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Explore the Longarm series by Tabor Evans with books in order and short summaries of Deputy Marshal Custis Long’s cases across the American frontier.

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101

An archaeological expedition excavates ruins in the Sonora Desert, and Longarm is assigned to protect it. Bandits, conflict with Native people, and rival scientists make guarding the dig more complicated than he expects.

102

Sent into Indian Territory to help clear the way for a new railroad, Longarm encounters an enemy from his past. The appearance of the Apache Kid turns an official assignment into a personal confrontation.

103

Chauncey Mahoney, known as the Stovespit Kid, escapes custody in California. Longarm tracks the fugitive into San Francisco's Barbary Coast, where pursuing a wanted man takes him deep into the city's criminal world.

104

Mexican authorities hold five suspects they may execute unless Longarm identifies the bandit known as the Desert Eel. He heads for the border to find the man he once arrested, facing hostile officials and gunmen.

105

Longarm learns that the Coulter gang plans to rob a gold train. Using a false identity, he joins the outlaws and tries to warn the sheriff while keeping his undercover role from being discovered.

106

Longarm takes the name Long Tom and works as a cowhand to investigate a cattle swindle. Riding from Dodge City onto the Ogallala Trail, he must uncover the scheme while keeping his identity concealed.

107

Painter Maxwell Windsor disappears near the Little Bighorn battlefield along with valuable paintings. Longarm investigates for Windsor’s worried daughter, but repeated attacks on the marshal suggest someone wants both the artist and his work to stay missing.

108

Longarm on Deadman's Trail

by Tabor Evans

1987

A deputy's murder sends Longarm after Bloodhand, a gunman who marks his victims' foreheads with a bloody X. The trail leads into Indian Territory, where the marshal faces an outlaw surrounded by other dangerous men.

110

A gunman copying dime-novel outlaw Black Jack Slade begins killing along the Overland Trail. After two army officers die, Longarm is sent to stop the imitator before his campaign claims more victims.

111

Longarm heads to a quiet New Mexico town threatened by a killer called the Hook. Armed with a shotgun and knives, the outlaw presents a danger the marshal must stop before the violence spreads.

112

The Great Costello escapes execution and leaves the hangman dead on his own gallows. Longarm follows the fugitive into Mexico, where rebels and rurales make recapturing the slippery train robber a dangerous task.

113

Geronimo's raiding party retreats into Mexico, expecting the border to put it beyond American law. Longarm gives up the protection of his badge and crosses after them, pursuing his quarry without his usual authority.

114

Longarm and the Quiet Guns

by Tabor Evans

1988

Longarm investigates a dead outlaw in Salem, Texas, but the residents refuse to explain what happened. With the town keeping its secrets, he must decide whether a woman with plans of her own can be trusted.

115

The army asks Longarm to solve a paymaster robbery committed six years earlier. To reach the suspected thief, he may have to join a renegade sergeant's ranks and investigate from inside the man's outfit.

116

After shooting a United States senator's bodyguard, Longarm faces trial in Washington. The marshal must contend with politicians as an encounter involving his gun turns into a legal fight far from his usual territory.

117

Sent away from Denver after clashing with local lawmen, Longarm investigates unrest among Native people in Utah. His supposed vacation leads into the schemes of wealthy landowners and hired gunmen who want him dead.

118

Longarm in the Big Burnout

by Tabor Evans

1988

The murder of a young woman Longarm knows sends him after her killer with revenge on his mind. Following the trail into a violent range war puts his personal anger at odds with his duties as a lawman.

119

After making enemies again, Longarm takes an assignment leading Mexican federal officers in pursuit of a band of Yaqui fighters. The mission brings him into the landscape and Yaqui culture of the southern Arizona region.

120

Sent to Colorado to investigate the shooting of two soldiers, Longarm follows a trail to former Army officer Tom Ferris. Ferris is confined in a private hospital, complicating the marshal's search for answers about the shootings.

121

A blocked road traps Longarm in Thunderbird Canyon, a silver-mining town. With residents and miners stranded alongside unidentified members of the White Hood Gang, he must find the outlaws while everyone is cut off from escape.

122

A visit to Nuevo Laredo Prison ends with Longarm behind bars while a wanted killer goes free. A woman's help gets him out, and their pursuit carries them into the dangerous streets of Mexico City.

123

Longarm guards Aurora Stone, a witness against horse thief and swindler Sid Porter. When the trial ends without a conviction, gunmen keep pursuing the marshal and Aurora, leaving him to discover why they remain targets.

124

Johnny Danfield leaves lists of his victims pinned to the bodies of the people he hangs. Longarm must stop the murderer before more names become corpses, knowing the killer's next noose could be meant for him.

125

Settlers have been murdered, and a lynch mob blames the Cheyenne. Convinced they are innocent, Longarm challenges the accusations, putting his own life at risk as the crowd threatens to hang him for taking their side.

126

Ned Larson leaves bodies across Montana and challenges Longarm after killing another lawman. Longarm is ready to face him, but orders to bring the murderer back alive make a deadly confrontation even harder to manage.

127

Retired Texas sheriff Gus Hackett is killed, and local authorities dismiss his death as an accident. Longarm believes a respected lawman's life ended in murder, driving him to challenge that verdict and pursue the person responsible.

129

Confederate bonds bring Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long into an investigation that takes him to Galveston. The assignment follows a financial mystery connected to the old Confederacy, carrying the western lawman into an unfamiliar coastal setting.

130

Bull Kestell and his timber pirates are tearing through California's redwood country, cutting trees and murdering Native Americans. Longarm must confront a gang whose destruction threatens both the forest and the people living within it.

131

Longarm and the Vigilantes

by Tabor Evans

1989

Longarm rides into town to stop a vigilante committee bent on killing cattle rustlers. A brutal beating leaves him dependent on a woman's care, turning his effort to uphold the law into a personal struggle for revenge.

132

In Arizona's Sonora Desert, scarce water already makes survival difficult for Papago people and ranchers. As relations between them turn bloody, Longarm must intervene before the violence becomes a massacre in the unforgiving desert landscape.

133

Longarm in the Clearwaters

by Tabor Evans

1989

Longarm discovers saddlebags loaded with stolen loot, giving him an unexpected opening against a band of thieves. The find draws him into an effort to capture the entire gang rather than settle for one criminal.

134

A violent dispute over the Rio Arriba territory draws Longarm to Santa Fe. With federal marshals falsely accused of wrongdoing, he must clear their names and catch the killers exploiting the conflict over the land.

135

Longarm goes to Pine Hill, Wyoming, to collect a fugitive and finds a frightened town. Landowner Brian Levinson is running for sheriff, seeking control of the law as well as the property he already dominates.

136

Outlaw Sweet William escapes jail after killing two deputies and heads toward Black Hawk. Longarm takes up the pursuit, determined to catch a fugitive whose bid for freedom has already left a bloody trail behind him.

137

Deputy Marshal Custis Long is assigned to track a gang of stagecoach robbers whose attacks have turned murderous. Recovering a fortune in stolen U.S. Treasury vouchers adds urgency to his hunt for the men responsible.

138

Longarm faces outlaw Jethro Markham, whose gang has been trained to think carefully while committing crimes. Taking on organized criminals who use their heads forces the marshal to reckon with cunning as well as gunfire.

139

Longarm investigates reports of a ghost whose victims die from real bullets. His skepticism becomes a matter of survival when the elusive gunman begins stalking him, turning the search for an explanation into a dangerous hunt.

140

Longarm and the Lost Mine

by Tabor Evans

1990

Violent bank robber Jason Tanner escapes after Longarm once put him behind bars. Seeking gold hidden in an Arizona mine, Tanner also wants the marshal dead, bringing treasure hunting and personal revenge into the same pursuit.

141

Longarm and the Pawnee Kid

by Tabor Evans

1990

With a hanging looming, Longarm escapes from the Pawnee Wells jail and joins forces with an unstable companion. Getting away means relying on a man whose apparent wish to die makes him an unpredictable ally.

142

Longarm wants to avenge Marshal Ramage's murder, but finding the killer proves harder than drawing his gun. His pursuit is further complicated by a town full of prostitutes who distract him from the man he seeks.

143

Longarm in the Osage Strip

by Tabor Evans

1990

Longarm enters the Osage Strip to find Adeline Younger Dalton, who may lead him to wanted members of the James-Younger gang. Tribal police, an unpredictable woman and a contract on his life complicate the search.

144

Longarm in the Red Desert

by Tabor Evans

1990

A string of murders suggests that the legendary Red Sash Gang has returned to terrorize the West. Longarm takes up the chase, facing real bodies behind a story that once seemed to belong to frontier myth.

145

After becoming caught up in a bank robbery in Aurora, Colorado, Longarm travels into Arkansas. There he encounters a violent land dispute between white settlers and Native Americans, placing another dangerous conflict in his path.

146

The people of Snowshoe trap Ute people in an abandoned mine, planning to kill them in retaliation for an attack. Longarm must hold the angry townspeople back before their demand for revenge becomes a massacre.

147

Longarm is sent to Washington Territory to bring escaped killer Kelly Sisson back for hanging. In Moses, dead and wounded lawmen and Sisson's alliance with a powerful local man turn the prisoner transfer into dangerous business.

148

Consuela carries a treasure map tattooed on her body, drawing Longarm into a search for riches. But getting close to her comes with deadly risks, turning the valuable clue into a dangerous complication for the marshal.

149

Longarm poses as a newlywed with a lady friend to investigate thieves looting Ancestral Puebloan artifacts at Mesa Verde. The undercover assignment brings them into a profitable trafficking operation that puts both of them at risk.

150

The Warren gang has escaped from jail and returned to spread fear through a Montana town. Longarm takes on the outlaws, facing a group determined to keep the entire community under threat of violence.

151

Longarm arrives to transport killer K.C. Caswell, only to find that his prisoner has escaped. Following Caswell’s victims along a New Mexico railroad line brings the marshal into a confrontation with a former partner.

153

Longarm joins Sheriff Gil Blowser’s posse to track highwaymen, unaware that the sheriff uses his badge to cover criminal dealings. The pursuit becomes a trap when the lawmen and outlaws prove to be the same people.

154

Sent to collect Thad Miller, Longarm reaches El Paso to find dead men and an escaped prisoner. The killer has crossed into Mexico, forcing the marshal to pursue him where his American badge carries little authority.

155

After surviving an assassin’s attack, Longarm discovers that outlaws operating through the Phoenix post office have marked him for death. He investigates a criminal network using a federal institution as cover while its killers pursue him.

156

A Wells Fargo robbery and an old friend’s murder put Longarm on the trail of the Cheyenne Kid. Kidnappings complicate the pursuit before the marshal encounters gunmen who hunt innocent people for sport.

157

Longarm is sent to Cimarron City to prevent violence between soldiers and civilians. His investigation uncovers Colonel Willard Sherman’s plans to betray the town for profit, giving the brewing conflict a dangerous source inside the military.

158

Half a million dollars in gold disappears from the Treasury office in Grants Pass. Longarm investigates, but people he questions are killed, forcing him to follow the missing money while protecting the lives tied to it.

159

Longarm and the Fool Killer

by Tabor Evans

1992

While assisting a military detail through El Paso, Longarm becomes the target of a gunman called the Fool Killer. Locals connect the shooter to an old legend, but the marshal suspects a living enemy behind it.

160

Longarm and the Gunslicks

by Tabor Evans

1992

Longarm tracks murderous cattle rustler Slattery into a Montana town where the outlaw controls the locals. With a landlady and cattle rancher Rosita offering help, he must confront both the fugitive and the community protecting him.

161

After Sheriff Flanders is murdered, his widow Matilda takes up the badge that no man wants. Longarm helps her confront the killers holding Medicine Skull in fear, while their enemies threaten to destroy the Wyoming town.

162

Longarm and the Rebel Brand

by Tabor Evans

1992

Cattle rustling gangs spread trouble across the Texas plains, and Longarm is assigned to stop them. When the thieves target a retired marshal and his granddaughter, the investigation becomes a fight to protect the threatened pair.

163

On his way to negotiate a land deal with Chief Pocatello, Longarm meets a Scotswoman tracking missing brides. Her search exposes a kidnapping ring, while a separate killer follows the marshal’s own trail.

164

Longarm and the Ute Nation

by Tabor Evans

1992

An ambush kills an Army major and his escorts, and an Indigenous scout is blamed. Longarm questions the accusation but faces hostile officers and a three day deadline to identify the killer before retaliatory violence begins.

165

Counterfeit gold coins are being sold to the United States Treasury, sending Longarm south of the border. He pursues the men behind the scheme in Mexico, trying to stop the false currency at its source.

166

The locals of Soapy Wells betray Longarm when he arrives to collect a prisoner. Pursued by Mexican forces, he must cross a dangerous desert with a fugitive who could turn against him at any moment.

167

Sent to Laredo to stop a band of thieves, Longarm finds a sheriff who controls the town and sells guns to Mexican revolutionaries. Enforcing the law means confronting the very official supposed to uphold it.

168

The theft of his equipment leaves Longarm stranded between a harsh stretch of desert and dangerous mining camps. Without his gear, the marshal faces difficult choices about how to move through the hostile country around him.

169

The Loudermilk gang gets the better of Longarm and takes female hostages toward Mexico. The marshal pursues the outlaws, determined to catch them and free the women before they can escape across the border.

170

A carnival game already blamed for two deaths kills a woman close to Longarm. He investigates the people controlling the attraction, turning his grief toward the hidden operation behind a supposedly ordinary form of entertainment.

171

Tall Tom Plowright was supposedly killed and buried seven years ago. When the notorious bandit reappears, Longarm must deal with the trouble he brings to a town that thought it had seen the last of him.

172

Two actors turn from the stage to jewel theft, drawing Longarm into a pursuit. He must stop their next job before they rob a gathering of wealthy Chicago guests and escape with the room’s valuables.

173

Four archaeologists disappear while searching for Spanish gold beneath New Mexico territory. Longarm follows the trail into an underground treasure hunt, where finding the missing men and surviving the dangers surrounding the fortune become inseparable problems.

174

Ambushed on his way to Nevada, Longarm continues to Virginia City to visit an old friend. Instead of a reunion, he finds his friend imprisoned for robbery, bringing a personal connection into his latest encounter with trouble.

175

Cattle thieves strike across El Paso County, and Longarm sets out to discover who finances their raids. Following the rustlers leads him to an ambitious senator’s ranch, linking a local crime wave with political power.

176

A Colorado state senator’s life is threatened, sending Longarm to investigate the person behind the danger. As he searches for the motive, the deputy marshal uncovers troubling parts of the politician’s past that complicate the case.

177

Longarm and the Taos Terror

by Tabor Evans

1993

Clues from a murder victim send Longarm after the Taos killer. When the fugitive steals gold relics from a sacred Pueblo burial ground, the investigation becomes a race to catch him before the theft provokes further violence.

178

Longarm in the Crossfire

by Tabor Evans

1993

Two armed sisters rescue French Lemond from a crowded courtroom just hours before his scheduled hanging. Longarm must track the escaped prisoner and bring him back to face justice, with his rescuers standing between the lawman and his quarry.

179

Robberies and killings in New Mexico territory are blamed on renegade Apaches. Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long investigates the attacks, questioning whether the accused people are responsible or whether someone else is exploiting the conflict.

180

Duke Albright’s men fence off homesteaders’ land, steal cattle and water, and shoot those who resist. Longarm confronts the gang in Kiowa, Colorado, where protecting the settlers means challenging an armed group determined to control their livelihoods.

181

Longarm travels to Cowhead Bay to deal with a reported disturbance. He finds two dead men who apparently intended to kill Indians, with cash still in their bullet-riddled pockets, leaving him to investigate the violence behind the warning.

182

A prisoner Longarm is supposed to transport is killed by local marshal Frank Nemo. Investigating the death, Longarm discovers that Nemo has repeatedly killed suspects described as escapees, raising questions about the lawman’s methods and motives.

183

A ranch widow offers Longarm information about the Gallagher gang, whose crimes he has pursued for too long. Her invitation becomes a trap, leaving him chained in a barn while the outlaws prepare to take advantage of their captive.

184

Longarm enters a high-stakes poker game to capture One-Eyed Jack McBride. The gambler has murdered a Bureau of Indian Affairs agent and is eliminating witnesses, making the lawman’s pursuit urgent for everyone who can connect McBride to the crime.

185

Longarm and the Last Man

by Tabor Evans

1994

Members of the Last Man Club pay into a fund promised to the final survivor. When someone begins murdering members of the military society, Longarm rides to warn the next target and stop the killer behind the deaths.

186

Longarm and the Man-Eaters

by Tabor Evans

1994

Two sailors are found with their hearts cut out, stirring fears that legendary cannibals have returned. Longarm rejects the rumors and investigates, but his search brings him into captivity aboard a slave ship, where his own survival is threatened.

187

Cavalry deserter James Meadows and his soldiers hijack the train Longarm is riding. As the gang starts shooting hostages, the deputy marshal must find a way to protect the other passengers and regain control of the journey.

188

Train robbers set an explosion that throws Longarm and his fellow passengers off the tracks. His hunt for those responsible draws him into a case involving dangerous connections, where the criminals’ allies may be as threatening as the robbers themselves.

189

Longarm on the Fever Coast

by Tabor Evans

1994

Longarm visits Escondrijo on the Texas coast to escort a federal prisoner back to Denver. Gunmen target him before the journey begins, while a mysterious epidemic adds another urgent problem to what should have been a routine assignment.

190

Longarm travels to Bodie to deal with a marshal whose behavior has become dangerously paranoid. He discovers Ivan Kane charging merchants illegal protection fees, turning an inquiry into a confrontation with a lawman abusing his authority.

191

Longarm tracks train robbers across Arizona, only to lose his horse to a rifle shot near a remote cabin. Stranded in the desert, he must seek shelter from the sun in the same building occupied by the gunman.

192

Longarm and the Deadly Thaw

by Tabor Evans

1995

Longarm hunts mail thief Cy Berman, who is wanted for murdering U.S. marshals. The pursuit takes him through frozen gold towns in Wisconsin territory, where harsh winter conditions make an already dangerous assignment harder to carry out.

193

Longarm goes undercover to infiltrate the Killion family, a gang of horse thieves and train robbers skilled at avoiding capture. Posing as a womanizer, he tries to get close enough to the outlaws to bring them under the law.

194

Longarm travels to California to bring mail-fraud prisoner Buster Hoover back to Denver. The supposedly simple escort becomes dangerous when he discovers Hoover’s involvement in murder and armed robbery, and the prisoner’s friends arrive to free him.

195

Widow Constance Farnsworth faces threats intended to force her out of her Colorado mountain railroad. She hires Longarm to protect her, drawing the deputy marshal into a conflict where his feelings and official responsibilities become difficult to reconcile.

196

The government assigns Longarm to capture Wolfgang van Ritterhoff, a trained killer from the Prussian Cavalry. His quarry can handle virtually any weapon and will use any means to escape, testing the deputy marshal’s ability to bring him in.

197

Longarm pursues Dan Marlow, an outlaw blamed for fifteen deaths who has survived repeated gunshot wounds. After the deputy marshal believes Marlow is buried, rumors that he remains alive force Longarm to confront an unsettling mystery.

198

Soldiers from Fort Concho are murdered at night in San Angelo. Longarm poses as a gambler and horse trader to investigate, encountering hostility toward the soldiers and a powerful cattle family whose influence reaches across the town.

199

The U.S. Attorney General sends Longarm to investigate the murder of a Texas postmaster. In Addington, local politics and struggles for power overshadow concern for the victim, leaving the deputy marshal to pursue justice amid competing interests.

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