50 Fun Facts About Longmire

In which state is Longmire set?

The series was actually filmed in New Mexico, a fact the season-one DVD documentary covers.

Who plays Walt Longmire?

Taylor is Australian; a New York Times critic called him a modern-day Gary Cooper.

What nationality is the actor who plays Walt?

Robert Taylor was the first cast member announced, in February 2011.

What is the name of the fictional county Walt polices?

Its county seat, Durant, is modelled on Buffalo, Wyoming.

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

Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 25.

Who plays Walt's best friend Henry Standing Bear?

Henry owns the Red Pony bar and never speaks using contractions.

To which tribe does Henry Standing Bear belong?

The reservation has its own tribal police, led by Chief Mathias.

What is the name of Henry's bar and restaurant?

Malachi later uses its ledger to syphon illegal profits.

What verbal quirk defines Henry Standing Bear's speech?

His name is said to mean a bear who protects those whom he loves.

Who plays deputy Vic Moretti?

Sackhoff was best known as Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica.

In which city was Vic Moretti a homicide detective before heading west?

She moved with her husband Sean after an incident with her superior officer.

Which deputy runs against Walt in the season-one election?

He is also secretly dating Walt's daughter Cady.

Who plays Walt's daughter Cady?

Cady is a lawyer who ends up running for sheriff herself in the finale.

What is deputy Archie Ferguson's nickname?

Walt partly hired him as a favour to his father.

What did Walt tell Cady her mother died of?

Detective Fales from Denver reveals she was actually murdered.

Which Denver detective investigates the death of the man who killed Walt's wife?

Charles S. Dutton plays him across the first three seasons.

Who was Miller Beck, in the show's backstory?

Henry hired Hector to kill him, but Hector only beat him and took his teeth.

What trophies did the mercenary Hector take from Miller Beck?

Fales finds them at Henry's bar and arrests him.

Who stalks Vic in season two?

The retired Philadelphia cop blames her for his partner's suicide.

Who is David Ridges?

He was believed to have died by suicide and been cremated.

Who plays the former tribal police chief Malachi Strand?

Greene won a Red Nation Film Award of Excellence for the role.

Who plays the businessman and developer Jacob Nighthorse?

He also won a Red Nation Film Award for the part.

Who plays Branch's father Barlow Connally?

Barlow confesses to killing his own son and dies by suicide-by-cop.

Why did Barlow pay Nighthorse to have Walt's wife killed?

Season three ends on the sound of a gunshot.

What clue convinces Walt that Branch's death was not suicide?

It implied the shell was ejected after firing and put back in the gun.

Who plays Lucian Connally, Walt's predecessor and mentor?

RoboCop himself; Lucian's death in season six pushes Walt toward retirement.

Who plays Chief Mathias of the tribal police?

McClarnon later starred in Dark Winds, itself a Tony Hillerman adaptation.

Who plays the anti-government zealot Chance Gilbert?

He appears in only six episodes but becomes a major villain.

Who is Walt's love interest Dr. Donna Monaghan, introduced in season four?

Ally Walker plays her; she is kidnapped after a home invasion that wounds Walt.

Which organised crime group runs a heroin operation in Walt's county in season five?

Walt travels to Boston to confront their boss Shane Muldoon.

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

The wrongful-death suit was designed to bankrupt Walt so Barlow's company could take the land.

At the end of season five, Henry is kidnapped and left staked out on which reservation?

A Crow medicine woman, Marilyn Yarlott, helps Walt free him.

Who does Walt convince to run for his job when he retires in the finale?

He rides off to look for the buried treasure Lucian claimed to have found.

Who takes over Jacob Nighthorse's casino at the end of the series?

Walt and Vic finally begin a relationship in the same finale.

On which network did Longmire premiere in June 2012?

It debuted with 4.1 million viewers, the network's biggest original-series premiere.

Which streaming service rescued Longmire after its cancellation?

Netflix picked it up from season four and ran it to a sixth and final season.

After how many seasons did A&E cancel the show?

It was reportedly dropped because its older audience was unappealing to advertisers.

Roughly how many viewers per episode did Longmire draw on A&E at its peak?

That made it the most-watched original series in A&E history.

In which state was Longmire actually filmed?

Locations included Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Pecos and the Valles Caldera.

Which real town is the model for the fictional Durant?

It hosts the annual Longmire Days festival, drawing close to 12,000 fans.

Which firefighting crew protected the Walt's-house location during 2013 wildfires?

Nineteen of the crew's 20 members died weeks later in the Yarnell Hill Fire; the season-two finale honoured them.

At which studio were the show's interiors filmed?

It sits on the campus of Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

Which two writers developed Longmire and wrote the Edgar-nominated pilot?

Christopher Chulack directed the pilot.

Which institution gave Longmire a Bronze Wrangler award in 2013?

The prize honours fictional television drama.

Which critic compared the pilot to "an overfed elk"?

The San Francisco Chronicle reviewer also imagined it being cooked up at a Beverly Hills Chuck E. Cheese.

How many Longmire novels had the series' author written by early 2026?

By early 2026 Craig Johnson had also written two novellas and many short stories about the sheriff.

Where does the author of the Longmire novels live?

The town has a population of 25.

What claim in the novelist's early publicity did a 2009 newspaper profile call misleading?

He grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, and went to Marshall University.

How many Blu-ray discs were in the 2023 Complete Series set?

Warner Archive Collection handled the show's Blu-ray releases.

On which channel did Longmire first air in the UK?

It began there in March 2013, two years before the Netflix rescue.