Tabor Evans Books in Order

Deputy Marshal Custis Long must bring Cotton Younger to trial after another lawman disappears on the assignment. Crooked officials, a suspicious widow and Younger’s outlaw relatives make collecting the prisoner far more dangerous than a routine transfer.

Longarm searches for a young Mormon woman imprisoned by a religious sect after refusing its leader’s marriage demands. His rescue mission takes him into the Great Salt Lake Desert, where finding his captive is only part of the danger.

Longarm enters Whipsaw, Nevada, a logging town where powerful lumber owners enforce their own rules. As he challenges their private brand of justice, a gambler with a gun becomes an unexpected ally in a dangerous assignment.

Deaths on a Montana reservation are blamed on the Wendigo, a feared spirit. Longarm suspects that human greed lies behind the mutilated bodies and investigates a land scheme while trying to separate superstition from evidence of murder.

Bank robbery and murder send Longarm into Indian Territory, where rustlers, corrupt agents and armed outlaws complicate his investigation. A woman hunting a bounty adds another competing interest as he tries to bring the criminals to justice.

Longarm heads to the disputed border town of Los Perros to investigate cattle theft and missing lawmen. With corrupt authorities running the settlement, enforcing federal law means entering a place where neither country offers him much protection.

Longarm investigates the smuggling and exploitation of Chinese workers in the Pacific Northwest. Working alongside Canadian Mounties, he encounters powerful local employers and a criminal network whose threats turn an assignment into a struggle to protect its victims.

A coal strike divides Carboniferous, Colorado, between company gunmen and the Molly Maguires. Sent in as a government strikebreaker, Longarm dislikes his assignment and must navigate a town where labor grievances and intimidation threaten to ignite violence.

Longarm travels to Jayhawk Junction, Kansas, to settle a violent dispute between cattlemen and incoming farmers. Murder, greed and a Czarist spy complicate his mission as he tries to bring justice to a community divided over its future.

Longarm joins a Texas Ranger in the pursuit of a wanted criminal. The two lawmen’s disagreements complicate their journey, leaving Custis Long to keep the partnership together while questioning locals and following the fugitive’s trail across the frontier.

Assigned to guard President Grant in Leadville, Longarm finds that protecting his charge involves more than watching for gunmen. Blackmail and a senator’s double dealing pull the deputy marshal into a case where political influence conceals personal danger.

An election brings political turmoil to Lincoln County, where a powerful boss faces no opposition and the Kid remains at large. Longarm must restore order in a county where public office and gunfire are closely entangled.

A hijacked silver train sends Longarm into the Superstition Hills, a landscape of steep peaks, canyons and deadly snakes. A woman pursuing a fortune complicates his mission as he tracks the crime through terrain that offers little shelter.

Longarm infiltrates Belle Starr’s outlaw refuge at Younger Bend, posing as a fugitive. With corrupt marshals shielding the criminals for money, he must uncover their arrangement without letting either the gang or its protectors discover his real identity.

Rival fossil hunters turn a dinosaur excavation into a dangerous dispute at Dragon Bluff. Longarm faces hired gunmen and competing claims on Arapaho land as he tries to stop the hunt for prehistoric bones from producing fresh graves.

The government sends Longarm to negotiate with Sitting Bull and ease tensions with the Lakota. His difficult diplomatic assignment becomes more complicated when his boss’s niece comes along, bringing her own reforming agenda into an already volatile situation.

Canadian Jack and his gang flee across the border, leaving Longarm with orders that limit his pursuit. Determined to stop them, he enters Canada and encounters a Mountie whose approach makes cooperation with the visiting American anything but simple.

Two railroad crews race toward Eagle Pass for control of valuable mines, but a pair of brothers sabotage the tracks. Longarm follows the criminals into the hills while a railroader’s daughter becomes caught in the conflict.

Longarm travels to La Escondida, Mexico, pursuing a renegade Texas Ranger named Clay Maddox. Murder and a disputed gold mine bring him up against corrupt rurales, making an arrest difficult in a town where official power serves private interests.

A murderous train robbery leaves stolen gold and a range feud in its wake. Longarm heads into Nevada’s grasslands to investigate while sheep owners and cattlemen face each other with hired gunmen close at hand on both sides.

Longarm rides into Teapot Wells to challenge the power of Bull Halloran, who dominates the town. What first looks like a job taming a local bully leads him toward a larger swindle and competing interests beneath the surface.

Longarm investigates missing government rifles after local authorities dismiss the case. His search uncovers stolen cattle and a dishonest sheriff, forcing him to confront a wider scheme rather than accept the claim that the weapons have vanished for good.

Gold bullion keeps disappearing when a mail stage is robbed in the rimrock desert. Longarm heads into the canyons to pursue an armored rifleman, facing a bandit whose unusual protection makes an already difficult hunt more dangerous.

A commune seeking a new life settles in Nebraska’s Sand Hills, drawing the anger of cattlemen. Longarm is ordered to remove the newcomers and track down their armed female prophet, whose lawbreaking complicates the dispute over the land.

Longarm secretly guards a government cattle drive along the Camino Real toward California. Rustlers want the herd, while fires, floods and stampedes threaten the journey, leaving him to protect the cattle through five hundred miles of trouble.

Longarm escorts congressmen and their families through Yellowstone to help secure the park’s protection. The journey brings threats from an ambusher, cattle thieves and a grizzly, turning a political sightseeing trip into an assignment that demands his frontier skills.

Fence cutting fuels a land feud, and Longarm is sent to halt the destruction before the dispute grows worse. In a struggle over who can control the range, the deputy marshal must bring law into an increasingly hostile situation.

Lawmen and criminals are vanishing in Antelope Junction, a rough town south of Salt Lake City. Longarm investigates the disappearances in a place where bounty hunters gather and the growing cemetery offers little reassurance.

Longarm follows outlaws into the Texas badlands, where a trade in guns and alcohol threatens to worsen frontier violence. His assignment is to stop the traffickers supplying Indigenous communities, taking him onto the criminals’ own dangerous ground.

Wanted men are escaping through a secret network known as the Devil’s Railroad. Disguised as a one-eyed bandit, Longarm follows the route from Iowa toward Canada, aided by a renegade woman as he works to break the operation.

A threat against a visiting Hungarian princess sends Longarm undercover with a traveling circus. Among its performers is the Golden Lady, whose help may prove useful as he searches for rebels planning an attack during the royal visit.

Someone is stealing valuable ore from the Murietta Mining Company, and Longarm is assigned to recover it. His investigation brings him into contact with a blonde ranch owner whose private plans make an already tricky case harder to unravel.

A rustling network moves American cattle into Mexico, gives them false ownership papers and sells them back in Laredo. Longarm follows the trade through lawyers, dealers and armed bandits to break the operation.

An outlaw called Timberline apparently returns from his Salt Lake City grave and appears in Denver. Longarm investigates the reported resurrection, finding that the story of a walking corpse conceals a more complicated matter in the rapidly growing city.

Stolen banknotes from the Northfield robbery start appearing again, and Billy Vail assigns Longarm to investigate. The deputy marshal follows the money’s trail, looking into a crime associated with Jesse James and the Younger brothers while confronting fresh danger.

Mail disappears along a shallow stretch of the Big Muddy, sending Longarm undercover aboard the steamship Minnitipi. Among gamblers, passengers and a woman captain, he must determine who is interrupting the deliveries and what their real purpose might be.

A government assignment brings Longarm into another investigation when a young blind woman asks him to help pursue revenge. The two cases draw the deputy marshal through encounters with people whose motives are difficult to trust or untangle.

Resistance to the Santa Fe railroad draws Longarm into a conflict involving ranchers, teamsters and secret water deals. He must uncover why the tracks are being opposed while powerful interests try to keep their arrangements hidden.

Two politicians have been killed during a bitter election in the copper town of Mina Cobre. Longarm wants a fair vote, but a Yaqui uprising threatens to force the political rivals into an uneasy alliance before polling begins.

Longarm leaves his familiar frontier territory for New York City, where a criminal called the Teaneck Kid is on the loose. Newspaperwoman Billie McArtle joins the deputy marshal as he attempts to track down the dangerous fugitive.

After surviving a train massacre, Longarm pursues Finn Larson, the Warner brothers’ hired killer. The search takes him into the Indian River mountains, where bringing the gunman to justice means following a trail marked by violence and distraction.

The assassination of a Texas cattle baron draws Longarm into a conspiracy reaching beyond the frontier. With Jessica Starbuck and Ki involved, he faces enemies whose plans connect Washington, Japan, and a dangerous new weapon.

The murders of federal revenue agents bring Longarm to Red Gap in the Snake River valley. Feuding settlers and armed moonshiners complicate his investigation as he searches for the killers among the town's illicit whiskey makers.

Longarm pursues robber Little Billy Bates into Boulder Canyon, where local loyalty makes the fugitive difficult to catch. A flash flood and an encounter with fanatics leave the deputy marshal facing dangers beyond his original assignment.

Census takers investigating fraudulent voting in Deadwood are being killed. Longarm joins Calamity Jane to protect the next census and investigate the mining interests and corrupt politicians behind the danger in Dakota Territory.

Cattlemen and silver miners fight for control of a New Mexico boomtown. Sent to settle the dispute, Longarm must determine whose claims deserve support while rival interests and flying bullets make neutrality difficult to maintain.

Two Land Office clerks disappear in the Dakota Badlands, drawing Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long into an investigation. His search for the missing men leads toward a swindler whose schemes make the assignment dangerous.

A former Confederate colonel maintains his own brutal domain in the Chisos Mountains years after the Civil War. Longarm sets out to end the man's rule over troops and enslaved people in a remote mountain stronghold.

Longarm pursues Blast Haggerty, a man wanted for killing a United States lawman, into the swamps of Texas. A local guide helps him navigate the Big Thicket as he tracks his quarry through difficult country.

Longarm goes undercover as a disgraced prisoner in Yuma to befriend a man who buried stolen army gold. The assignment becomes a struggle to survive prison and escape with the information needed to recover the payroll.

Counterfeit gold coins lead Longarm to San Francisco, where someone inside the Mint is producing fraudulent double eagles. His investigation takes him through the Barbary Coast and into trouble with an armed bandit and local gangs.

A Treasury investigator is murdered while searching for a hidden cache of gold coins linked to Santa Anna. Longarm takes up the case, pursuing answers where the hunt for buried wealth has already turned deadly.

Longarm heads to Cody, where cattle thieves and crooked lawmen have framed his old friend Juan Romero. Clearing Romero means confronting ranchers who remain hostile and the ruthless cattleman wielding power behind them.

Longarm discovers that his former mentor and best friend has joined a band of self-appointed bounty hunters. To bring him back within the law, the deputy marshal considers using tactics that make him look like an outlaw.

Longarm pursues a riverboat con man who has already killed two lawmen. The hunt grows more complicated when he crosses paths with a woman whose own deadly pursuit becomes entangled with his assignment.

Two men sent to kill a dangerous stallion are murdered, while ranchers blame the horse for cattle thefts. Longarm must track the animal and identify the human killer waiting along the same trail.

Longarm receives an unusual assignment: protect French actress Sarah Bernhardt during her tour of the American West. Two killers are following her, turning the deputy marshal’s escort duty into a hunt for men threatening his charge.

A Texas fair hosted by Jessica Starbuck attracts gunfighters, Buffalo Bill Cody and an ambitious congressman. Assigned to protect the politician, Longarm joins Jessie and Ki as violence spreads beyond the shooting contest into a personal threat.

Longarm's former partner Gil Bright has turned killer and begun targeting lawmen. Knowing his old colleague may help Longarm pursue him, but Bright's cunning makes stopping the attacks more dangerous than a familiar name suggests.

A series of unexplained murders threatens to ignite a war between the Hopi and Navajo. Longarm investigates the killings, seeking the truth before suspicion between the two peoples turns an already dangerous case into wider violence.

Sent to find a missing federal agent, Longarm enters No Man’s Land amid a tax-collection swindle. A hired killer shadows his investigation, while a county coroner and two persistent cowboys make potential suspects difficult to dismiss.

A gang is stealing the cargo collected from silver mines by a narrow-gauge mountain railroad. Longarm heads to Peacock on the Continental Divide, expecting a straightforward search that soon becomes a dangerous mystery.

The blinded leader of the Mullin Gang prepares a major robbery after years of waiting. A woman's tip sends Longarm into Utah to find the gang, where an apparent lead puts him directly in their line of fire.

A murder investigation takes Longarm into Dakota Territory, where a Russian cattle baron disregards American law. The deputy marshal must deal with the powerful rancher as he pursues the truth behind the killing.

A Spanish duchess has built a luxurious castle in the Mojave Desert, and federal agents sent to investigate have disappeared. Longarm goes undercover to learn what is happening, facing murder and outlaws along the way.

Deadly post-office robberies leave suspicion falling on Longarm's friend, a man whose build matches a masked bandit. Longarm must clear his name and find the gang's leader before the evidence puts the wrong man in danger.

With telegraph lines cut, Longarm faces a range war without help. Accompanied by a sheriff accused of murder, he races toward Jinglebob dam before angry ranchers destroy it and flood the riverbed beneath them.

Jessica Starbuck is wanted for robbery and murder, with a reward attracting lawmen and outlaws alike. Longarm and Ki must reach her before the bounty hunters do, while uncovering the truth behind the accusations.

An assignment to arrest a fugitive takes Longarm to Omaha, but another lawman has already claimed the prisoner. When unknown gunmen attack him, Longarm stays to investigate possible trouble surrounding the Nebraska State Fair.

Outlaws are replacing quality cattle with animals carrying hoof-and-mouth disease, defrauding the government and threatening the cattle industry. Longarm travels to Colorado to identify the people responsible and stop the infected steers from spreading danger.

Longarm arrives in Virginia City seeking a train robber who has vanished. Corrupt lawmen, a violent gang, and a curious newspaperwoman complicate the search, giving the deputy marshal more trouble than his original assignment promised.

The killing of four government surveyors draws Longarm into an investigation that also involves a dead sheriff and other victims. As he encounters Emmaline, he must track the ruthless killer responsible for the slaughter.

A deputy's murder sends Longarm onto the Ogallala Trail. Tracking the killer pulls him into a range war, where a lynch mob, a gunslinger, and a gambler make bringing his quarry to justice difficult.

Five killers steal an army payroll and flee through the Painted Desert along the Outlaw Trail. Longarm pursues them across terrain that offers countless hiding places, relying on local knowledge and a woman's help to survive.

Longarm heads to Arkansas for a goose-shooting contest with a ten-thousand-dollar prize. His plans for competing change when killers decide to make him their target, turning a sporting trip into a fight for survival.

A convicted killer accuses a political candidate of ordering several murders. Longarm follows the allegation toward the governor's office, finding that his investigation places both him and a woman involved in the case at risk.

A gang steals the Durango miners' payroll, then dies before recovering its hidden loot. Ordered to retrieve money buried in a Native chief's grave, Longarm faces a mission that could put his own life at risk.

Longarm is assigned to find an English duchess who fled scandal believing she committed murder. Her attempt to build a life in the West brings him into danger involving her pursuers and the people she encounters.

An outlaw once known for helping ordinary people is accused of attacking them instead. Longarm joins Jessica Starbuck and Ki to investigate the change, with a friend's kidnapping adding urgency to their search for the gang.

Stagecoach robberies suggest that the supposedly dead Black Jack Slade might still be active. Longarm investigates whoever knows when money is aboard, seeking a living culprit behind the ghost story surrounding the Julesburg route.

Millions in bonds and a valuable railroad deed vanish from the Santa Fe line. Longarm follows the theft to Deming with help from a female Pinkerton agent, searching for someone trustworthy amid the town's corruption.

A federal agent's wife disappears after Chief Raining Stars leaves the reservation with armed followers. Longarm searches the prairie for the captive, but a hidden gunman and a mysterious woman draw him into further complications.

A gambler's winning streak provokes anger among Montana ranchers and miners, followed by violent retaliation. Longarm tries to prevent a wider conflict as the army prepares to intervene, unaware that someone has offered money for his death.

Longarm enters Snake Flat to find Babe Warner, a fugitive who has evaded federal capture for eight years. Warner is hiding under another name among dangerous company, forcing the marshal to identify and expose him.

Bank robbers steal fifty thousand dollars in government bonds and seem to disappear without a trace. Longarm must explain their escape and track the thieves, facing a case whose strange circumstances challenge his disbelief in ghosts.

A manhunt draws Longarm into a feud between silver miners and Mexican farmers over polluted water. To catch his quarry, he must take a side in a conflict threatening both communities and his own safety.

The theft of seemingly worthless buffalo bones brings Longarm to Pueblo, where an ambush makes the case serious. More gunmen arrive as he investigates, turning an odd robbery into a fight against killers determined to stop him.

Longarm pursues railman Walter Tomlin for stealing mail, but the Rocky Mountains make the arrest anything but routine. A blizzard, an avalanche and a dangerous killer turn his assignment into a fight to survive.

Dead cattle floating downstream bring Longarm to a ranch where an epidemic is feared. When a doctor finds evidence of deliberate killing, he investigates a rustling scheme whose victims may include more than livestock.

Longarm travels to Sitka, Alaska, to identify a prisoner. A hostile reception makes the distant assignment harder than expected, leaving the marshal to carry out his work in an unfamiliar place where he isn't welcome.

Longarm boards a steamboat undercover to catch a killer and unexpectedly meets Jessica Starbuck and Ki. Their shared investigation draws them toward contraband and a dishonest boat operator, with danger following them along the river.

A cartel gathers an army of outlaws to seize control in California and Oregon, targeting Jessica Starbuck. Longarm teams up with Jessie and Ki to confront the organization while attacks on her property expose the growing threat.

A murderer shifts the blame for his crime onto an innocent Colorado boy. Longarm must identify and catch the real killer before local people hang the youth for something he didn't do.

A Wisconsin bank robbery puts Longarm on the trail of thieves fleeing toward Canada. With lawmen dying along the way, he must catch the gang before its members escape across the border.

Chinese miners bring valuable green stones to Green Creek, attracting white vigilantes intent on violence. Longarm must prevent a massacre while trying to discover what the miners and their Ute partners refuse to explain.

A visit to Sally and Bill Adams lands Longarm in the middle of a land dispute. With Dalton Cross and Mormon elder Booth at odds, his time with old friends becomes entangled in their conflict.

The Kiowa Kid died two years ago, yet someone using his name is robbing trains and disappearing. Longarm investigates the supposed return of the outlaw, trying to catch the man behind the revived legend.