It was a hot summer in the sprawling Texas town of El Paso in 1895, and the wildest parts of the wild west were now tamed by the Texas Rangers. The bad men were either dead or in jail, and that was how the embittered John Wesley Hardin found it when he returned from a ten year stretch in Huntsville County Prison. He was a veteran of a hundred gunfights, with forty notches on his guns, but he'd been brutally treated in prison, and when he returned, he looked twenty years older than his forty two years...

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