Craig Johnson had a blast bringing Walt Longmire back to the past

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Craig Johnson says he keeps his storytelling fresh by occasionally taking his famous literary sheriff, Walt Longmire, on adventures outside of his usual setting of contemporary Wyoming.

Readers got their first glimpse of a younger Walt in 2008's Another Man's Mocassins, which flashed back to when he was a U.S. Marine in the Vietnam War.

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