Walt Longmire · Book 25

Spirit of Steamboat

by Craig Johnson

Published
1 January 2013
Pages
146
ISBN-13
9780670015788
Type
novella

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Cover of Spirit of Steamboat

About this book

Spirit of Steamboat, published in 2013 at 146 pages, is one of the optional Walt Longmire novellas, sitting between Christmas in Absaroka County and The Highwayman. Like the other novellas, it isn't required to follow the main novel-to-novel plot, but it's set in the same wintry Absaroka County that defines the series.

Its place in Walt Longmire

Spirit of Steamboat is book 25 in the Walt Longmire series. It follows Christmas in Absaroka County. It is followed by The Highwayman. See the full Walt Longmire reading order.

Walt Longmire is the longtime sheriff of fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming — a wry, weathered widower closer to retirement than he'd like to admit, working a sprawling, sparsely populated jurisdiction that borders the Cheyenne reservation. Craig Johnson builds each novel around a specific case (a murder, a missing person, a decades-old grudge resurfacing) but the real draw is Walt himself: a lawman who reads Steinbeck and quotes literature between fistfights, navigates Wyoming's brutal winters and moral gray…

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