Longarm And The Night Raiders

By Tabor Evans

Subjects: Longarm (Fictitious character), Fiction, Gold mines and mining, Longarm (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, westerns, Avarice

Description: THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT As a personal favor, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long arrives in Good Hope, Arizona, to help his boss's old friend, a former Texas Ranger named Don Carter. But Carter is a proud, obstinate son of a gun, not likely to accept help - though he's happy to give it, especially to the down-and-out. So Longarm poses as a drifter named Custis Short, who's willing to work for food, and Carter takes him in. Longarm quickly learns that the retired Ranger has a gold claim. But the local big shot Kyle Burgen who already owns half the county, wants Carter s mine as well. When Burgen's raiders come in the night with guns and torches, Longarm's waiting to cut them down to size....