Longarm 330: Longarm and the Apache War [Paperback]

Tabor Evans (Author)

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Publication Date: April 25, 2006 | Series: Longarm (Book 330)

To settle a war over water, Longarm will have to give both sides a greater concern than their precious liquid: whether or not they're the next to face down his smoking derringer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Jove (April 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0515141305
• ISBN-13: 978-0515141306
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,730,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars LONGARM ON THE JOB, May 22, 2009

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Joseph H. Race "Jose Mango" (SAIPAN, MP United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Longarm 330: Longarm and the Apache War (Paperback)

Just another great western by Tabor Evans with his main protagonist Marshal Custis Long, # 330 in the Longarm series. As always, I enjoyed the adventure, shoot-'em-up, and beautiful ladies. The novel starts off with Longarm rightfully blasting a wife-beater on the train to Flagstaff, and not having a funeral parlor close-by or funds for a burial and service, he throws the miscreant off onto the railroad track with the corpse probably becoming wolf-food within hours. Of course, he ends up making love to the damsel in distress - something to do with eye contact and the rhymatic motion of the rails.
It is more than a story of good vs. evil, available females, and water rights, and a passel of new characters, including Apaches. You have to read it yourself - it well worth the few bucks and your time. I liked it!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Is Longarm getting 50 years ahead of his time?, November 12, 2006

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J. Guild (Toronto,Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Longarm 330: Longarm and the Apache War (Paperback)

Any longtime reader of this series is going find this saga quite different. Longarm gets a very clear assignment from his boss but has a lot of trouble getting to the problem with all the diversions that keep cropping up along the way. It would be easy to ignore the injustices that confront him; but that's just not Longarm's way.
Several times Longarm has to reach into his own lean pockets to help someone in need .It almost seems that he is playing the role of government in assistance 50 years before FDR came up with the New Deal.Too bad they didn't staff the departments with people like Longarm;a lot more would have been done,a lot faster ,and for a heck of a lot less money.
In this saga,we meet some great characters.Gassy,but keep your distance,Geronimo,John Stanton,Old West artist,writer and mayor( I tried,but to no avail to find out if he was a real person). Anyone out there know?
We get a bit of everything in this one.Rescue of a wonderful wife from a husband who doesn't deserve her,a train ride which turns out to be both enjoyable as well as a lesson on how not to depart from it.A short course in what a well executed scalping should look like,what it feels like to hear someone digging your grave,and even Longarm doing some gravedigging himself.
We see how Longarm goes out of his way to help others and in return gets repaid well by those he helped.
If you've ever wondered what "Waterboarding"is like;Longarm shows his type,and there was no ACLU waiting to aid the guilty.
A great read,just too bad it ended so soon.
Oh yeah! The Apache War in the title?..You'll just have to read the book to find out about that.

"He damn well better consent to see me", Longarm thought.

"Sometimes it is better to sleep with the enemy to know his strenghts
and weaknesses." Donita

"How bad are you hit this time?,Longarm asked.
"Not bad Marshal.Not so bad that I won't live to spit on both of their
graves!",Gassy said.

4.0 out of 5 stars WHAT KIND OF AN APACHE WAR IS THIS?, October 17, 2011

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Kay's Husband (Virginia, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Longarm 330: Longarm and the Apache War (Paperback)

Denver, Colorado
Sedona, Arizona Territory
Canyon City, Arizona Territory
Fort Carlos, San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation

Written several years ago, 2006, this novel with a western setting is still a very good read. The writing is good and the characters are better. Especially 'Gassy' (J. D. Gaston) an old timer, muleskinner and miner, whose attacks of a flatulent system can at the least make a mule's ears quiver and at the worst drive people away from him. Or as he says when Long asks his name, "...call me gassy because I fart so much."

This new Apache war is not your average affair, no, past Apache wars ended in Arizona Territory some years back. This newer one is in the vicinity of Canyon City and its adjacent reservation will be a war over who owns water rights. That's correct, the Apaches need the water to flow through the reservation as it always has, which unscrupulous town leaders are now diverting, away from the Apache farms of corn, cotton, and hay. The Apaches have settled down and settled in to lead peaceful lives and with the water flowing through the reservation (San Carlos Indian Reservation) are making a success of it. Some whites, however, see their profits increase if another war can be brought about.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long out of Denver will attempt to avoid any blood shed other than that he creates. Longarm as he is known and loved, will have some able assistance from good ole 'gassy' and a young, Senorita named Donita Rameriz. This is a very complex and dangerous situation, but as Longarm asks: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. This will be Deputy Marshal Long'a approach to not only defeating the town leaders but also the U.S. Army.