Cat-Fighting Stories

A gritty Western book cover in cinematic style: two rugged gunslingers stand in the dusty main street of a desolate frontier town under a blazing sun. One is tall, wearing a weathered duster coat, hand resting on a Colt revolver; the other shorter but broad-shouldered, gripping a rifle. In the background, a faded wooden saloon with swinging doors, a sheriff’s office, and a red-lit brothel sign reading “Red Hot Lantern.” A steam train is faintly visible in the distance, symbolizing escape.

Some men run from violence. Others wear it like a second skin. Clayton “Bull” Best never went looking for blood. But it always seemed to find him—splattered across dusty barroom floors, burning in gunpowder air, or smeared on the knuckles of desperate men.