
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The Shopkeeper
- A Steve Dancy Tale
- By: James D. Best
- Narrated by: Rusty Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
In 1879, Steve Dancy sells his New York shop and ventures west to explore and write a journal about his adventures. Though he's not looking for trouble, Dancy's infatuation with another man's wife soon embroils him in a deadly feud with Sean Washburn, a Nevada silver baron. Infuriated by the outrages of two hired thugs, the shopkeeper kills both men in an impulsive street fight.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well written western!
- By J. C. Edmond on 06-11-10
By: James D. Best
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A Braver Man
- By: Royal Wade Kimes
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 211
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 182
Hawk Haynes ruled from his heart, but stayed alive by using his instincts. Hawk was on his way to start a new life in Texas when he runs into burned out wagons. He finds families slaughtered, the men killed, the women raped, and killed. Hawk Haynes had just introduced himself to Southwest Texas. Hawk had been deeded land just northwest of Rawlins for his services in taking care of Ted Rawlins and his wife until their death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Over the top
- By Richard on 02-27-10
By: Royal Wade Kimes