Longarm and the Bayou Treasure

This May 2007 Episode of Longarm takes us to a very different enviroment of The Old West;or should we say, The Old South? Longarm's assignment is to find out what happened to the Senator's son who disappears while looking for Jean Lafitte's treasure. After being an unusually uneventful couple of day trip by Union Pacific from Denver to Kansas City and a transfer to the Atchison,Topeka & Santa Fe to get to Houston;he catches a Southern Pacific train that chugged across the marshy lowlands of southern Louisiana towards New Orleans;finally ending up in a little town of Saint Angelique,west of Baton Rouge. It's a long time since we'we seen Longarm travel that far and long with out some exciting action along the way.Well,I guess there's a first for everything. However,the action soon heats up and we get a great saga of action and everything else immaginable in a location very foreign to our hero. Swamps,trees dripping with Spanish moss,Aligators,and snakes ("Red and Black ,you're safe Jack";Red and Yellow,kill a fellow" ..These were red and yellow,Eastern Corals,and Longarm hated snakes). All this coupled with weird and almost fanticiful characters and a location called Coffin Hill provide the scene for some great excitement. Though not a yarn involving Gunslingers,Saloons,Spoiled Doves,shootouts in Canyons;the swamps and local characters that Longarm confronts,presents him with such challenges,that any Lawman with lesser skills,probably would have met his demise. But not Curtis Long ,the man originally from West-By -God, Virginia ;and of late, Denver and the Deserts and Mountains;the Swamps and Bayous of Louisiana,just present him with a few new challanges to deal with in his pursuit of justice. "I aint allowed to keep things like this.I don't get paid forty-a-month- and-found,like I did back in my cowboy days." Longarm thought about the people he had helped to free from bondage and torture at the hands of an evil lunatic,and about the justice he had brought to the swampland. " I get paid plenty,"he said with a smile." It's a shame the cover didn't include a picture of the "Limping man";a beguiling character,if there ever was one.