Casebook of Sheriff Pete Benson

Pete Benson was a big-city police detective. His job was intense, dangerous, and 24/7.

He loved it.

But he also had a loving wife and two young children he hardly saw.

So he made a choice.

Now Sheriff Pete Benson patrols Rhyolite County, Montana. His beat is bigger than some states, but it’s beautiful country with tall mountains and broad valleys—and more cows than people.

Rodgersburg, the county seat, has fewer than three thousand people. That’s where Benson and his family live, where he gets t...