Longarm has his hands full when he is forced to play bodyguard to the most zealous teetotaler in the West, Big Hatchet Belcher, who comes to Denver to chop open its beer barrels in the name of God and temperance.
Longarm must protect his friend from a town that wants her dead. He isn't about to let an innocent woman hang. Instead, he'll make sure the real killer reaches final judgment.
Ivan Kane, the Marshal of Bodie, Nevada, is pulling guns on anyone who eyes him wrong. Though he's always been quick on the trigger, these days he seems to be losing his mind as fast as his bullets. And what's worse, he's taking protection funds from local merchants. But Kane better start protecting himself, because Longarm's guns are loaded and ready to blow the marshal away.
When three train robbers turn up dead in a saloon, the finger points to none other than the Calgary Kid -- a sinister, hard-drinking cuss who can draw a gun quick as lightning...and shoot true as death. Longarm is on the case -- but before he can get to the truth, he's kidnapped by the outlaw's lady friends. They make sure his hands are tied while someone else busts the kid out of the stir...someone wearing a badge...someone calling himself U.S. Deputy Marshall Custis Long...
Young and fetching Zenobia Lowell was hired to teach the army kids at Fort Douglas their reading, writing and 'rithmetic. Instead she rounded up a gang of students and soldiers for a few "extracurricular" activities -- which included burning down the schoolhouse and robbing the fort's safe. And now that she's disappeared into Mormon country with her band of devotees, there's no telling who she'll corrupt next...