Longarm #398: Longarm and the Range War

Too many rifles, too little time€¦

Deputy United States Marshal Custis Long has been dispatched to help out the local law in McConnell County, Wyoming Territory, where a rather unusual range war is about to erupt between Basque sheepmen and Mexican goatherds. The winners will get the grass€"and the losers will be buried beneath it.
 
Longarm€s been called many things in his time, but never a €œdiplomat.€ The lawman quickly learns it€s hard to talk sense into folks when you don€t speak their language. But when Longarm finds out who€s been arming the herders with rifles, he€s not sheepish about letting his six-gun do his talking for him€¦