LOS PERROS WAS SOUTH OF THE BORDER. AND AFOUL OF THE LAW... The Mexicans claimed it was a Texas town. The Texans said it was Mex. Los Perros. A tough, old cow-camp of border-jumpers and price-tagged rustlers. With a "hanging" sheriff of flexib...
SHE WAS IN HIS DREAMS -- AND THEN SHE WAS IN HIS POWER... The Avenging Angels Cult had stolen her away. A young Mormon beauty who'd spurned their leader's offer of "divine" -- and multiple -- marriage. Now she was hidden somewhere in the Gre...
THE BLACKFOOT CALLED IT MAGIC. LONGARM CALLED IT MURDER... Wendigo, the Great Devil, had climbed down from the sky to stalk the Montana reservation, leaving a trail of broken bodies in the prairie sun. Or so the Indians said... Federal Marsh...
ONE NATION, UNDER GREED... It was bank robbery and murder that brought Longarm to the wild-spirited borders of Oklahoma, Land of the Redman -- and anyone after a quick, illegal fortune... It was cattle-rustling that kept him there. Gold-grubbin...
WHIPSAW -- THE TOWN WITH A SHARP-TOOTHED STING! It was a timber camp in boom-time Nevada -- thick with brawny loggers, cardsharps and ruby-lipped fancy women. Ruled by the lumber barons and the land rapers -- with their own private brand of just...
SOMEBODY'S MILKING THE MOTHERLODE The Murrietta Mining Co. was in deep trouble. There they slaved, digging out highgrade ore from their California claim, rolling it down the mountain to the U.S. Mint -- losing track of it before it even hit bott...
ON THE SIZZLING KANSAS PRAIRIE In 1880, the Old West was changing. The farmers were settling in. The fences were going up. The cowmen saw their wild, open world shrinking -- and they blamed it on the "foreign" nesters. Suddenly, at Jayhawk Junc...
THE ORIENTAL BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD It was the biggest secret crime clan in the West -- with a hatchet as a symbol and a tradition of terror. They'd been smuggling contraband cargo from China into Oregon -- human cargo forbidden to enter. Now...
IN 1880, COAL WAS KING. AND THE MINERS PAWNS. It was going to be a long, hard strike. Already -- in Carboniferous, Colorado -- the gunmen were squaring off: mine-company goons vs. the "Molly Maguires" -- union terrorists whose real names were...
IF YOU'RE IN TROUBLE, SEND FOR THE ARMY -- OR ONE TEXAS RANGER That's what the Texans always said. But now the Rangers themselves were in trouble. A comrade had been shot down, they were hot for his killer's blood, and Longarm had been sent to...
NEW MEXICO TERRITORY -- THE LAND BENEATH THE SHADOW OF "THE KID" In Lincoln County, "The Boss" was running -- unopposed -- for office. "The Kid" was running loose. And the political situation was running wild. It was up to Longarm to straigh...
IN THE SAND HILLS OF NEBRASKA -- A NEST OF DREAMERS... The commune. They rolled out West with a tinhorn dream -- seeking paradise in the middle of a desert hell. Longarm is sent to run them off the cattlemen's land. And to track down their se...
THEY CALLED IT LEADVILLE -- BUT IT WAS FORGED OF SILVER AND BLOOD General Ulysses S. Grant and Longarm had mighty different reasons for calming to town. The hero hoped to peddle his memoirs. The marshal to guard him from the blast of a hired gun. ...
TO ROAM THE SUPERSTITION HILLS, A MAN'S GOT TO BE DESPERATE It was a sun-baked model of hell. A wasteland of stiletto peaks, twisty canyons, the sidewinder's lightning strike... But duty called Longarm to the devil hills. In the form of a hijac...
FROM MONTREAL TO MONTANA, HE RAN WITH A PACK OF WOLVES Canada Jack and his gang were killers. But the blueblooded outlaw had friends in high places -- the Mounties' hands were tied. It was left to U.S. Marshal Long to get their man. And a certa...
AT YOUNGER BEND, THE BADGE AND THE GUNSLICK RIDE TOGETHER... The notorious Belle Star is holed up with a nest of desperadoes. And it looks like some crooked marshals are in cahoots with her. For a price -- the law won't touch the robbers. Till...
ONCE THEY CALLED IT COLTER'S HELL... Now it was Yellowstone, the first national pleasure preserve. But between it and civilization lay a savage land of needle-thin canyon trails, scalding geysers and Indian arrows. Longarm was shepherding Washi...
TO ROAM THE RIMROCK DESERT TAKES A DIFFERENT KIND OF OUTLAW... In the sun-baked canyons a certain mail-stage has a habit of being held up. The gold bullion it carries disappears without a trace.... Duty calls Longarm to the wasteland hills to t...
IN HANSVILLE -- THEY SAID THE TRAIL WENT DEAD... Government rifles. They'd been missing for six months -- and the hard-nosed local law said they were gone for good. But Longarm found a bigger swindle -- rustled herds and a cheatin' sheriff....
IN THE GRASSLANDS OF NEVADA -- MORE THAN DREAMS COULD DIE... Murdering train robbers. They left a path of gold and a bloody range war in their dust. Duty called Longarm to settle the prairie feud -- while sheepherders and cattlemen boldly ride ...
THE GHOST DANCERS RIDE AGAIN... Longarm called it a fool's errand -- but Uncle Sam sent him to parlay with Sitting Bull, cool down the fiery medicine men, and lure the Lakotas from the path of war. As if that weren't enough of a task -- he was ...
THE TYRANT OF TEAPOT WELLS... Hard-bitten Bull Halloran runs the town -- and makes the laws. But when Longarm goes in to clean things up, he finds two surprises: a big swindle -- and a fancy lady he could love....
FROM REDCLIFF, THEY RACED TO LAY THE RAILS Two railroad teams vie to reach Eagle Pass -- the winner will control the mines. But a pair of thieving brothers sabotage the lines and hide out deep in the red-clay hills. Longarm hunts for the desper...
CATTLE RAID ON THE CAMINO REAL... The cattle drive is a five-hundred-mile trek -- and a jackpot for rustlers with a hankering for Government beef. So Longarm's in the saddle again, secret troubleshooter for the run to California. It's a long, ...
WHAT KIND OF BURIED TREASURE COULD DRIVE MEN TO MURDER? At Dragon Bluff, rival archaeologists warred for a cache of priceless dinosaur fossils...angry Arapahoes rose up to protect their land and its riches...and hired guns were primed and ready, f...
LA ESCONDIDA It was a sun-baked Mexican town where a desperate man could bury his past- and his secrets. Longarm was headed there to collar Clay Maddox, a renegade Texas Ranger wanted for murder. But he rides into more than he bargained for-...
IN THE DESERT, WATER WAS HARD TO FIND. DANGER WASN'T. The Humboldt. It meanders through the killing wastelands of Nevada...a river so dry a man can cross it without getting his boots wet. But trouble runs deep enough, when Longarm brings the la...
SOMETHING WAS HALTING THE U.S. MAIL -- AND IT WASN'T RAIN OR SLEET... The Feds wanted to know why the mail kept disappearing on a certain shallow stretch of the river they called the Big Muddy. So they sent Longarm, in disguise, to take a gander. ...
THE ARIZONA TERRITORY. THE CLIMATE WAS HEALTHY. THE BULLETS WEREN'T... Mina Cobre was a little town with a lot of copper-and a lot of killing. Already two politicians had been shot in a bitterly fought election to see who would run the show. L...
IT WAS A TOWN OF TIGHT-FISTED MEN -- AND BRAZEN WOMEN... Northfield. It grazed the eastern edge of the Badlands. A man could get lost-or killed-there, and no one would ever know the difference. Northfield. Tough, cocky, and a whole lot of troub...
IT'S A WILD WEST SHOW -- AND IT'S GETTING WILDER BY THE SECOND... Colorado planned a gala reception for the copper-haired Princess Danica of Hungary. But a band of Slavic rebels had plans of their own for her Highness... To stop them cold, Long...
A MAN COULD GET KILLED ON THE LOOP... The Laredo Loop -- a notorious rustling network that spirited U.S. longhorns south of the border, fixed them up with phony "legal" papers, then shipped them back to Laredo for sale. When Longarm is enliste...
ANTELOPE JUNCTION...IT WAS SOUTH OF SALT LAKE CITY. AND DOWN IN DEVIL'S LAND... The Mormons claimed it was where Satan's children assassinated each other. Gentiles lived there too. Antelope Junction...a saloon-thriving honky-tonk town with a boot ...
ICE STORMS AND LONGHORNS... When too many fences are cut for cattle rustling, Longarm is sent out to collar the culprits. Instead he winds up in the thick of a local land feud, a troubled budding romance, and the fading marriage of a memorable you...
WHEN THE DESERT SUN DRAWS BLOOD... The Santa Fe: the most important railroad line in the country -- and the most dangerous. In the scorching heat of the desert, both the ranchers and the teamsters are fighting. No one wants the tracks laid. And ...
DENVER -- A CITY SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE. LAND WAS HARD TO FIND. DEAD BODIES WEREN'T. An outlaw called Timberline has risen from his grave in Salt Lake City to walk the sun-bleached streets of Denver. But when Longarm looks into the matter, he fi...
THEY CALLED IT NO MAN'S LAND. ONLY THE RATTLERS SURVIVED. Llano Estacado. Parched plains. Burning, barren land between the Panhandle and Big Bend, Texas. Comanchero country in the old days. And now word was out that the white outlaw traders were b...
THE WILDEST OUTLAWS IN THE WEST HAD A NEW "DISAPPEARING ACT"... They called it the Devil's Railroad, the mysterious route that shuttled the country's most-wanted men to South America. Disguised as a notorious one-eyed bandit, Longarm sets out to b...
MONEY IS ALL THAT COUNTS IN SILVER CITY Accusations -- and bullets -- are flying as rawhide tough cattlemen and trigger-happy silver miners fight it out for control in a wild New Mexican boomtown. It's up to Federal Marshal Long to decide which...
FAKE MONEY MEANS REAL DANGER AT THE FRISCO MINT! These were no ordinary counterfeiters. Someone inside the San Francisco Mint was stamping out U.S. double eagles with one hundred percent phony gold! Sent to the wild Barbary Coast -- alive with ...
IT WAS A LAND OF WHISKEY AND WINCHESTERS... Red Gap was a ragtag town surrounded by the jagged cliffs of the Snake River valley and inhabited by rough bushwhackers and hoochmakers, as mean as the firewater they brewed.... When U.S. revenue agen...
BURNING HELL IN A YUMA PRISON... Getting arrested and disgraced was just another assignment for Longarm -- a way to get into the federal pen in Yuma. There he had to make friends with an old-timer who once stole and secretly buried an army payrol...
WHEN THE FLOODGATES OF HELL OPEN WIDE... Bringing Little Billy Bates in should have been easy. But the pint-sized robber had a town prepared to defend him to the death and a woman who was more than any man could handle. Between the town and the...
THEY'RE VOTING TOMBSTONES IN DEADWOOD... ...and the U.S. Government census takers sent to investigate are dropping like flies in the hardscrabble hills of the Dakota Territory. Assigned to ride shotgun on a new census, U.S. Marshal Long teams u...
THE WARNER GANG WAS THE MEANEST OF THEM ALL... And the massacre on the Glendale train was the most savage of their crimes. Five innocent people are dead, murdered by the heartless killer Finn Larson, hired gun for the Warner brothers. But Feder...
LONGARM FINALLY MEETS HIS MATCH When the biggest cattle baron in Texas is assassinated, naturally the Feds send in U.S. Marshal Long. Longarm finds himself threatened by a conspiracy reaching from Washington to Japan, armed with a strange new weap...
LAND IS MONEY IN THE GODFORSAKEN BADLANDS Interior is nothing but a two-bit town in the Dakota Territory -- a land where pistol-toting sharp-shooters make their own laws, and corrupt lawmen choose not to notice... But when two U.S. Land Office ...
THERE WAS NO PLACE MORE TREACHEROUS THAN THE BIG THICKET... A land of endless swamps and trackless wastes, no man could enter it and expect to come out alive... But when Blast Haggerty, a rat-smart weasel of an outlaw, guns down a U.S. lawman a...
THE WEST WAS NEVER LIKE THIS... The Teaneck Kid was a dude from back east who'd made a reputation for himself in the Wild West. On the lam from Leavenworth, he'd landed in the arms of New York's finest and was headed back to prison. But when Lo...
A MADMAN'S PARADISE... High in the treacherous Chisos Mountains, Confederate Colonel Bascom Sutpen still terrorizes his slaves and rides roughshod over his troops -- even though the war ended fifteen years ago! The colonel's private confederacy li...
A SNAKE IN HUMAN CLOTHING... A series of mysterious deaths had almost touched off a war on the parched desert land inhabited by the Navajo and Hopi Indians. The fang marks on the victims pointed to rattlers... But when U.S. Marshal Long begins ...
SILVER WAS DISAPPEARING WITHOUT A TRACE... Peacock was a two-bit town stuck high along the Continental Divide. But that's where the narrow-gauge railroad picked up the payload from the silver mines. And that's where a slippery gang of train robber...
BAIT FOR A BACKSHOOTER... When two men are sent out to shoot a crazed killer stallion. a bushwhacker cuts down both of the hunters. That's trouble enough. but there's a cattle thief on the loose as well and, incredibly, the ranchers believe the ho...
STOPPING A STAGED ROBBERY! This was one assignment that looked to be easier than fleecing a tinhorn gambler -- and about half as exciting. At least that's what Federal Marshal Long assumed when he was asked to guard the French national treasure --...
A LAWMAN TURNED COLD-BLOODED KILLER... That's just what Longarm's one-time partner Gil Bright has become. Suddenly he's gotten meaner than an angry rattler -- and unsuspecting lawmen are his target. It's up to Federal Marshal Long to stop him, ...
LONGARM AND THE LONE STAR LEGEND TOGETHER AGAIN! It was to be the biggest fair Texas had ever seen. Hosted by Jessica Starbuck, its biggest attraction was a shooting contest that would draw every gunslick in the West, including Buffalo Bill Cody a...
BADLANDS BOUNTY Longarm loved old Heck Wilcox like a father. The one-time U.S. Marshal taught him everything he knew about the law -- but now, folks said, he'd become a self-appointed vigilante. When Longarm hears that his old friend is riding ...
SOMEONE'S PLAYING TAX COLLECTOR AND MAKING OFF WITH A MINT! A Federal agent is missing and U.S. Marshal Long is the one sent to bring him home. But a hired killer is lurking in the shadows, just aching to put a bullet in Longarm's back. Could it b...
CATTLE RUSTLERS AND CROOKED LAWMEN HAVE TAKEN OVER THE TOWN OF CODY... And they've framed rancher Juan Romero -- an old pal of Federal Marshal Long's -- on a murder charge. Romero's been proven innocent, but the local ranchers have their own ideas...
When Santa Anna was defeated at the Alamo, he left behind more than his reputation. Buried somewhere in a Texas border town is a stash of Mexican gold coins, and someone's murdering the US Treasury men who've been set to find it...
LONGARM AND LONE STAR: THE LEGEND GROWS It was the biggest "manhunt" Texas had ever seen. Jessie Starbuck was wanted for robbery and murder, dead or alive, with a reward large enough to draw not only every lawman, but every gunslinging outlaw i...
THE DAM COULD BURST AT ANY MOMENT! Telegraph lines are cut, and there's no way to call for help, when Federal Marshal Long is faced with a range war. With the aid of a local sheriff who is accused of murder, Longarm tries to reach the Jinglebob da...
SOMEONE'S DUPING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT! A ring of outlaws is swapping Grade-A cattle for diseased runts. But who is responsible, and just who is the Real McCoy? Somebody better find some answers, pronto, or the cattle industry could be completely wi...
A DESERT FORTRESS... Dead center of the Mojave Desert was not prime real estate. It was mighty peculiar that a Spanish Duchess had built herself a luxurious castle in that very place. And it was even more peculiar that the U.S. agents sent to inve...
HOT ON THE TRAIL OF DESERT DESPERADOES Five ruthless killers have nabbed a hefty army payroll and escaped along the famed Outlaw Trail through the Painted Desert -- the best hideout land in the West. This wasteland, famous for its beauty, can beco...
LONGARM IS IN A HOT PURSUIT! Ruthless Jim Mullin, blinded in a gunfight that left him permanently scarred, has been waiting years for this moment. The next job will be the infamous Mullin Gang's greatest -- and most brutal -- robbery ever. U.S....
FORT RENO WAS A DUSTY, FORGOTTEN TOWN, UNTIL ... Driven by a powerful vision, Chief Raining Stars kidnaps the beautiful wife of a Federal agent and jumps reservation with his most dangerous braves. All have vanished in the open prairie. U.S. Marsh...
LONGARM'S BIGGEST MANHUNT RUNS INTO A DESERT WAR Longarm is on a manhunt. It's not his job to make peace between two communities locked in a bloody feud over a little stream. The silver miners are polluting it and the Mexican farmers downstream ne...
Everybody knows that Snake Flat isn't for respectable folks. It's a hideout for sulty women, ruthless and cold blooded killers. Into this den US Marshal long, determined to capture Babe Warner. Babe has given the feds the slip for 8 years and now ...
ROBIN HOOD GONE BAD... Will Sayre, once known throughout the West as the people's Robin Hood, is now accused of a string of murders, robberies and kidnappings of ordinary folks. His actions are puzzling, the results, lethal. Has the leader of the ...
LONGARM DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GHOSTS BUT... ...how else could he explain a dozen bank robbers in shiny slickers making off with $50,000 in government bonds and then disappearing into thin air? And in broad daylight! To make a tight spot tougher, cashe...
POLITICS IS WAR... U.S. Marshal Custis Long knows that politicians can be pretty cutthroat in the way they do business. But when a murderous convict accuses a high-powered candidate of masterminding several brutal killings, Longarm discovers a new...
MEAN AND CROOKED Who says a cattle outfit has to be run sensibly? The owners of these lean, leathery longhorns are driving them 150 miles west of their destination, but that's no crime. Or is it? Everything looks okay to Marshal Long -- who wo...
SHE WAS WILDER THAN THE WEST... The young and beautiful Duchess of Clyde had fled England, leaving a trail of scandals behind. Now Queen Victoria wants her back at any price. The problem is that the Duchess is practicing the oldest profession of a...
THE MONTANA ORDEAL No one could be that lucky in gambling. Yet Weeping Snakes won every time, claiming guidance from the spirits. When the impoverished ranchers and miners in Bitterroots, Montana, try to stop his winning streak, Weeping Snakes goe...
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Four million dollars in bonds and an invaluable railroad deed are missing from the Santa Fe line. U.S. Marshal Custis Long is sent to track them down. His first clue turns out to be a very dead end, but with the help of a l...
GHOST RIDER! Black Jack Slade was supposed to be dead, hanged long ago by a vigilante gang in Virginia City -- but did they really do the job? Somebody's still robbing the Julesburg Stage on its hardscrabble run up to Holyoke. Somebody who knows whe...
SOMETHING'S FISHY ON THE MISSOURI RIVER Hayes Bilton and his daughter Maddy, owners of the faltering Bilton Steamboat Line, are the targets of a few strange "accidents?' So Jessica Starbuck and her samurai friend Ki -- the Lone Star team -- go to ...
THE GREEN ROCKS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORTHLESS... So how come the Chinese upstream are mining them and getting richer every day? The white folks in Green's Creek are raising hell about it, while the Chinese and their Ute partners have a "no talk" po...
LEGENDS DIE HARD ... But when they start robbing trains, that's when Longarm steps in. It's been nearly two years since Longarm out-gunned the Kiowa Kid. But it takes more than bullets to kill a legend. And, from the way an impostor down in Tex...
A BLOOD-SOAKED RACE AGAINST TIME A ruthless butcher was on the loose in Colorado country, an innocent youth was framed, and Longarm was in the middle of it all. The locals were already stringing up a noose -- and Longarm had to act fast before the...
A BLOODY WAR FOR WATER ON NEVADA'S RUBY RANGE It's one vacation Longarm will be glad to see end. An invitation from his friends, ranchers Sally and Bill Adams, turns out to be a desperate call for help -- and U.S. Marshal Long finds himself caught...
THE HANGMAN OR THE WIDOW? California lawmen have nabbed Chauncey Mahoney, alias the Stovespit Kid, and it's Longarm's job to bring him back to Denver to stand trial for the murder of a U.S. Marshal. But the Kid doesn't stay jailed long. Like spit ...
MEAN TOWN GUNDOWN Somebody in Pueblo was stealing worthless buffalo bones. U.S. Marshal Custis Long thought that was pretty funny, until a bushwhacker tried to blow his head off. Then two Texas gunmen died trying to take him. More killers showed u...
Longarm is torn between his orders to work alone in stopping a renegade band of samurai on a rampage through the Sierra Nevadas, and helping his long-time friend Jessica Starbuck search for her companion Ki, who has been kidnapped...
DOWN AND DIRTY Longarm plays cowpoke as he rides into Dodge City. Posing as a saddle-tramp by the name of Long Tom, he's out to expose a tricky cattle scam. But rounding up the guilty party isn't as easy as it first seemed. Soon the big lawman is ...
An archaeology team digs up old ruins in the Sonora desert while Longarm accompanies them to keep an eye out for trouble, and he finds himself faced with bandits, hot-blooded Indians, and a rival group of "scientists"...
A DAMN FOOL PLACE TO RUN... Longarm's got the job of hunting down a pack of murderous thieves hiding out on Long's Peak. It's a damn fool place to run to, seeing as a certain Marshal Long is sole owner of the whole mountain and doesn't take kindly...
WELCOME TO COTTONWOOD, TEXAS Cottonwood used to be a nice place to live. Now it's a powder keg on a short fuse. People are dying and nobody knows.why. The settlers are blaming the Indians and the Indians are pointing blame at the settlers. Some ar...
After word reaches the U.S. Marshal's office that the murderous Coulter gang is planning to strike a train hauling a shipment of gold dust, Longarm joins the gang under an alias to discover the details of the hold-up and warn the sheriff...
Marshal Long tracks a young woman carrying some stolen land titles to Ridge City, where her suspects she has turned them over to land baron J.T. Roebuck, but nobody in town is talking and a gang of hired guns is threatening the marshall's investigati...
Walking some sorry varmint up the gallows steps to the wrong end of a rope wasn't Marshal Long's ideal way to start the day. But the Great Costello wasn't just any outlaw. As a train robber he was a washout-but as an escape artist he was a whirling w...
Longarm rides into the seemingly peaceful town of Salem, Texas, to find that the outlaw he is tracking down is dead, the townspeople cannot be questioned or trusted, and a beautiful and spirited Texan woman has her own plans for Longarm...
REUNION WITH DANGER The way Longarm saw it, his old friend Jessie Starbuck was easy on his eyes, but hard on his health. When he answered her telegram he didn't reckon on a welcoming committee of local lawmen out to try her for murder...or a pack ...
Considered a living legend, Texas Sheriff Gus Hackett makes it to retirement before someone blows him away and although the local law calls it an accident, Longarm sees it as murder and swears vengeance...
A DESERT HELL RUNS RED WITH BLOOD... Arizona's Sonora Desert is the closest thing to hell Longarm's ever seen. It's hot as a stove, and water is more precious than gold. But the Papago Indians and a few rugged ranchers manage to scratch out a livi...
THE FACE OF AN ANGEL, A DEVIL'S HEART! A baby-faced murderer is leaving a trail of corpses across the Montana Territory. A killing machine in boots, Ned Larson has already sent one unlucky lawman to an early grave. And Longarm is next on this bloo...
DENVER DOUBLE CROSS A bloodthirsty gang of murdering bandits is kicking up trouble in Longarm's territory. Everybody reckons that the back-shootin' ringleader is the man folks call "Big" Little. A man Longarm had called friend. Longarm's duty-b...
PHANTOM BULLETS! Longarm had seen the way grown men trembled with fear at the merest mention of the Red Sash Gang. These infamous outlaws rode a hideous trail of butchery and vandalism from Texas to Montana, killing every man, woman, and child unl...
A BLOODY LAND WAR! The fight over the notorious Rio Arriba territory seemed like small potatoes at first. But now the tug-of-war is turning deadly. And rumor has it some mighty big hotshots are involved--including a U.S. marshal! Longarm smells...
JESSIE AND KI -- BITTER ENEMIES? Longarm can't believe his ears. A gang of Starbuck ranch hands has been arrested for rustling and murder -- and Ki is the ringleader! The marshal reckons some fool has made a mighty big mistake...until he learns th...
NO MAN'S LAND That's what they call the worthless strip of dirt above the Texas panhandle...a rattlesnake's nest of thieves and varmints. And Longarm's after the most yellow-bellied snake of all, a con artist who sold deeds to the bone-dry land --...
A NOT-SO-FRIENDLY WELCOME... One U.S. marshal's been murdered and two others scared off for good. So Billy Vail sends Longarm to the troubled town in Montana where a vicious "vigilance committee" has taken its bloody war on rustlers a mite too far...
THE WILDEST WEST OF ALL The Osage Strip is ten pounds of trouble in a five-pound sack. It's home to the exiled Indian Nation -- and a haven where outlaws can lie as low as a sidewinder's belly button. Now Longarm's had word that the Strip is harbo...
THE MOST VICIOUS VERMIN IN THE WEST Jason Tanner isn't just mean. He's crazy. Tanner likes to take hostages during bank stickups, then tease the lawmen by leaving parts of his victims along his getaway trail. Longarm put him away where he belonged...
Pine Hill County landowner Brian Levinson wants to extend his influence, and so runs for sheriff, letting little stand in the way of his ambition, including the current sheriff and the law-minded Longarm...
Hired to transport killer K.C. Caswell, Deputy Custis Long arrives to find that Caswell has flown the coop, and he must follow a trail of his victims along the New Mexico railroad line and into the gun barrel of a former partner...
Sent to settle a war brewing between the soldiers and civilians of Cimarron City, U.S. Deputy Marshal Long discovers that Willard Sherman, a greed-crazed colonel, has plans to sell the city down the river. Original....
When a friend is brutally murdered, Longarm sets out to hunt down the killer, the Cheyenne Kid, and his band of thugs, who specialize in kidnapping other men's wives and hunting innocent people for sport. Original....
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When half a million dollars disappears from the U.S. Treasury Office in Grants Pass, Longarm steps in to investigate and discovers that the thief, a deadly killer, is hell-bent on keeping his booty. Original....
DEADLY LEGEND OR LIVING KILLER? There's a gunman on a rampage, and Longarm's his next target when he troubleshoots for a military detail through El Paso. Trouble is, this madman's hard to meet face to face.... The natives call him the Fool Killer--a...
NEST OF CORRUPTION It's the calmest spot in El Paso County...Even the local crime in Palmer Lake amounts to little more than a few rustled cows. But appearances are deceiving and deadly--as Longarm tracks the rustlers to the spread of an ambiti...
HELL HATH NO FURY... Wherever Longarm goes, his luck is bad. On the train to Nevada, three low-down varmints try to bushwhack him. And when he tries to look up a friend in Virginia City, he finds out the man's in prison for robbery. Turns out that i...
A DEADLY MACHINE--OR A VICIOUS PLOT? There's a rampaging gunman on the loose, and he aims to put Longarm dead between his sights. There's just one problem: This backshooter's made of tin and operates on a wind-up spring. The carnival folk call him K...
MURDERED CAVALRY...MISTAKEN IDENTITY When Longarm takes to the canyons in response to an urgent appeal from General Sherman, he expects Indian trouble. Since the death of Kit Carson in '68, snipers in rimrock hideaways have turned Four Corners Cou...
Rescued from a crowded courtroom hours before he is to hang, French Lemond is whisked to safety by two gun-toting sisters, and it is up to Longarm to track down the accused man and bring him to justice...
When an explosion set by train robbers blows Longarm and his fellow passengers off the tracks, Longarm sets out to find the parties responsible, a mission that leads to the death of a man with dangerous friends in high places...
Deputy Marshal Long encounters unexpected trouble--including backshooting desperadoes and a mysterious epidemic--when he sets out to escort a federal prisoner to Colorado from the quiet seaport of Escondrijo, Texas...
As a cold-blooded killer stalks the members of the secret Last Man Club, Longarm sets out to warn the society's members of the threat, only to become embroiled with a lovely saloon girl and her brutally abusive boss. Original....
When the prisoner he was supposed to transport turns up dead at the hands of local marshall Frank Nemo, U.S. Marshal Long investigates and discovers that Nemo has a suspicious history of killing escaped suspects. Original....
CALL ONE MURDER AND RAISE ANOTHER TWO... Riding Colorado's silver boom, the mining town of Holy Cross attracts all kinds of low-down trash...including the mysterious drifting gambler One-Eyed Jack McBride, a high roller who hates to lose. But when M...
Longarm tracks a killer arsonist responsible for the destruction of a Denver rooming house, the murder of its inhabitants, and the theft of a fortune in treasury notes into Santee country, where hostile Indians are primed to protect their land. Origi...
When Duke Albright and his gang of killers begin posting fences that rob homesteaders of their cattle and water, shooting anyone who attempts to stop them, Longarm realizes it will take more than courage to bring them to justice. Original....
Longarm must rescue his fellow passengers when a train he is riding on is hijacked by Lieutenant James Meadows, a cavalry deserter, and his pack of renegade soldiers, who begin shooting their hostages. Original....
Disregarding local fears that a legendary tribe of cannibals has returned when two sailors are discovered with their hearts cut out, Longarm pursues the truth until he is shanghaied and left for dead on a slave ship...
SOLDIER SLAUGHTER San Angelo is a town as dry as a whore's kiss--and equally sincere when a man's time is up. Even the Indians don't bother making trouble down that way. So Longarm doesn't understand why soldiers from Fort Concho are being picked ...
A PIECE OF CAKE...OR IS IT? Longarm's got an easy enough chore: catch a train to California, pick up a prisoner, and deliver him to Denver. His crime? Mail theft. Longarm jumps at the chance. All aboard for some R&R. But Buster Hoover isn't an ...
Longarm, ordered to escort a beautiful woman convicted of murder to prison, thinks he will have an easy time of it, until he finds himself in love and determined to prove her somewhat questionable innocence. Original....
Posing as a first-class lady-killer, Longarm goes undercover to nab the most wanted family in the West--the Killions, a gang of horse thieves and train robbers notorious for their ability to outwit the law...
On the trail of a wanted mail thief who has a penchant for killing U.S. marshals, Longarm travels through the frozen gold towns of the Wisconsin Territory and encounters the steamy Maddy Williams. Original....
When beautiful widow Constance Farnsworth is threatened to give up her ownership of a railroad line in the Colorado Mountains, she hires Longarm for protection, forcing him to choose between his badge and the lady's virtue. Original....
When a man suspected of sleeping with a married woman is shot by the jealous husband, Longarm prepares for a simple arrest, until the husband, looking to escape his sentence, accuses Longarm of also sleeping with the woman. Original....
Directed by the U.S. Attorney General to track down the man responsible for killing a Texas postmaster, Longarm is disgusted when the people of Addington care more about dirty politics and power games than they do about the murdered man. Original....
Tracking down the lawless Dan Marlow, who has killed fifteen men and survived at least a dozen bullet wounds, Longarm believes that he has put the outlaw six feet under, but rumors claim that Marlow is still alive. Original....
Tracking a lawman who has turned bad after fifteen years, Longarm hopes to stop Shaw before the man reaches Mexico, but once cornered in a deserted cabin, the outlaw proves more deadly than Longarm originally suspected...
NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL The Brazos Devil is a smelly, seven-foot-tall mankiller -- half-man, half-bear, and all hair. It tore four men limb from limb. It kidnapped the wife of the richest man in Cottonwood Springs. And it gave Longarm's prisoner...
Becoming involved with the beautiful Hannah Diver, Longarm learns that Hannah and her nine sisters are repeatedly married off to outlaw land owners, who promptly die off shortly after the weddings. Original....
After rescuing a local beauty from a barroom brawl, Longarm finds himself railroaded into jail and sentenced to hard labor in Mexico, until the fetching young lady whom he rescued sets out to break him out of the jail. Original....
A thief has been following a traveling baseball team around the country, robbing local post offices while their games are in progress, and now Longarm will have to play by the rules when he joins the team in order to catch the bandit. Original....
Escorting convicted lawman killer Ford Oakley who is returning to Denver to be hanged, Longarm is injured by the prisoner's cronies, who help Ford to escape and threaten to kill Longarm if he interferes...
Guarding convict Harmony Drake during a train ride to Colorado, where the outlaw is scheduled to hang, Longarm begins a fast-paced pursuit when his charge escapes, a situation that is complicated by the attentions of a beautiful and devious nurse...
Going undercover to expose a customs inspector who has been permitting tick-infested cattle to enter from Mexico, Longarm is unaware the the beautiful Dulcima is actually the girlfriend of his enemy. Original....
When a renegade band of cowboys called the Minute Men take over a town and begin executing anyone who stands in their way, everyone is too terrified to do anything until Longarm demonstrates his personal brand of law enforcement. Original....
Becoming involved with the beautiful and lusty Cassidy twins, Longarm refuses to believe that they are responsible for the deaths of his partners and a traveling senator, until he begins suffering suspicious accidents...
Learning that Richard Harding is keeping ex-wife Sarah prisoner on a dirty Mexican ranch and forcing her to wait on his friends, Longarm plans a rescue mission and earns the feisty woman's gratitude. Original....
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SECRET ASSASSIN There are probably a million James Smiths in the world, but there's only one who used to be a paid government assassin. Only one whose wife and kid got murdered by the Marble Gang. And only one who's chas...
Going undercover to bring down the Coltons, who ship moonshine whiskey, evade taxes, and have the law under their thumb, Longarm attracts Sally Colton and is disgusted when her family insists they get married. Original....
Trying to clean up the troubled town of Grit, where two cattle barons are stealing land and setting loose their men on the innocent locals, Longarm offers special assistance to the revenge-seeking widow Thompson. Original....
Stranded in tiny Kittstown during a snowstorm, Longarm enjoys poker and drinks with the locals, until an attractive young woman is murdered, prompting Longarm to hunt down the killer and investigate the crooked mayor. Original....
Sent to the Oregon timber country to settle a feud that threatens to ignite a vicious war between ranchers and the lumber industry, Longarm finds himself torn between two lovely women, one a widow who heads up the local lumber camp and the other, a p...
While enjoying a much-needed vacation, Longarm is forced to come to the aid of an old friend being hunted for a fortune in Spanish gold and to rescue a lovely young lady kidnapped by one of the West's most disreputable and disgusting outlaws. Origina...
While hunting down a gang of lowlifes, Longarm tackles the more difficult mystery of Miss Glynnis Mathry, a Welsh writer who proves more desirable than he can resist and who harbors a suspicious agenda of her own. Original....
ALL'S FAIRE IN LOVE AND WAR Janet Faire was Longarm's first love. So sweet. So gentle. So loving. She was the last person Longarm figured on seeing in a one-horse Colorado town. But before she and Longarm have a chance to make up for lost time, some...
The Civil War has been over for some time now, but somebody out there has not heard the news and all over the West, Union war heroes and their families are turning up dead, until Longarm's army sets out to put an end to the Rebel executioner. Origina...
When half of a deputy federal marshal's body is pulled from a New Orleans swamp, Longarm is sent to investigate and discovers that the truth about the case may lie in the hands of a mysterious voodoo-practicing Cajun beauty named Claudette. Original....
Teaming up with an ornery Texas Ranger to guard high-level border talks between the United States and Mexico, Longarm is discouraged when the partnership begins with a brawl over the buxom Anna Marie. Original....
Relaxing in his favorite saloon, Longarm watches a woman gun down the drifter sitting next to him, and in his search for the vigilante, encounters a band of wild and dangerous Wyoming women who are pretty--and dangerous. Original....
When a gun-wielding Hopi kachina dancer and his gang rob the Durango stagecoach, Longarm joins the posse--along with a feisty lady reporter from England--to search the ancient cliff dwellings of the Mesa Verde. Original....
Longarm must decide whether to keep trailing a trio of bank robbers or stay in the enticing clutches a the wily widow who wants him to take the place of her late husband, Whisky Creek's last marshal. Original....
Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!When three train robbers turn up dead in a saloon, the finger points to none other than the Calgary Kid--a sinister, hard-drinking cuss who can draw a gun quick as lightning and shoot t...
Longarm rides in to defend his old friend, Stella, from an angry town when her fiance+a7--a minister--is found with a stiletto in his chest and Stella's past as a knife-wielding prostitute catches up with her. Original....
BOMBSHELL! The commissioner for Indian Affairs is in Denver to settle a dispute between the ranchers and Ute Indians over cattle grazing rights. But fighting's the last thing on Longarm's mind. He's looking forward to a week's leave with that shapely...
Longarm heads to San Francisco to rid the city from the secret, gold-digging gangs of thieves who run its Chinatown section, a daunting challenge which requires just the right combination of violence and cunning. Original....
Longarm has his hands full when he is forced to play bodyguard to the most zealous teetotaler in the West, Big Hatchet Belcher, who comes to Denver to chop open its beer barrels in the name of God and temperance...
SHAFTED! Those three Irish miners weren't afraid to blast a mighty chunk of gold-flecked blossom rock in the decrepit mine shafts of the Comstock Lode. But when a shrieking banshee emerged from the smoke and rubble, you bet they were scared -- to de...
Just when Longarm finally corners the law-breaking Hunsacker clan in a Nevada ghost town, three pretty ladies claiming to be betrothed to the Hunsacker boys ride in, making Longarm suspect a trap, with beauty as the bait. Original....
When it comes to busting bad bills, Longarm's giving this counterfeiter the strongarm!There's hell to pay for a mountain outlaw with a set of U.S. Treasury plates -- and a fortune in bum bucks won't be enough to cover the bill Longarm's come to deliv...
Two suspected killers were on the loose, caught up in an illegal gunrunning scam. And no federal, state or local lawman could arrest them -- because the lily-livered cusses from Denmark had diplomatic immunity. But a hostile witness, who'd turned tai...
GUNFIRE IN GALENA CITY Mallory's gang is heisting silver shipments -- and killing anyone who gets in their way. When Longarm hears they've killed his latest lady friend, he heads out to Galena City, gunning for revenge. But the deputy marshal ge...
Longarm rides to rescue of his old mentor!Marshall Norman Wold of Kansas is in jail. But Wold is one of the finest lawmen Longarm has ever known. That means just one thing: Longarm has to go in there and straighten things out....
A courtroom jailbreak leaves Longarm in the dust!Longarm couldn't be happier that Devil Dave Devereux is finally on trial for murder, until gun shots ring out in the courtroom -- and Devil Dave is nowhere to be found when the smoke clears....
Longarm beats the bushes for a blushing bride!Voodoo and murder are the way a dirty bail-bond outfit does its business--until Longarm shows up to straighten out their books....
After a man tries to shoot him in the back for no apparent reason, Longarm takes on the identity of a dead man to go undercover to investigate a murderous Texas bail-bond outfit with a nasty reputation and an unhealthy interest in voodoo. Original....
When Longarm visits the town of Goldstrike for an overdue vacation and to call on his friend Wade, the local sheriff, Wade is shot dead in an ambush and Longarm takes the law into his own hands to find the killer. Original....
Custis Long finds himself knee deep in sheep when he goes undercover to protect a group of Wyoming sheepherders from the local cattle folk, who will stop at nothing, even murder, to drive them out of the state. Original....
Longarm is called in by a cowardly sheriff to corral six escaped convicts, dead or alive, but his mission becomes complicated when he discovers that the wanted outlaws are six beautiful ladies. Original....
Some dirty diaries give Longarm clues to a killer!When two spinsters inherit a former whorehouse -- and stumble on the incriminating journals of the scarlet woman who once ran the place--it's up to Longarm to fend off danger and keep these very lovin...
A DEBT PAID IN BLOOD Longarm was enjoying an overdue vacation in Flagstaff, Arizona, when his boss, Billy Vail, telegraphed with an emergency job. A gang of outlaws was making a handsome living robbing, murdering, and violating citizens for hundre...
CLEAN LIVING, DIRTY DYING Longarm felt good, damn good. Until Marshal Vail got orders to send him to a Colorado spa -- and it ain't for a facial. Turns out the elite retreat is owned by a big-shot doctor, and the U.S. Justice Department wants Cust...
DEAD DRUNK Moonshine or firewater -- whatever label is slapped on the jug, Longarm calls it trouble. Not that the buyers -- a bunch of liquored-up cowboys squatting on the Kansas border -- are a threat to anything other than clean living. The prob...
NEWLYWED...OR NEWLY DEAD? Fiona Palmer was abducted on her honeymoon and taken into Mexico. The culprit is none other than El Pico, the notorious bandit and revolutionary -- who will return Fiona to her husband if the wealthy Palmer family agrees...
Five killer outlaws, one killer beauty, and a night Longarm will never forget...Longarm's trapped up in the Ruby Mountains with a bad spell of amnesia -- and a woman too wild to ever forget. And until Longarm gets his senses back, he's got no choice ...
A SHORT FUSE Little Elm, Kansas, was a peaceful frontier community -- until the town got blasted to splinters. A gang of bank robbers dealing in dynamite have decimated the town. Finding their methods a little excessive -- and explosive -- for your ...
DANCING WITH THE DEVIL Welcome to Cairo...but this ain't Egypt. It's a silver town in Nevada, where a foursome of fierce riders just heisted a post office, but only one escaped with his life. So where's the cash? Before one of 'em kicked the bucke...
THE CONSUMMATE LAWMAN There's something rotten behind the scenes of Colonel Jasper Pettigrew's Wild West Show, and U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is ready for his big entrance. The Bureau of Indian Affairs believes that the show's Indian sharpshoot...
Longarm investigates a web of deception surrounding a Senator and his deadly wife -- a notorious Black Widow with a bite as poisonous as her namesake. ...
Longarm tangles with some bad Samaritans when he goes undercover!Longarm goes undercover to lead a group of Christian Cherokee down Mexico way in search of some missionaries rumored to be stranded there. He reckons it won’t be easy, what with nosy ...
The price of gold just went up, and Longarm’s paying -- with his life…Deputy Marshal Custis Long may not like his new assignment -- bodyguarding a visiting nobleman -- but he’s going to stick to the English mucky-muck like a burr. Especially si...
THE BLOOD-SPATTERED BRIDE Custis Long's about to get hitched to an upstanding lady who's got a fine young son. With this ready-made family he's looking to settle down as a Colorado cattle rancher. Too good to last? You bet. She just ate lead during ...
Longarm’s guarding some heavenly bodies…Longarm’s used to getting the toughest jobs, and an assignment to guard the president’s “do-gooder” granddaughter and her rich, spoiled cronies is no exception. His mission is to travel with the “...
U.S. Marshal Long journeys to the small town of Gilead to find out what transformed mild-mannered Professor MacLennon into a mad bomber who is threatening to blow up the president of the United States. Original....
Longarm GIANT novels...the biggest and best in Western adventure!In Ambush, Colorado, four men accused of murdering denizens of a local cat house are scheduled to be hanged. But the hangman’s daughter tells Longarm that one of the condemned di...
Longarm’s making a special delivery…It’s a chilly Spring in the Arkansas mountains, where Longarm is tracking down a bandit who’s robbed a passel of postmen -- and just added murder to his bag of tricks. Longarm’s prepared to follow the tra...
Longarm better settle a land dispute -- or someone might settle him six feet under…When a long-standing land dispute turns ugly down in New Mexico, the Feds send Custis Long to have a look. Somebody backshot old Tom McCabe. But just because Don Ale...
Longarm looks to hog-tie a killer on the loose…Custis Long’s always been a loner, but now he’s got a partner to watch his back -- whether he wants one or not. There’s a killer leaving unlucky prospectors cut from ear to ear and it’s up to L...
Longarm's met uglier, meaner men than Henry Starr -- and he shot them, too...Being a lawman isn’t all about romancin’ the ladies -- but lately you wouldn’t know it from watching Longarm work. Marshal Billy Vail’s determined to send Longarm on...
Longarm’s looking to lasso a felonious female…Custis T. Long’s a sucker for a pretty gal, but he’s never let that cloud his judgment -- until now. When Miss Alvina Lockwood came along and begged him to bail her “innocent” brother out of a...
Longarm’s got to snag a killer -- before he gets stung.Custis T. Long has plenty he’d rather be doing than investigating an old friend on a brand new murder charge. But just as he’s leaving for a visit to a pretty little Santa Fe senorita, a ca...
Longarm’s looking for guns in all the wrong places!Longarm is assigned to recover a cache of Army rifles stolen out of Texas and smuggled across the border into Mexico. A wild bandit named Mendoza and a faction of insurgents known as Los Ninos de L...
Longarm rides south to rein in some outlaws… Longarm’s looking forward to some way-overdue R&R -- but his boss has other ideas. Seems a gang of rowdy outlaws is stirring up trouble in the most untamed part of the West -- a wild little se...
Longarm longs to send this posse a-packin’!Everybody in Denver remembers the ruthless massacre at a local bank ’round five years back, but not a living soul has seen hide nor hair of the posse since. The murderers scooted out of town with a good ...
Longarm heads to a town called Hardwater to find out why the dying is easy…When hard-livin’ bully Cracker Marner finally ran out of luck, dying came easy. A few shots to the chest by a smaller man with a bigger hat. That’s all anyone at the sal...
Longarm’s tracking a fugitive -- and treading on thin ice!If there’s one thing U.S. Deputy Marshal Long can’t stand, it’s a yeller witness who heads for the hills just when the law needs him most. Harrison Dodge is one such lily-livered sleaz...
Longarm locks horns with a lead-slinging lovely!While riding the plains of Utah, two census-takers venture deep into Mormon country -- and end up six feet deeper. Someone wants to keep the U.S. government in the dark about the local population -- and...
Longarm’s in for a cauldron of trouble with these ladies!Lawman Custis Long is in town on the trail of some no-good owlhoots. An easy enough chase, he reckons, but after a visit with the town’s most infamous lady of the night, Longarm realizes th...
Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long heads for the border city of El Paso to extradite a prisoner from Mexico, only to find himself dealing with uncooperative FederalTs and an unknown enemy who wants him dead. Original....
Longarm’ll have to pay some lip service to this sassy señorita!When two prominent politicos turn up dead, one self-righteous Arizona town pins it on the local madame, “Big Lips” Lilly, faster than she can say “not guilty.” So Deputy U.S. M...
Longarm’s got his eyes on justice, and his hands on the Defense!As a US Deputy Marshal, Custis Long has gone after more than his fare share of trouble. But when trouble runs right into him -- wearing a blood-stained night gown no less -- he knows h...
DOUBLE THE FUN Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is going deep undercover to track down a mysterious murderin' madwoman known only as Twisted Sister. Her territory is the Staked Plains of Texas, where a range war is brewing between old and new Dutch...
Longarm goes after a murderous gang of mountain madmen!There’s trouble afoot in the Ozark Mountain region of Arkansas, where a gang of low-down leadslingers is knocking off a series of stagecoaches and banks. But it’s also the territory of legend...
These spooky strumpets don’t stand a ghost of a chance!There’ve been plenty of tall tales goin’ around about long-dead madams and passed-on pimps acting all too lively out near Animas Point. And far be it from Deputy Custis Longarm to let...
DEATH ON THE RANCH When Longarm hightails it to the Arizona desert for a dose of rest and relaxation, he isn't looking to stir up trouble. But from the moment he witnesses a man being gunned down by a lead-slinging lawman at the Crystal Palace Sal...
In a town full of ladies, Longarm does his duty. And he does his job, too.Longarm figures checking up on the Harrisonville post office will be a no-hassle assignment. He figures wrong. Dead wrong. The people of Harrisonville are fishy with mor...
The desert sun, two smoldering sisters, and a criminal packing heat sure can burn a fella!For years, a certain sleazy customs officer by the name Braddock has been turning a pretty penny on the Mexican border. Not by doing right by Uncle Sam, but by ...
Any man would fear her -- but Longarm isn’t just any man.She stands six-foot-six, and usually over the body of someone who got in her way. She goes by the name Increase Younger, and she’s willing to do anything to see that Deputy Marshal Custis L...
Longarm sends Paradise straight to hell!Marshal Monty Kilpatrick was nobody’s fool. That’s why his killers had to take him by surprise. But with a bullet in his belly, Monty knew just how to right the last wrongs of his life -- he wrote a letter ...
A Man of No Consequence John Slocum and his pard have finally steered two thousand head of cattle from Abilene, Texas, to their Kansas home. After six weeks on the trail, both men are itchin' for some company of the female kind. Abigail Stanl...
KILLER LOOKS Rutherford Peacock has it all, looks, brains, money--and a history no one seems to know about. He's about to become the new town Marshal of Reno, Nevada, and it's up to him and Longarm to find out who murdered the last one. ...
To catch these cons, Longarm will have to play by their rules. Rumor has it that Deputy Marshal Custis Long is now riding on the other side of the law -- swindling ranchers and taking bribes, just as cool as you please. But if folks’d o...
Longarm’s in a town where the deaths aren’t natural and the poison isn’t pretty!When a county commissioner claims that folks dying of natural causes have actually been murdered, Longarm thinks the man is seeing conspiracies in his sleep. But be...
A Tucson gang is on fire, but Longarm turns up the heat!A gang of killer bandits are on a spree -- hijacking gold and silver shipments and gunning down anyone who might get in their way. Longarm goes in to stick close to the wagon train owner -- only...
Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!U.S. Marshal Custis Long realizes better than anyone how the newspapers play with the truth. He knows for a fact that Clay Allison’s surly hide was laid under the sod for good. But he...
Longarm spars with a sultry trio of revolutionaries in Spur, Arizona!All hell has broken loose in a ranch settlement near the Mexican border known as Spur. Three Arizona rangers and a fellow lawman have been murdered -- and now it’s up to Deputy Ma...
Longarm finds out just how bad the bad girls of Rio Blanco can be!U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is off to Rio Blanco County to catch some thieves stealing Indian Agency cattle. Two of the rustlers are women, so it should be interesting. But Longarm...
She may kiss like a woman. But she’s willing to fight like a man.When District Attorney Tess Hayward swept the crooked marshal out with the trash she made Buffalo Ford a peace-loving place to live. But a new election’s got the town-tamer nervous....
When Longarm goes for the gold, murder is all in the family! Just when Deputy Marshal Custis Long thought he’d finally be free to rustle up a few new conquests of the feminine persuasion, two distant cousins show up toting a far-fetched tale o...
Longarm partners up with a French aristocrat in a race for lost treasure…Deputy Marshal Custis Long has no interest in putting up with the antics of an arrogant Frenchman. But though he’d like to tell the Marquis de Sant’ Cerre to take a flying...
Longarm enlists a play-pretty in a game of play-deadly!Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is out to recover fifty grand that the late Abner Prentiss hid away before being arrested -- in the company of hired gal-pal Cherry Poppin. Since Prentiss murdered...
Longarm finds an enemy’s little girl is all grown up!U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long opens his door to a visitor -- just in time to see him die in a hail of gunfire. The killers get away…and the victim leaves Longarm with the words “stolen gold...
Longarm goes gunning for a spectral Spaniard!As a favor to the Texas Rangers, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long goes undercover in the hell-raising West Texas town of Tascosa. What he finds is a do-nothing sheriff, a pair of seductive sirens, and a ran...
This time Longarm’s really in deep…They’ve kept the Santa Fe Railroad off track with three holdups. They’ve sent the marshal of Flagstaff, Arizona, to a higher justice with a well-placed bullet. They’ve pulled the wool over the eyes of the...
This case is leaving Longarm with a sour taste…U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long has been assigned to some strange cases in his time, but none stranger than the milk train holdups occurring outside the small town of Trinidad, Colorado. Instead of har...
Indians are on the war path -- and Longarm’s in the way.An Indian war party is ready to massacre a group of miners, blaming them for the murder of their clan sister. The miners say they only found the body -- and they may be telling the truth. But ...
One infamous pirate has sailors shivering in their timbers…He’s a quickdraw, a cow-punch, and a lady’s man. But lawman Custis Long will be the first to admit he’s no sailor. So when duty brings him down the Texas coast to investigate the fish...
Longarm gets brutal with a few bloodthirsty brothers!U.S. Deputy Marshal Jed King was a legend to all who carried a badge. So when a band of Montana hoodlums -- including the infamous Fagan brothers -- murder King and two of his sons, Marshal Custis ...
Longarm’s been around enough bad guys to know how to act like one…Escorting a wanted man from El Paso to Denver is a peach of an assignment for Longarm, until -- right before his eyes -- an assassin empties a six-gun into his prisoner. Ch...
Somebody with an itchy finger seems to be running the chipper…In the speck of a town called Pitchfork, it’s all for one and one for all. So if even one man gets it in his noggin to scam his neighbors, an ax-man might just forget to yell “timber...
Longarm meets some actors studying their lines -- of fire!Down in Tombstone, Arizona, some uppity types get together every payday for some invitation-only poker at a fancy-schmancy hotel. But one night, an actor in bellhop duds stages a massacre. Soo...
Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!Down in the driest parts of the southwest, gals are scarcer than water -- and some men, crazy from lust and the scorching sun, have sent away for mail-order brides. But when the womenfo...
Temptation never looked so good…When buxom Miss Boothe goes missing, Marshal Custis Long is called to find her. But following her trail takes him through the plains and straight to where rancher Grant Stockton is waiting. He’s richer than God and...
Longarm is caught in the crosshairs of a contract killer!When Marshal Custis Long busts a man and woman in a sex-and-blackmail scam, he stumbles on a big break in another case. The pair claims to know the identity of a notorious bomber who’s been r...
When these boys invite Longarm to step outside, they have no idea what they’re in for…Folks in Sioux Siding don’t take kindly to strangers. Especially one who arrives with a hand on his holster and a chip on his shoulder. But this Pitcairn’s ...
FOOL'S GOLD Only a fool would expect to find gold in the decaying Comstock Lode mines. Still, folks are buying mining shares by the linear foot. Sounds like a scam to Longarm. Especially when stock investors start disappearing. And the federal offic...
Longarm is one sure-shooting shepherd…Custis Long’s reputation as an expert animal driver lands him an unlikely assignment. The U.S. government asks him to drive 6,000 head of sheep to a Navajo reservation -- where the displaced Indians survive b...
Longarm answers the call of duty -- from Uncle Sam!The army sent out the cavalry -- but it never came back. Now it’s up to Longarm to track down sixteen men… And he won’t be riding this mission alone -- whether he likes it or not. Harri...
Longarm’s latest job is making him question his own sanity…Longarm is in a real mess this time. Billy Vail, his boss and good friend, has asked him to escort two very different men to Denver for two very different reasons. One is an accountant ch...
Longarm finds peace -- in war.Longarm has never had to try too hard to get a lady. Now he’s having a hard time shaking one. The wealthy Miss Lilly Hutton of Denver has her heart set on being Longarm’s missus. Luckily, he’s saved by the call of...
Longarm would rather leave this greenhorn out to pasture…Custis Long is none too happy at work. No more than a kid, Buck T. Skane has waltzed into town like he owns the place. And his godfather, Billy Vail, hands the little snot a job on the spot -...
Longarm races to recover a cache of cash! Ten years ago, a group of bold robbers pulled off the biggest train heist ever when they stole a million dollars in old bills, marked to be taken out of circulation and burned. The loot was never ...
Little lady…big trouble!For U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long, retrieving a fugitive from Wisconsin and escorting him to Fort Smith is one wearisome duty. Luckily, fellow traveler Miss Eloise Stephens is willing to provide Longarm with some stimulati...
A sexy songbird flies the coop.With her heavenly voice, chanteuse Miss Claire has just about every man in Denver wrapped around her little finger, but she needs a man like U.S. Marshal Custis Long to keep her alive. Notes of the not-so-musical kind h...
Longarm catches hell in the Canadian badlands! There’s trouble in the north. Young women are disappearing from Montana territory, and Custis Long is going over the border to find them. Since he has no official authority outside the U.S....
Longarm dodges death as a bigwig’s bodyguard! Custis Long likes blowhard politicians even less than unwanted publicity. But he gets hit with both barrels when he saves presidential up-and-comer Gordon Maxwell from a deranged assa...
Longarm has to rein in some rustlers…Longarm tracks some rustled army horses to Jefferson Boyd -- who swears he has government bills of sale. Longarm knows that he’s guilty, but Boyd will almost certainly beat the charge because there’s almost ...
Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!U.S. Marshal Custis Long and Royal Canadian Mountie Sergeant Foster are crossing jurisdictions trying to find the hidden town of Natova -- a secret spot where outlaws with lots of money...
BLOW UP Custis Long's riding with a shiny new deputy, so puffed up and green that Longarm can't resist calling him "Jimmy the Kid." But when they attempt to capture the Dekins gang, an exploding pocketbook grinds the Kid's face to hamburger, and lea...
Longarm’s got to spend lead -- to save face.Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is sent to Arkansas to escort a hired gun back to Colorado for trial. But Longarm only gets Famous Frank Hungerford as far as the nearest train station before he’s played...
Longarm’s about to hit this railroad gang like a freight train…Longarm is after a vicious gang that rides fast horses, carries telescopic rifles -- and is driving up the body count on the Union Pacific railroad. But he’s also up against an agin...
Longarm -- wanted dead or alive!Custis Long has had his share of hard nights followed by even harder mornings-after. But none so bad as when he wakes up in Medallion, Arizona, with a head full of pain, no memory of how he got there -- and a dead redh...
Longarm’s settling a war -- on his terms.There’s a bloody war brewing between money-hungry gold-diggers and the fierce San Carlos Apaches over the most desirable element in nature -- water. U.S. Marshal Custis Long is assigned to settle this sit...
Longarm’s out to save some souls -- from a killer…When U.S. Marshal Custis Long is ordered to find an old Indian nemesis, he knows the job is going to be rough. Many Thumbs has hopped the reservation with a band of followers, and Longarm has to f...
There’s a headstone with Longarm’s name on it…Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has bullet-holed of every member of Nate Hathaway’s gang except for the no-good desperado himself, who’s high-tailed it to a town called Lodestone. The co...
They’ve kidnapped the wrong woman -- Longarm’s!Deputy Marshal Custis Long is bringing an accused murderer to Colorado for a fair trial, when he hears tell of a gang of savage killers on the loose. But it’s not Federal business, so Longarm mosey...
Love hurts…Out west, where it’s hard to tell the lawmen from the owlhoots, there are usually more than just two sides to a story. Take the attempted murder of Robert Muldoon, Chief of the Denver Police. Custis Long figures the perpetrator must ha...
Longarm’s saddled with a she-devil!The son of a legendary Civil War hero, U.S. Deputy Marshal Bradford G. Gumm wanted to forge his own legend by bringing peace to the range war-torn region of Pine Valley, Arizona -- only to vanish before he could. ...
Longarm plays bodyguard -- and the job has its benefits… Custis Long would rather have his backside branded than act as bodyguard to Congressman Howard Palmer’s ornery, ugly wife and her daughter. Seems the suit’s liberal notions about Indian r...
Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!When Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long turns the tables on a band of stagecoach bandits, he does more than just save the day. After blasting one of the badmen, he discovers a map of Nevad...
You can run from Longarm, but you can’t hide…Killer Hangtown Harry Moon is wanted for just about every crime in the book. But Moon has kept such a low profile for so long, he can escape Denver -- and the keen eye of U.S. Deputy Marshal Long -- un...
Longarm’s lassoed with an iron horse…Someone is trying to sabotage the construction of the Toynbee and Twin Rocks Railroad. A stagecoach line, bitterly opposed to the railroad, may be behind it. But since no one can prove it, U.S. Marshal Custis ...
Longarm has a dance with death…When his boss hands him a “simple” assignment, U.S. Marshal Custis Long just knows it’s going to get complicated quick. He heads to Tascosa, Texas, where Bronson Tull of the notorious Tull family is on trial for...
GOING UP IN SMOKE The Haughton Brothers-better known as the Holy Smokes Gang-have broken free from the grips of the law. With wild ideas of overthrowing the government, they're wreaking havoc in the Rockies, preying on ore trains taking gold to t...
Beautiful -- and deadly... A murderous mountain man and his two devilish daughters are on the rampage up in the foothills of the Rockies. The beguiling beauties act as bait for unsuspecting prospectors, then the whole family -- including their ...
Longarm’s being swamped by ragin’ Cajuns…The folks in Saint Angelique, Louisiana, have a good laugh when some know-it-all kid shows up, demanding directions to Bayou Noir, where, legend has it, pirate Jean Lafitte buried his treasure. The for...
Big trouble comes in small packages…Chugwater, Wyoming is being run by the small, deadly fist of The Dwarf House Saloon. And with the mayor out of the picture, there’s just five days before its miniature, murdering proprietor makes bail and owns...
Longarm’s going to blow a prairie pirate out of the water! U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is practically vacationing at government expense in Grandview, Nevada, awaiting orders. But there’s no decent whiskey and, although “grass widow”...
The heat’s on Longarm…Tracking an outlaw to Greenwood, Kansas, U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long finds the local homesteaders are living in terror of the Hell Riders -- mounted marauders with strange costumes that seem to give them heads of flame...
This haunt’s shaking in his boots…Hightailing to Trinidad, US Deputy Marshal Custis Long is in chilling pursuit of axe-murderer Quincy ‘Spook’ Lomax. Easy to spot in a crowd by his towering height and deadly-pale skin, this ghoul’s been fil...
Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure! Felix Gaunt, with an impressively long criminal record, should have known better than to play dirty with the law. After Gaunt makes the mistake of shooting a federal employee, he...
In Mexico, Longarm has no jurisdiction, no authority -- and no rules getting in his way!When three Gatling guns are hijacked on their way to Fort Saber, the Army suspects a bronco band of Yaqui Indians from south of the Rio Grande. Teaming up with hi...
Longarm fires up Hell’s Half Acre! After U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long blasts a killer to hell in an epic gunfight, he seeks respite in Hell’s Half Acre. Notorious beyond its size, Fort Worth’s “Acre” features bullet-riddled co...
Longarm tracks a two-bit trickster!Murder is not a federal crime -- and therefore none of U.S. Marshal Custis Long’s business. Officially, that is... But when the town barber is killed for a measly bag of quarters, Longarm goes after the man...
Longarm sticks his neck out for justice.Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is just minding his own business when he rides into a town surrounded. The local lawman explains that the townsfolk lynched an innocent man, the son of a powerful rancher. Now th...
Longarm’s in love -- and belting out bullets!Longarm would be on the job in Arizona -- if he hadn’t found a wealthy heiress left for dead in Denver. After nursing Delia Hamilton back to health, not to mention killing the man who did her wrong, Lo...
A murderous undertaker wants to put Longarm six feet under... Some dame with expensive tastes and many names has left no tracks, but she has left a pattern. Seems she shacks up with rich hombres, then takes off with lotsa loot -- and it’s up ...
CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE Longarm thinks the ten-year-old stealing food in the mercantile store is just a scared kid -- until his knife and quick reflexes damn near send the deputy marshal to the happy hunting ground. And when a proper widow unexpecte...
Longarm must stem a gold rush -- with lead.Longarm heads out to Montazuma, New Mexico, where town authorities are dropping like flies. Without a mayor, marshal, or murder suspect, the town seems to have a curse on men of distinction -- and with Vice ...
One store. One saloon. One crazy town.It could be said that Yesterday, Wyoming, is a one-horse town. It has exactly one general store, one café, one whorehouse…And the man who runs the oddly-named town, the mysterious Mr. Jiggs, likes it that way....
The four sultry daughters of Howard Diamond have declared war on the citizens of Snakehead Gap, Colorado. But when Longarm goes undercover to stop them, the warm welcome he gets from the sisters isn?t shared by the gunmen they employ....
So much for happy trails. Longarm shows up in the rock-breakers' town of Happiness with a nasty knife wound courtesy of the prisoner he's lugging--and finds two poor hombres swinging, the constable missing, a cryptic note, and a whole heap of unan...
A PISTOLERA IN A PETTICOAT A ruthless killer, bribe-taker, and quick-draw now wears the badge in Buffalo Falls, Wyoming, and Longarm's been tasked with toppling him and his fast-growing empire. But Longarm's not alone. Accompanying him is Adeline Hu...
Longarm receives an offer he can’t refuse…Custis Long was just doing his duty when he rescued Lizzy Holden from a mugging. In gratitude, she entices him with everything she has to offer, including a partnership in her family’s cattle ranch in t...
Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!Up in the Owl Creek Mountains, Wyoming Territory, lies a wretched place the Indians call Valley of Skulls. Settlers there have had a whole heap of bad luck -- including a posse of hoode...
Longarm’s in for the ride of his life…When Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is dispatched down Pecos way to put a stop to some stagecoach robbers, he finds himself facing down a ruthless businessman who’s not above cold-blooded murder. No sooner...
Devils River doesn?t offer much beyond ice-cold beer and a bodacious blacksmith who looks to Longarm like she can bang more than an anvil. But when Longarm throws killer Dolphus Lasher in jail, the entire murderous Lasher clan decides to paint the to...
One wrong shot is all it takes…Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long accused of manslaughter for gunning down a fellow lawman? Say it ain’t so! But if it ain’t, then why is Marshal Billy Vail demanding his badge? And why has Longarm hit the bottle, g...
Longarm’s playing hide-and-seek and shoot-to-kill…The last lawmen who went sniffing after deranged killer Simon Grimm ended up headless, strung up in a lean-to. But Deputy Marshal Long has hightailed it from Denver to the flyspeck town of Mesquit...
There’s no rest for the wicked -- or for Longarm…Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is none too keen on his latest assignments: pushing papers at the boss’s office, then babysitting some rich hombre traveling with a king’s ransom. But Longarm’...
Where there’s Longarm, there’s hell to pay…Deputy U.S. Marshall Long’s latest assignment is to deliver Erroll “Bone” McCluskey in one piece to Bismarck, where a hangman and undertaker await. And there’s nothing more Longarm would rather...
When Longarm’s in town, it’s win, lose…and die. Deputy U. S. Marshal Custis Long can think of lots of fun ways to spend his birthday. But, tracking down a stolen stagecoach stash in a remote mining community complete with greedy lowl...
WHEN REVENGE IS INVOLVED, JUSTICE IS NEVER BLIND Charlie Bugg is a murdering, thieving scoundrel -- and it's up to Deputy U.S. Marshal Long to bring him to justice. Longarm tracks down the thief and quickly apprehends him, but the deputy soon learn...
VENGEANCE IS MINE, SAYS LONGARM When a band of thievin' cutthroats bushwhacks Longarm's old friend, peg-leg Richard Collins, the lawman vows to bring them to justice. But the local sheriff warns him off. It may be personal, but it sure ain't federal...
Longarm’s got news for some slimy prospectors -- and it ain’t good…She’s a loyal daughter, a hard worker, a wild lover -- and for some vicious men, Cindy Allison is good as dead. In Denver, she’s been pinching pennies to save her parents’...
UNDER FIRE... Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has had plenty of impossible missions. But his new undercover assignment riding shotgun for a robbery-plagued stagecoach line started out bad and quickly got worse. The gang he's after has four stolen st...
After a pistol-whipping from Sierra Sue, Longarm can barely remember who he is. But as the cobwebs start to clear, he's determined to bring the feisty female to justice....
Amidst a rushing flood, an armed French dandy has kidnapped Longarm's lady- friend, an heiress, for ransom. Now Longarm will have to keep his head above water if he wants to save their lives....
THE VALLEY OF DEATH! Deputy Marshal Custis Long has been sent to the blood-soaked rangelands of Texas to quell a rampage of violence. It began when a powerful ranch fenced in its smaller neighbors -- and now the entire valley is about to explode like...
When a beautiful Indian woman drops into Deputy Marshal Custis Long's arms with a bullet hole in her head, he vows to find her murderer, no matter where he has to go-or who he has to shoot....
LONGARM's caught in a desert double cross. After a sandstorm blows over, Longarm finds himself in the middle of an abandoned town that was previously hidden under sand. And he marks the spot where some hidden loot was buried, drawing thieves like ...
JAILBIRD Of the many men Longarm's brought to the gallows, most proclaimed their innocence. But Neal Bird, who's set to swing for killing a shopkeeper and an Arapaho girl, might not be spinning yarns. Trouble is, the man's yellow lawyers have aband...
For Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long, some well-deserved R&R with a well-appointed woman turns into a hunt for gold. But after his companion's father is killed, Longarm will have to put the quest for justice before the rush for riches....
The mining town of Sully Creek is shivering in terror. Three victims have been found with their heads in their laps--literally. To catch the maniac before he strikes again, Longarm has no choice but to stick out his own neck....
HER AIM IS TRUE... Custis Long and his lady friend Lucy are having a lovely picnic and swim until they are ambushed by five hooded men with blazing rifles. When Lucy is mortally wounded, Longarm vows revenge -- but he's not the only one. Lucy's sist...
RAINING CATS AND A LAWDOG When Longarm rides into the usually dry Warhorse, Arizona Territory, torrential storms greet him. But he's only in town long enough to find and arrest Ed Galloway, train robber and murderer of Longarm's friend. Then some v...
LONGARM'S GOING SOUTH... Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long's been sent down El Paso way to break up a smuggling ring dealing in human cargo -- Chinese laborers. Going undercover using the alias Nathan James, Longarm waits for his moment to catch the s...
A LADY WITH A BADGE AND A CHEST TO PIN IT ON. Longarm's bound for Santiago to retrieve a prisoner -- a young killer by the name of Wesley Wade -- when his stagecoach is attacked. The bushwhackers work for Wade's father, a powerful rancher who aims t...
IN MONUMENT VALLEY SIZE MATTERS With a reputation that precedes him, Longarm is one larger-than-life lawman. Now he's taken on his biggest challenge yet -- a former federal marshal who's gone rogue, abducting his beautiful ex-wife and hiding out in ...
COLD WAR U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long's latest assignment is to escort Countess Lilyana Ivanovna and her Cossack party into the Rocky Mountains to hunt game. Spoiled and prone to irrational rages, the Russian beauty sees the lawman as nothing mor...
On a fast track to some masked mayhem... GIANT action! GIANT adventure! To help a railroad baron who's laying down line in Wyoming, Longarm's issuing some outlaws a one-way ticket to hell....
NOT LONGARM'S KIND OF CATFIGHT Longarm's got a six-legged problem -- and he only has two hands! The two-legged problem is one Delbert Schrank, who's ready to sing like a canary to put the notorious Jennings bunch behind bars. That is, if Longarm can...
HAS LONGARM REACHED THE END OF HIS ROPE? After an ill-advised indiscretion with his greedy landlady, Longarm is forced to defend himself against her jealous husband. But after the gun smoke clears, the woman accuses Longarm of assaulting her and mur...
SICKO The moment Gideon Horne kills an upstanding man of the law, Longarm knows he'll track the infamous bad man from here to kingdom come, just to make sure he meets his maker. But catching up to his quarry in the Death Valley town of Panamint, he ...
Longarm's just been assigned to a mountain of trouble. Guarding Cynthia Larimer looked like a walk in the park-until they got to the Lunatic Mountains, where her uncle hunts a special kind of prey: man....
When his boss's beautiful sister disappears right after her wedding, Longarm's the best man to get her back. If the groom hurts one hair on her head, Longarm will take his own vow-of vengeance....
Charlie Cade was a small-time mail thief. So maybe Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long's guard was down-until a lady passenger poked a gun in his ribs and her partner pulled over their stagecoach. The couple took Long's Colt .45-and then they took away h...
HELL TO PAY When someone steals the Star of Father Cristobal from a mission in San Antonio, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is called on to recover the religious relic. But with no witnesses to the theft, it's gonna take a miracle to get it back. T...
THIS ONE'S FOR THE OLD MAN... Grief-stricken Arlis Pine blames Longarm for the death of her father. Marshal Alvin Pine ended up in a pine box after the Sager gang strung him up for arresting their leader Del Sager -- and Longarm wasn't around to sto...
TOWN WITHOUT PITY... The only thing that stands between the townspeople of Bennett, Colorado, and the ruthless Cranston gang is Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long. The youngest Cranston brother was left to freeze to death after being tossed out of a lo...
THIS WON'T HURT A BIT... The friendly nurses tending to a wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long give a whole new meaning to working the night shift. But despite the bedside manner of these angels dressed in white, Longarm has serious business to a...
A gang of gorgeous grim reapers has been leaving a trail of bullet- riddled corpses. Longarm needs to bring them in, but they have plans for the lawman. Longarm figures if these wild women are going to try to take him out, he'll go with a bang....
Longarm vows to find the coward who shot an old man in the back. But when the trail leads to an actual castle in the desert, Longarm realizes it's not a mirage-especially when he's taken prisoner....
The powerful Ramsey family is seeing red after favorite son Horace Ramsey is gunned down by U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long. Never mind that Longarm killed him in the line of duty to stop him from assaulting Mrs. Rose Delamonte. Ramsey blood has been...
NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER Babe Younger -- cousin to the infamous Cole Younger -- has shot his last bank manager. Thanks to the testimony of eyewitness Josephine Pritchard, the outlaw has been duly executed at the end of a hangman's rope. But in a touc...
Longarm is sent to head off a range war in Wyoming Territory. The winners will get the grass-and the losers will be buried beneath it....
SINK OR SWIM? Judge Quinn and his lovely young wife have disappeared without a trace. The couple was last seen taking a boat ride on the Colorado River -- and now three river guides have been found with their throats slit. To get to the bottom of th...
Longarm comes to Fort Marion to extradite prisoner Anton Gardner, who robbed a military payroll and killed seven men. But when he's set upon by too many enemies to handle, Gardner escapes with Longarm's badge and impersonates him. One thing's for sur...
IT'S RAINING BULLETS AND BUCKSHOT Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long's got no stomach for yellow-bellied killers -- but when a gang of outlaws takes to decapitating deputies, it's Longarm who loses his head. The worst of the bunch is a wild hellcat b...
Longarm helps out a former Texas Ranger with a gold claim. When raiders come under cover of night with guns and torches, Longarm's waiting to make short work of them....
LUCK BE A LADY At first glance one might think fortune has smiled on the lovely, redheaded Lucy Horton. But as U.S. Marshal Custis Long soon discovers, she is fleeing a tragic past in Philadelphia -- and dodging armed assassins on the streets of ...
BURNING BED In her youth, her fiery temper and wild ways earned her the nickname Naughty Nellie. But this close kin to Marshal Billy Vail is no killer -- at least Billy doesn’t think so. A jury in Carson City disagrees, and they’ve sentenced ...
NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES When you mess with the mail, you mess with Longarm. Two mail bags have been stolen from a Union Pacific train -- and the postal worker guarding them has a bullet hole in his skull. Since there are no signs of forced entry, ...
AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH... It started with a botched robbery. When the smoke cleared, one Railer brother was dead and another was led In handcuffs to the town Jail by Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long. Longami was only passing through the town...
MISSING LINK Deputy Marshal Link St. Clair is missing in action. Last seen hot on the trail of train robbers outside of Cheyenne, the lost lawman hasn't been heard from since -- and now it's the job of Deputy Marshal Custis Long to find the fed. Bu...
LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK There’s nothing funny about the cold-blooded crimes of the bank robber and murderer known as Laughing Lyle May. After he robbed the Stoneville bank, he trapped the tellers and patrons inside -- and set the place ab...
DADDY'S LITTLE DOUBLE CROSSER Longarm has tangled with some dirty double-crossers in his day, but the luscious Lacy Sackett may be the dirtiest of them all. She’s used her feminine wiles to hoodwink a long list of men -- her banker father, the out...
PLUMMER'S HELPER That's what Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has become. In fact they can chisel it on his tombstone because new deputy Henry Plummer is bound to get him killed. Longarm's boss has asked him to take the mayor's son under his wing ...
ALL THAT HAVEN WILL ALLOW... After some Arizona Rangers and U.S. marshals are bushwhacked while looking for a stolen cache of gold, it’s Longarm’s turn to ride down to the border town of Holy Defiance to find the killers and the loot. At hi...
HIGHWAY ROBBERY When hooded stagecoach robbers accidentally steal a strongbox containing U.S. mail along with their loot, they make the mistake of committing a federal crime -- and tangling with Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long. The robbers have...
WHO'S BAYING AT THE MOON? The town of Crazy Kate, once known as Little Bucharest, was renamed after Katarina Barkova not only went mad after a wolf killed her beau but -- legend has it -- turned into a werewolf. When Longarm rides in with a pris...
A BOY AND HIS DOG Fourteen-year-old Bodie may be able to take down an assailant with a two-shot derringer, but the kid is still a long way from being able to take care of himself and his wounded wolf dog, Homer. After Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Lo...
LOSING HIS MEMORY COULD MEAN LOSING HIS LIFE... Badly beaten and left for dead, Longarm is rescued by a family of good Samaritans. But he can’t remember his name, his profession, or what happened to him. After being nursed back to health, Longar...
LADY KILLER The name makes cavalrymen cower, hard cases head for the hills, and bandidos cry, "¡Vámonos!” They call her Señorita Revenge. Savage and merciless, she and her band of kill-crazy Kiowa have been cutting down soldiers like blades o...
CUREN TOWN POPULATION: 365 PEOPLE WHO WANT LONGARM DEAD: SAME It should have been a routine prisoner pickup. But when Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long arrives in Curen Town, the young offender's father--who happens to run the town named after hi...
WIDOW MAKER Sheriff Des Rainey was a good lawman, just doing his job, returning from a ranch left in charred ruins after giving the murdered corpses left behind a decent burial. But someone got the drop on him as he was stepping into his own jai...
YOU MAY NOW KIDNAP THE BRIDE Beautiful, blushing bride-to-be Casey Summerville was all set to say, "I do " after "Till death do you part." She never expected her groom to die "before "the vows, gunned down in the streets of Arapaho by the bank-ro...
A SHOT IN THE DARK It's sort of an unwritten code of the West--if you shoot a woman who's trying to steal your horse, you promise to find her kidnapped daughter. United States Deputy Marshal Custis Long was all set for a relaxing vacation up ...
SOME SOILED DOVES ARE DIRTIER THAN OTHERS... When Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long’s boss, Billy Vail, sends him to the town of Salt Springs in New Mexico Territory to investigate a possibly crooked lawman, he needs a good cover. Whiskey salesman...
THE FORECAST CALLS FOR WAR CLOUDS Longarm’s old friend, War Cloud, the Apache scout, is taking a break from getting shot every day in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show to come to the aid of the U.S. government. War Cloud, along with his beautiful ...
ONE FOR MY BABY...AND ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD When Longarm's old friend, Helen Morrow, asks for his help, the lawman doesn't hesitate. Now a successful madam running several bordellos, Helen informs him that someone is trying to run her out of busi...
THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SIX-GUN Longarm the hero of a dime Western novel? Why, the very idea is preposterous Yet the lovely Delia Wilson, aka novelist Dakota Walker, wants to use the lawman's past--and current--exploits as fodder for her fic...
COME HELL OR HIGH WATER A feud over water rights has got neighboring towns on the brink of all-out war. After a territorial division split one community into two, the locals found themselves taking sides in a conflict that literally pit brother a...
3:10 FROM YUMA Crooked town marshal Jeb Beeson has laid down the law -- his law. If Longarm isn’t on the Monday train out of Yuma, his casket will be. But Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long isn’t about to be chased off by a bullying badge toter -...
ISN'T IT ROMANTIC? As thunder booms and lightning flashes and wolves nuzzle the bloody, bullet-ridden corpses of Longarm's fallen foes out in the wet, muddy streets of a Mexican ghost town, the lawman is warm and cozy inside--and happy to be aliv...
THROW LONGARM NAKED FROM THE TRAIN Like most folks, Longarm has always been fond of his extremities--you might even say he's attached to them. So after he's coldcocked following an ill-advised liaison with a gorgeous grifter on a train and tossed...
THE MALODOROUS SEVEN After her husband is killed in front of her, wealthy widow Frances Mayfield insists on hiring a bodyguard. And who better than the man who rescued her from the attackers--Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long? Of course, Longarm ha...
HELLCAT IN HANDCUFFS Hell hath no fury like Naomi Foster, the felonious female that Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has been charged with transporting from Wyoming Territory to Denver for trial. In theory, Longarm has help in the form of C. Burto...
WHAT A PAIR The Olsen sisters are as beautiful as they are deadly. Hilda and Pearl were twin mistresses to Senator Taft Baker of Sacramento, California, but now the polygamous politician has been shot to death in his bed--and the sisters are nowh...
His prisoner had help--but Longarm never saw who it was. The backshooter's bullet creased the nape of his neck, knocking him from his horse and rendering him unconscious. Eager to make his getaway, Alton Gray made a fatal error--he didn't take a mome...
IT'S GOING TO BE A BUMPY RIDE... They say actions speak louder than words. So when two masked men with sawed-off shotguns stop the South Park stagecoach, they don't need to announce their intentions. Since the silent thieves are helping themselve...
WHITE LIGHTNING One good lawman has already been murdered in pursuit of Missouri moonshiners who could care less if their rotgut leaves a person blind--or even dead. Now it's Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long's turn to search out their stills and m...
LONGARM'S FAIR LADY... After saving soiled dove Lucy Potter from two attackers, Longarm takes pity on the young woman. He buys her a new dress, gets her cleaned up, and takes her out for a fancy steak dinner. Lucy's got a good heart, and Longarm ...
MAKIN’ BACON After Bethlehem Bacon’s husband goes missing while out surveying on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long heads out to Wyoming Territory to lead the search. And when the beautiful Beth insists on accom...
IN THE LAWLESS WEST, ONE MAN STAMPS OUT CRIME Mild-mannered postal thief Brian Henry is not about to give Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long any trouble on the ride back to Denver for trial. After being double-crossed by a tantalizing temptress who t...