Forty Guns West: Audiobook
Book 4 of the First Mountain Man series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Forty Guns West audiobook runs 8.7 hours unabridged, narrated by J. Rodney Turner (about 5.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.7 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.7 hours, it is shorter than 71% of the 13,430 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on First Mountain Man
This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 29.4 hours before it; books 1 to 10 run 88.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The First Mountain Man | 10.3 hrs |
| 2 | Blood on the Divide | 9.6 hrs |
| 3 | Absaroka Ambush | 9.4 hrs |
| 4 | Forty Guns West | 8.7 hrs |
| 5 | Cheyenne Challenge | 10.2 hrs |
| 6 | Preacher and The Mountain Caesar | 9.9 hrs |
| 7 | Blackfoot Messiah | 9.2 hrs |
| 8 | Preacher | 7.6 hrs |
| 9 | Preacher’s Peace | 7.5 hrs |
| 10 | Preacher's Justice | 6.2 hrs |
More narrated by J. Rodney Turner
J. Rodney Turner narrates 21 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 194 hours in all.
About as long, on the Historical (Fiction) shelf
2,270 Historical (Fiction) audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Forty Guns West is book 4 of William W. Johnstone's First Mountain Man series: a 8.7-hour unabridged recording, read by J. Rodney Turner, released July 30, 2019, on the Historical (Fiction) and Westerns & War shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.7 hrs
- Narrated by
- J. Rodney Turner
- Released
- July 30, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Historical (Fiction), Westerns & War
- Series
- First Mountain Man #4
- ISBN
- 9781515933656
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Forty Guns West audiobook?
Forty Guns West runs 8.7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.8 hours.
Is the Forty Guns West audiobook free?
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Who narrates Forty Guns West?
Forty Guns West is narrated by J. Rodney Turner.