December 4, 2018

December 10 - Spirit of Steamboat

Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson

Absaroka County
Sheriff Walt Longmire - Martha - Cady - Lola - Dog
Undersheriff Victoria Moretti - Lena
Ruby

Durant Home for Assisted Living
Lucian Connally, former sheriff
Mrs. Hayden

Red Pony Bar
Henry Standing Bear

December, 24, 1988
Mitchell B-25 medium bomber - Steamboat
Lucian Connally
Doc Isaac Bloomfield
Rick Koehmstedt
Julie Luehrman - Toots
Mrs. Oda
Amaterasu

Durant
Euskadi Bar
Tom Koltiska
Gerald Holman
John Buell
Jerry Aranzadi
Ferg
Amaterasu

1936 Wyoming license plate

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December 1, 2018

December 10 - Spirit of Steamboat

Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson

A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for A&E’s hit show Longmire

“It’s a question of what you have to do, what you have to live with if you don’t.”

Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in his office on December 24th when he’s interrupted by the ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few questions about Walt’s predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt doesn’t recognize the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to have something she must return to Connally. With his daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in Philadelphia for the holidays, Walt is at loose ends, and despite the woman’s reticence to reveal her identity, he agrees to help her.

At the Durant Home for Assisted Living Lucian Connally is several tumblers into his Pappy Van Winkle’s and swears he’s never clapped eyes on the woman before. Disappointed, she whispers “Steamboat” and begins a story that takes them all back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three people died in a terrible crash and a young girl had the slimmest chance of survival . . . back to a record– breaking blizzard, to Walt’s first year as sheriff, with a young daughter at home and a wife praying for his safety . . . back to a whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready to fly a decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life.