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

“I decided to do that again,” he added. “In First Frost, I took him back to 1964, before they even got to Vietnam, which was kind of interesting, with this big road trip on Route 66.”

Tooth and Claw is set after the war and finds Henry visiting Walt, who is working security for an oil company in Alaska.

After a series of unfortunate events, the men become trapped on an old ghostship with a disfigured polar bear and have to fight for their survival and make it back home.

Johnson intended the novella to be published in 2025, but when he handed it in early, Viking Penguin wanted to release it in spring 2024.

“I really hadn’t intended on bookending Walt’s Vietnam experiences, both before and after, but when they decided to go ahead and publish it, I was like, ‘OK, well, here we go!'”

The next two Longmire books will feature Walt and Henry home in Wyoming and at their present …