Summary

In Chapter 1, the Absaroka County sheriff's office receives a call from Bob Barnes saying that he had found a dead body on the Bureau of Land Management land. Bob Barnes and his son, Billy, are not the most reliable witnesses since they are not sober a lot, so Sheriff Walter Longmire does not look forward to driving the long distance thinking all he will find is a dead sheep. Instead he takes his deputy, Victoria Moretti, off of traffic duty and sends her instead. As Longmire drives to find Vic and give her the new assignment, he remembers when he first met her. She was a career police officer who came from a family of police officers in Philadelphia. Her husband, however, was an field engineer for Consolidated Coal and was transferred to Wyoming. Two weeks after she arrived Vic came into the...