"Big" Steve Long (died October 28, 1868) was an American law enforcement officer and outlaw, achieving notoriety in the Wyoming Territory during the late 1860s.
that Long served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, under a different name.
After the American Civil War, around 1866, he settled in Laramie, Wyoming, where he and his half-brothers, Ace and Con Moyer, established a saloon.
Long reportedly spent several years as an early version of a gunfighter before being elected in 1867 as Deputy Marshal of Laramie[2]:189.
Long and his brothers used their forceful personalities and his position as the Deputy Marshal to their own financial advantage.
Within months of his appointment as deputy marshal, they forced several local ranchers to sign over to them the deeds to their properties.
On October 18, 1868, Long attempted to rob a prospector named Rollie "Hard Luck" Harrison.
Boswell gathered several men in the town, and they entered the saloon owned by Long and his brothers on October 28.