Wanted
Four men rode into the ramshackle town of Defiance, the dust from the trail rising beneath their horses’ hooves, stirred up into low clouds that hung suspended in their wake. The hot Texas sun beat down on the black cowboy hats that shielded the men’s eyes and offered little relief from the heat. Few people strolled along the wooden boardwalks that lined the leaning buildings, and those that did turned from the hard gaze of Crazy Kit Connelly, leader of the ragtag gang of cattle thieves known in Kennett County as the Rustlers.
Crazy Kit sat astride a bucking midnight steed that he barely held in check as his friends fanned out behind him. His eyes glinted like steel struck with flint, his gaze roaming the streets as if daring anyone to a fight. He was a hard, mean man, whose reput
