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{{Short description|Fictional character}}
'''Walter Longmire''' is a fictional character created by American author [[Craig Johnson (author)|Craig Johnson]] (b. 1961).
Longmire is the [[title character]] of ''Walt Longmire Mysteries'', a series of [[western fiction|western]] [[mystery fiction|mystery novels]] first published in 2004. The novels were adapted into ''[[Longmire (TV series)|Longmire]]'', a [[crime drama]] television series which premiered in 2012 and was developed by John Coveny and Hunt Baldwin.
==Walt Longmire Mysteries==
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| spouse = Martha Longmire (deceased)
| gender = Male
| title = Sheriff of Absaroka County,
| children = <br />
| nationality= American
| extra-hdr = Police career
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| data31 = Absaroka County Sheriff's Department
| lbl32 = Years of service
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| lbl33 = Rank
| data33 = Sheriff
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Walt is a native of Durant, [[Wyoming]], the [[county seat]] of fictional Absaroka County, named after the real-life [[Crow people|Absaroka Native Americans]], the [[Absaroka Range]], and the 1930s effort to declare a [[Absaroka (proposed state)|U.S. state called Absaroka]] out of territory from three existing states.<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Craig |date=July 2014 |title=Welcome To Wyoming |url=https://www.cowboysindians.com/2014/07/welcome-to-wyoming/ |magazine=Cowboys and Indians Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
Upon his discharge from the Marines, Walt spent some time working at an oil rig in [[Anchorage, Alaska]], before returning home to Wyoming, where he was hired by Sheriff Lucian Connally as a deputy sheriff in 1972.<ref name="Western Star">{{cite book |last= Johnson|first= Craig|date= September 5, 2017|title= The Western Star|publisher= Penguin Books}}</ref> Walt was elected as the Absaroka County Sheriff after Lucian all but threw the race and decided to retire.<ref name="Spirit of Steamboat">{{cite book |last= Johnson|first= Craig|date= October 17, 2013|title= Spirit of Steamboat|publisher= Penguin Books}}</ref>
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In the first book, ''The Cold Dish'', Walt is mentioned as having been the sheriff of Absaroka County and plans to run for re-election again the following year. He investigates the murders of two white teenagers who had been found guilty, but not severely punished, for [[Sexual assault|raping]] a local Indian girl, Melissa Little Bird.
In ''Death Without Company'', Walt investigates the death of a [[Basques|Basque]] woman who was, for a few hours in the 1940s, married to Lucian before her family had the marriage annulled. During his tenure as sheriff "of the least populated county in the least populated state in the union", five murders have occurred in Absaroka County, with three of them taking place since 2004 (in ''The Cold Dish'' and ''Death Without Company'').<ref name="Death Without Company">{{cite book |last= Johnson|first= Craig|date= March 16, 2006|title= Death Without Company|publisher= Penguin Books}}</ref>
In ''Kindness Goes Unpunished'', Walt visits his daughter Cady in Philadelphia, where he joins forces with the [[Philadelphia Police Department]] to investigate an assault on Cady that has left her in a coma.<ref name="Kindness Goes Unpunished"/>
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In ''The Dark Horse'', Walt goes undercover as an insurance investigator from [[Billings, Montana]], in [[Campbell County, Wyoming]] (at the unofficial request of the Campbell County Sheriff), to determine if a woman truly murdered her husband, a man with a dubious past and a gift for making enemies, after he allegedly burned down their barn and killed their horses for the insurance money.<ref name="The Dark Horse">{{cite book |last= Johnson|first= Craig|date= May 25, 2010|title= The Dark Horse|publisher= Penguin Books}}</ref>
In ''Hell is Empty'', Walt
In ''As the Crow Flies'', Walt assists the newly appointed chief of the [[Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation]] Tribal Police, [[Iraq War]]
In ''A Serpent's Tooth'', Walt deals with a
In ''Spirit of Steamboat'', Walt flashes back to Christmas Eve 1988 (during his second month as sheriff) when he helps Lucian
In ''Any Other Name'', Walt investigates the suicide of a Campbell County Sheriff's Investigator at the request of Lucian and Sheriff Sandy Sandburg, which nearly causes him to miss the birth of his grandchild in Philadelphia.<ref name="Any Other Name"/>
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In ''Dry Bones'', Walt deals with the discovery of a ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' skeleton on Native American land within his county and the subsequent death of the property's owner, resulting in a joint investigation with the FBI under the scrutiny of the newly announced deputy [[United States District Court for the District of Wyoming|United States attorney for the district of Wyoming]]. In the middle of the investigation, Walt learns that his son-in-law, Officer Michael Moretti, was killed in the line of duty in Philadelphia; although he desperately wants to fly east and assist in the investigation, he remains stuck in Durant to complete his own case (however, he does allow Vic, Michael's sister, to take a leave of absence).<ref name="Dry Bones">{{cite book |last= Johnson|first= Craig|date= May 12, 2015|title= Dry Bones|publisher= Penguin Books}}</ref>
During his career,
As sheriff, Walt carries
===Relationships===
Walt is a widower; Martha, his wife, died of cancer (in the books; in the TV series she was murdered in Denver, Colorado, while suffering from cancer). With Martha, he had a daughter, Cady, who is now an attorney in Philadelphia. In ''As the Crow Flies'', Walt mentions that he dated Martha before he was drafted, and that their relationship resumed after he came home from the war. The two eloped and were married by a justice of the peace in [[Miles City, Montana]], when her father refused to pay for a big church wedding. In the same book, Cady marries Philadelphia Police Officer Michael Moretti, the brother of Walt's undersheriff, Vic Moretti, on the Rez; Michael and she had been seeing each other since ''Kindness Goes Unpunished'' and engaged since ''The Dark Horse''. In ''Any Other Name'', Cady gives birth to a daughter, Lola Longmire Moretti. In ''The Western Star'', it is revealed that Walt and Martha first got pregnant in 1972, but they lost the baby in a first-trimester miscarriage.<ref name="Western Star"/>
Walt's closest friend and confidant is Henry Standing Bear. They have been friends since they were 12 years old, and both
After Cady is assaulted in Philadelphia, Vic (who was assisting the police in the investigation) and Walt have sex. In the aftermath, Walt mentions that he has had sex with only six women in his life.<ref name="Kindness Goes Unpunished"/> The two continue their relationship after returning to Durant; in ''A Serpent's Tooth'', Walt learns from the doctor that Vic was pregnant, but lost the baby after being stabbed during the confrontation with Tomás Bidarte. As of ''Any Other Name'', neither Walt nor Vic knows that the other is aware of the pregnancy, but in ''Dry Bones'', Vic reveals that she knows Walt had been told.
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# ''Next to Last Stand'' - September 22, 2020
# ''Daughter of the Morning Star'' - September 21, 2021
# ''Hell and Back'' - September
# ''The Longmire Defense'' - September 5, 2023
# ''First Frost'' - May 28, 2024
==Longmire (TV series)==
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In their 20s, he and Henry worked at [[Prudhoe Bay Oil Field]] in [[Alaska]].<ref name="Four Arrows">{{Cite episode|title=Four Arrows|series=[[Longmire (TV series)|Longmire]]|airdate=September 10, 2015|season=4|number=4}}</ref>
Walt has been the Sheriff of Absaroka County since at least 2005; his immediate predecessor
In 2010, Walt arrested Malachi Strand ([[Graham Greene (actor)|Graham Greene]]), the Chief of the [[Cheyenne]] Reservation [[Indian tribal police|Tribal Police]], for extortion; he also has an adversarial relationship with the current CRTP Chief, Mathias ([[Zahn McClarnon]]), although the two have a bond of mutual respect.
===In the series===
Laconic and introspective with a strong sense of duty and justice, Walt is a throwback to the iconic lone hero of classical
As the series starts in 2012, Walt is slowly coming out of a deep grieving period where he delegated most of the day-to-day police duties to Deputies Branch Connally ([[Bailey Chase]]), Archie "The Ferg" Ferguson (Adam Bartley), and Victoria "Vic" Moretti ([[Katee Sackhoff]]). This is complicated by Branch running against Walt in the upcoming sheriff election.<ref name="Pilot">{{Cite episode|title=Pilot|series=[[Longmire (TV series)|Longmire]]|airdate=June 3, 2012|season=1|number=1}}</ref>
Walt is investigated by [[Denver Police Department|Denver PD]] Detective Fales ([[Charles S. Dutton]]) for the murder of Miller Beck, a meth-head suspected of murdering Walt's wife, Martha. It is revealed that Fales is pushing the case of Beck, a drug-using suspected mugger and killer, so hard because of Fales' own experience with a small-town sheriff, whose racism and abuse of authority left Fales with a deep distrust of those particular law enforcement officers.<ref name="Bad Medicine">{{Cite episode|title=Bad Medicine|series=[[Longmire (TV series)|Longmire]]|airdate=August 26, 2013|season=2|number=13}}</ref>
In 2015, after killing Barlow Connally ([[Gerald McRaney]]) on his own front porch, Walt spends six weeks on [[administrative leave]] while the death is investigated by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]; Walt is cleared of any criminal charges in the death in the end. Having learned that Barlow was responsible for Martha's murder, Walt appears to finally find a sense of peace during this time.<ref name="Four Arrows"/> A number of weeks later, Walt learns that he is being sued for wrongful death by Barlow's estate.<ref name="What Happens on the Rez{{nbsp}}...">{{Cite episode|title=What Happens on the Rez{{nbsp}}...|series=[[Longmire (TV series)|Longmire]]|airdate=September 10, 2015|season=4|number=10}}</ref> This is revealed to be a plot by prosecutor Tucker Baggett to take Walt's property and build a golf course; thanks to the surprise help of Walt's longtime nemesis Jacob Nighthorse, the case is dropped.
As sheriff, Walt carries
At the end of the series, Walt decides to retire as sheriff and encourages his daughter Cady to run for sheriff in his place. Instead, Walt begins a search for Lord Anson Hamilton's buried treasure which Lucian Connally claimed to have found before his death. In the series' final scene, Walt is shown to finally own a cell phone of his own as he commences his search.
====Kill count====
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# David Ridges – stabbed ("Counting Coup")<ref name="Counting Coup">{{Cite episode|title=Counting Coup|series=[[Longmire (TV series)|Longmire]]|airdate=July 28, 2014|season=3|number=9}}</ref>
# Barlow Connally – shot ("High Noon")<ref name="High Noon">{{Cite episode|title=High Noon|series=[[Longmire (TV series)|Longmire]]|airdate=September 10, 2015|season=4|number=3}}</ref>
# One of Malachi Strand's
# Brian O'Keane – shot ("Goodbye Is Always Implied")
# Malachi Strand – shot ("Goodbye Is Always Implied")
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In a significant departure from the books, on the show, Walt's wife Martha did not die from cancer. Although she was diagnosed with the disease, in the TV series she was murdered, and the associated details are slowly revealed over several seasons, significantly affecting Walt's relationships with his deputy Branch and the Connally family.
While the TV series portrays Vic as being interested in Walt, her feelings
In the books, Absaroka County sees five murders in 24 years. The TV series sees 27 confirmed murders in the two first seasons alone.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/the-body-count-is-longmires-absaroka-county-the-most-murder-plagued-place-on-tv/ |title=The Body Count: Is
===Longmire Days===
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