Longarm 258: Longarm and the Pistolero Princess

by Tabor Evans

Book Overview

U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is dispatched to go behind the scenes of Colonel Jasper Pettigrew's Wild West Show--to find out if the show's Indian sharpshooter is being forced to perform against her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515128082
• ISBN13: 9780515128086
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

"Billy,don't blame it on me!" "I was pretty much an innocent bystander in this one."-- Longarm

This May 2000 episode finds Longarm with a rather mundane task of delivering a prisoner to Kansas City,Missouri,sometime between 1877 and 1881, during the term of President Rutherford Hayes.Before long ,we find our hero following a Wild West Show to Hays ,Kansas in an attempt to find an Indian girl, who he thinks was kidnapped and forced to perform as a Indian sharpshooter against her will. The story takes lots of twists and turns.We get a good insight into the workings of the Wild West Shows,like those started by Colonel William F. Cody,during this period.There is lots of action,shootouts,snipings and ambushes,arena show fires,shootouts aboard trains,and a lot of intrigue (even too much for this fan);but an enjoyable read nonetheless. There are some real interesting Old West characters who keep the readers interest,but the colorful language and expressions ,we like in these novels,is rather weak.I like to find characters in the plot represented in the cover artwork. This cover is very good,as are many of them in the earlier epsiodes.There is no doubt as to who the gal with the rifle is;and what a great picture of Longarm with his rifle at the ready.The artwork on this cover, by far surpasses what we get these days. This saga is even a bit much for Longarm's boss,Marshal Billy Vail,;who sums it up with; "Innocent bystander!" Vail snorted."Go on,Curtis, get out of here.Take a few days off."