Next to Last Stand

Craig Johnson, George Guidall

eAudio - 2020

One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer's Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of more than a million copies a year, was destroyed in a fire at the Seventh Cavalry headquarters in Fort Bliss, Texas, in 1946. Or was it? When Charley Lee Stillwater dies of an apparent heart attack at the Veterans' Home of Wyoming, Walt Longmire is called in to try to make sense of a partial painting and a Florsheim shoebox containing one million dollars, both found in Stillwater's foot locker, sending the good sheriff on the trail of a dangerous art heist. Walt is fond of the veterans who sit outside the home and wave at passing cars, and he felt a particular kinship with Charley Lee, making him al...l the more eager to untangle the mystery of the deceased man's belongings. As he follows the money— encountering some nefarious characters along the way—Longmire strives to make sure that this investigation doesn't become his own next to last stand. Craig... more