49 Fun Facts About Longmire

In which state is Longmire set?

Wyoming. The fictional sheriff became a real tourist draw: by 2014 several thousand fans were descending on the town that inspired Durant for Longmire Days, with the cast signing autographs.

Who plays Walt Longmire?

Robert Taylor. Before he wore the white hat he was one of the men in black: his best-known role was Agent Jones, hunting Neo alongside Agent Smith in The Matrix.

What nationality is the actor who plays Sheriff Walt Longmire?

Australian. He ran away to sea at 21, worked on oil rigs, and only auditioned for drama school at 24 after spotting a newspaper advertisement.

What is the name of the fictional county where Walt Longmire is sheriff?

Absaroka. The name was once proposed for a real state: in the 1930s disgruntled ranchers in the region pushed to break away as Absaroka, and the movement's leader proclaimed himself governor.

Who wrote the Walt Longmire Mysteries novels the show is based on?

Craig Johnson. He found the area by accident while delivering horses as a young man, and came back years later to build his own log ranch house there.

Who plays Henry Standing Bear, Walt Longmire's best friend?

Lou Diamond Phillips. His barkeeper becomes the show's surprise vigilante in season four, answering the notes people leave at a rock outcrop for the reservation's hired avenger.

In Longmire, to which tribe does Henry Standing Bear belong?

Cheyenne. The reservation has its own police and the sheriff has no jurisdiction there, so Henry is often Walt's only way in.

What is the name of Henry Standing Bear's bar in Longmire?

The Red Pony. Henry's standing welcome invites people to the Red Pony 'and continual soiree', a phrase that became the title of a season-five episode.

What verbal quirk marks Henry Standing Bear's speech in Longmire?

He never uses contractions. One 2012 newspaper critic called it an odd decision, complaining that the stiff speech was only a few steps away from the Lone Ranger's Tonto.

Who plays deputy Vic Moretti in Longmire?

Katee Sackhoff. Her Vic spent five years working big-city homicide, and the pilot finds her six months into the new job, called out on her day off over a dead sheep.

In which city was Longmire's Vic Moretti a homicide detective before moving west?

Philadelphia. Before leaving she had implicated a fellow officer in a corruption scandal; he killed himself, and his former partner tracks her down in season two.

Which brand of beer does Sheriff Walt Longmire insist he has always drunk?

Rainier. In the pilot it is his alibi against a drunk-driving charge: the empties in his truck are another brand, picked up because he hates the sight of litter.

Who plays Cady, Walt Longmire's daughter?

Cassidy Freeman. Her Cady closes the series by running for her father's job, with a 'Longmire for Sheriff' sign back on the road into the county.

What is deputy Archie Ferguson's nickname in Longmire?

The Ferg. He tries to hand back his badge, sure he was only hired as a favour to his father; Walt says there was a second reason he is still waiting to find out.

What did Walt Longmire tell his daughter Cady her mother had died of?

Cancer. She did have it, but a Denver detective reveals in the first-season finale that she was actually murdered, and Cady is furious that her father hid it.

Which actor plays Fales, the Denver detective who dogs Walt and Henry through Longmire's first three seasons?

Charles S. Dutton. His detective arrives from Colorado convinced that the sheriff, or failing him his best friend, took the law into his own hands.

Who was Miller Beck in Longmire's backstory?

The murderer of Walt's wife. Henry sent a hired avenger to Denver to kill him, but the man swears he only handed out a beating, so someone else finished the job.

In Longmire, what does the mercenary Hector take from Miller Beck as trophies?

His teeth. A missing tooth is Hector's calling card, and when Beck's turn up at Henry's bar, Henry is arrested for a murder he did not commit.

Which ex-cop from Vic Moretti's past stalks her in Longmire's second season?

Ed Gorski. He claims he has come to make amends, but he blames Vic for his old partner's suicide, and he soon ends up badly beaten himself.

Who is David Ridges in Longmire?

The man believed to have shot Branch. Nobody credits the claim at first, because the man's suicide was caught on video and his body was supposedly burned on a pyre.

Who plays Malachi Strand, the former tribal police chief in Longmire?

Graham Greene. His Malachi goes from tribal police chief to prison inmate to casino security boss, then leaves Henry tied down under the sun to die.

Who plays casino developer Jacob Nighthorse in Longmire?

A Martinez. His Nighthorse is Walt's favourite suspect for years, yet in the end he testifies to save Walt's land and hands his casino over to Henry.

Who plays wealthy developer Barlow Connally in Longmire?

Gerald McRaney. Cornered by his own son over the killing of Walt's wife, his Barlow says it is not too late to have another son, and a single gunshot ends the season.

Why did Barlow Connally arrange the murder of Walt Longmire's wife?

To help Branch become sheriff. He had already funnelled campaign money to his son through Jacob Nighthorse, and made a no-questions payment the week she died.

Which clue convinces Walt Longmire that deputy Branch Connally's apparent suicide was murder?

Soil in the shotgun shell. A dead man cannot eject a spent shell and reload it, and pollen in the dirt came from plants that do not grow by the river where he lay.

Who plays Lucian Connally, Walt Longmire's predecessor as sheriff?

Peter Weller. RoboCop's star also directed episodes, including the one that introduces Lucian, arrested for firing off a gun in his retirement home.

Who plays Mathias, the tribal police chief in Longmire?

Zahn McClarnon. His Mathias works out that Henry is the reservation's new vigilante and, rather than arrest him, uses the evidence to strike a deal.

Who plays anti-government zealot Chance Gilbert in Longmire?

Peter Stormare. His cult leader appears only rarely, yet he kidnaps Vic and her husband in season three and shoots her in the final season.

Who is Dr. Donna Monaghan, Walt Longmire's love interest from season four?

A therapist treating veterans. Walt first questions her at the VA hospital over a drug theft, and by the season's end she is kidnapped from his home in a raid that leaves him wounded.

Which organised crime group runs heroin into Walt Longmire's county in season five?

The Irish mob. Walt takes a few personal days, flies to Boston and tells its boss to stay out of his county or he will give the FBI his name.

What did Tucker Baggett want to build on Walt Longmire's land?

A golf course. The wrongful-death suit against Walt was a land grab in disguise, meant to bankrupt him so that a dead developer's company could take the property.

In Longmire's season five finale, Henry Standing Bear is kidnapped and staked out to die on which reservation?

Crow. A Crow medicine woman shoots his captors but leaves him tied up, saying she will leave it to the spirits, and Walt has to pay her to lead him there.

What is the profession of Cady, Walt Longmire's daughter?

Lawyer. She ends up running a legal-aid office on the reservation, paid for by Jacob Nighthorse, the man her father suspects of almost everything.

What was the name of Walt Longmire's late wife?

Martha. A year after her death Walt still cannot bring himself to scatter her ashes, and in the pilot his daughter begs him to let them go.

On which network did Longmire premiere in June 2012?

A&E. Longmire became the network's highest-rated original drama, and A&E cancelled it anyway after three seasons.

Which streaming service rescued Longmire after its cancellation?

Netflix. Loyal fans protested the cancellation loudly, and three months later Netflix ordered a fourth season; it went on to make three.

Which classic SUV does Sheriff Walt Longmire drive as his patrol vehicle?

Ford Bronco. Fans know it so well that a replica sheriff's Bronco turns up at the Longmire Days festival, with the novels' author at the wheel.

In which state was Longmire actually filmed?

New Mexico. Walt's cabin stands in the Valles Caldera preserve, where three wildfires in three weeks came close enough in 2013 to disrupt the shoot.

Which real town is the model for Durant, the fictional county seat in Longmire?

Buffalo. The novels' author lives nearby and based Durant on its people and places, and when the cast came for Longmire Days in 2014 the town played its fictional twin.

Which firefighting crew did Longmire's season-two finale thank for protecting Walt's house?

Granite Mountain Hotshots. Weeks after they helped hold wildfires back from the set, 19 of the crew's 20 members died fighting Arizona's Yarnell Hill Fire.

How is former sheriff Lucian Connally related to deputy Branch Connally in Longmire?

His uncle. Lucian wants nothing to do with his well-to-do brother Barlow, Branch's father, and lives by choice in a retirement home.

What puts Cady Longmire in hospital on election day in Longmire's second season?

A hit-and-run driver. She is struck while ferrying voters to the polls, and the hunt for the culprit leads Branch into an ambush on the reservation.

What does Sheriff Walt Longmire stubbornly refuse to carry?

A cell phone. When a ringtone cuts into a solemn ceremony he deadpans that this is why he has none, and for years he borrows his deputies' phones instead.

With Henry in jail in Longmire's third season, what does Walt agree to judge in his place?

A beauty pageant. Walt is at the judges' table when Vic picks her way past the dancing contestants to tell him a man has been found stabbed in a barn.

Which novel introduced Sheriff Walt Longmire?

The Cold Dish. Its author wrote two chapters, left them in a desk drawer for about a decade and built his log house by hand before going back to finish the book.

Who plays ambitious deputy Branch Connally in Longmire?

Bailey Chase. His Branch runs against his own boss for sheriff in the first season while secretly dating the boss's daughter.

In Longmire's final episode, what does Walt say he will go looking for once he retires?

Buried treasure. Before he died, Lucian told him he had worked out where a man named Anson Hamilton hid his fortune, and Walt, about to be unemployed, says he will need the income.

In a first-season Longmire episode, missing boys say they were taken by which legendary warrior?

A dog soldier. The children describe a warrior who can change from man to dog, but Walt is sure the kidnapper is flesh and blood, and the boys all turn up at Henry's bar.

In Longmire's fourth season, the caretaker of what kind of wartime site is found dead?

A former Japanese internment camp. He hoped to make it a museum; the woman responsible says there is no dignity in remembering a place that imprisoned innocents and shamed her family.