I like the tumbleweed part. I think that sentence is lacking some sort of punctuation though. semi-colon or comma?

My favorite line is: Legit, that is.

No additional punctuation is required.

I think a comma would make the sentence clearer: “People ended up in Dos Lobos when they couldn’t get nowhere else, like tumbleweeds against a fence.”

Is the comma really a deal breaker? The guy correctly spelled sarsaparilla!

Ha no, I don’t dock a pencil for a missing comma.

I love that metaphor! That is one of the best cowboy metaphors I’ve seen! No lie! The “Ax” Axton seemed a little repetetive to me. Unless Ax is his nickname. I never understood why writers did that.