A U.S. marshal sees plenty of both, but this time Custis Long's in for more than his share. He's hunting down a sheriff with a shady past when he gets sidetracked by a few pesky item--like a Wells Fargo stage full of gold. Like a trio of gunslicks headed by a pint-sized pistolero named Mary Lou. Like a pretty schoolmarm who's taken hostage in a holdup ...

When Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long stops a stagecoach robbery, he tracks the bandits to a town called Zamora. A haven for the lawless, it's ruled by one of the most powerful, brilliant, and beautiful women in the West--a woman whom Longarm will have to face up close and personal. Original.

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 but to trust her—before the Haskill Gang gives him a new memory...his last.

Determined to reclaim the town of Medicine Skull from the outlaws who brought it down when they killed her husband, Matilda Flanders, the widow of Medicine Skull's late sheriff, calls on Longarm for help. Original.

Twice the Western adventure—two original Longarms in one volume! LONGARM AND THE AVENGING ANGELS The Avenging Angels cult has stolen her away. A young Mormon beauty who’d spurned their leader’s offer of “divine”—and multiple—marriage. Now, she’s hidden somewhere in the Great Salt Lake Desert—a captive of love. And Longarm is supposed to find her, in a cruel-faced land of merciless sun. Or forever hold his peace… LONGARM AND THE WENDIGO Wendigo, the Evil One, has climbed down from the sky to stalk the Montana reservation, leaving a trail of broken bodies in the prairie sun. Or so the Indians say. Federal Marshal Long has other ideas—about outlaws, crooked land schemes, and a fiery mixed-blood beauty named Two-Women who, Longarm discovers, is more than enough for one man to handle…

Word has reached the U. S. Marshal's office that the murderous Coulter gang is about to hit a train hauling a shipment of gold dust. It's up to Longarm to stop this bloody gang, and he joins the outlaws under an alias to learn details of the holdup and warn the sheriff.

Kelly Sisson wasn't called Killer for nothing. Longarm had tussled with the outlaw a few years back, and once was plenty. But now Sisson's escaped from the Denver penitentiary ... and been recaptured way up in Washington Territory, in a town called Moses. And it's up to Longarm to bring him back -- for hanging.

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. Chasing the shooter off the train, Longarm finds himself caught in a torrential downpour. But his rain of bullets hits its mark. He kills the gunman…only to run into his accomplices in the storm. Lucky for Longarm, they think he is the gunman. Now he can get close to the man who ordered the hit on his prisoner—the Kansas badman Sand Lachlan, who’s proven as elusive as his namesake every time he slips through justice’s fingers… So now it’s up to Longarm to show Sand who’s made of true grit…

Will Longarm be the guest of honor at a necktie party? 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 murdering her husband. Turns out, the landlord’s family is rich, and his wily widow is determined to enjoy his inheritance—while an innocent man dangles from the gallows. Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is determined not to take this lying down—heck, that’s how he got into trouble in the first place! But with a sadistic sheriff and a hanging judge against him, his boots may be kicking air in a matter of days. He’s hoping that if he gives his lying landlady enough rope, she may hang herself…or else he’ll be paying for this month’s rent with his life.