
Westerns usually take place on the American Frontier during the period between the end of the Civil War and the Massacre at Wounded Knee. They have long been a staple of pulp fiction and Hollywood.
Radio Westerns in this collection include:
- American Trail – featuring true stories from American Western History
- Bobby Benson and the B-Bar-B Riders – Juvenile show with a Western Twist
- Cisco Kid – The Robin Hood of the West with sidekick Pancho (Mel Blanc)
- Death Valley Days – Rare Western show takes place in the hottest, driest region of the West
- Dr. Six Gun – Friend and physician in the lawless 1870s
- Fort Laramie – From the creators of Gunsmoke, starring Raymond Burr
Frontier Gentlemen – British Correspondent travels and reports about his adventures in the West
- Frontier Town – Tough guy lawyer enforces the law in the tough town Dos Rios
- Gunsmoke – One of the best radio shows with gruff Matt Dillon
- Have Gun Will Travel – Gunfighter Paladin could wine and dine fine ladies and shoot with the best of them
- Hawk Larabee – Tells the stories of the people in a 1840s Texas town
- Lightning Jim – Rare Western Radio Show about “How the West was Won”
- Lone Ranger – “Hi Oh Silver, Away!” Long Lived and popular western radio show with The Lone Ranger and his sidekick Tonto
- Luke Slaughter – Featuring Civil War cavalryman turned Arizona cattleman
- Red Ryder – Popular Newspaper comic hero and “America’s famous fighting cowboy,”
- Roy Rogers – “The King of the Cowboys” with “The Queen of the West” Dale Evans, “The Smartest Horse in the Movies” Trigger, and “The Wonder Dog” Bullet
- Six Shooter – Jimmy Stewart stars in this excellent old time radio Western
- Sky King – Part Cowboy Part Aviator in this juvenile western radio show
- Straight Arrow – Mild Mannered rancher turned warrior with a secret cave
- Tom Mix –Real-Life cowboy Tom Mix sings, ropes, and rodeos
- Wild Bill Hickok – With Sidekick Jingles fights bad guys in the American West