Book excerpt: Longarm would rather leave this greenhorn out to pasture… Custis Long is none too happy at work. No more than a kid, Buck T. Skane has waltzed into town like he owns the place. And his godfather, Billy Vail, hands the little snot a job on the spot—a job meant for Longarm… Some city slickers with clean hands and dirty intentions are amassing an illegal mine monopoly—and Longarm’s posse plans to trap them, if Buck doesn’t stop squandering Uncle Sam’s dough. Calling himself Canada Cooper, Longarm has to keep fending off local gals eager to learn the mating rituals of the North. Meanwhile, the slickers are onto the trap—and might just beat Longarm at his own game…