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There’s a powerful, new voice coming from out of the American West and his name is Craig Johnson In his debut novel Johnson brings to life the vast Wyoming landscape, its people, and a wonderful new character in Sheriff Walt Longmire.

The citizens of the Cowboy State boast a long and bloody history of dispensing rough justice but the last few decades have bred peace between the white and Native American communities. So when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Sheriff Walt Longmire and the general population of Absaroka County are inclined to think it’s a hunting accident. But two years earlier Cody was one four high school boys convicted of brutally raping Melissa Little Bird, a young Cheyenne girl with fetal alcohol syndrome. The boys were guilty but let off with suspended sentences. Was this a revenge killing? Sheriff Longmire intends to find out.

After twenty-four years as sheriff, Walt, along with Deputy Victoria Moretti and lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, is embroiled in the most volatile and challenging case of his career. He might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and a Sharps .45-70 buffalo rifle.

In the first book of this new series, Wyoming resident Craig Johnson fills the vast emptiness of the high plains with a cast both tragic and humorous and brings a unique landscape and its people to life with mesmerizing authenticity..
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In ABSAROKA a young man desperate to save his ranch, turns to wild horses as a solution, but, instead, joins the Crow Indian nation to save the wild herd from a government that wants to get rid of them. This book also addresses contemporary issues such as romance, war, western living, and human tenacity in the midst of page-turning adventure where young Matt Reed learns a lot about his own courage, integrity, and perseverance.

Matt Reed returns from Vietnam to find his Wyoming ranch stripped of livestock, his mother gone; a victim of cancer, and his father a mere shadow of his former self. Will Matt allow an old rival to ravage the ranch with strip mining? Jill, a lovely neighbor; Joe, a Crow Indian friend; and a wild horse herd each play a part in the solution—and Matt's healing.

Bochmann is a master at vivid characterizations, the portrayal of natural beauty, human emotion, and action in this heartfelt drama of love, war, and the tenacity of the human spirit..
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