Widowmaker Jones

A Spur Award winning Author

With a bag full of gold dust, Newt Widowmaker Jones is set for life. Then he makes his first mistake: trusting a cheerful stranger. By dawn the stranger Javier Cortina, the son of the famous Texas border bandit, Juan Red Cortina is gone. So is the gold. So are Newt's horse and even his fearsome Colt .44. It's enough to make a man want vengeance. And vengeance will be Newt's.

Some folks are just born to tell tall tales. Brett Cogburn was reared in Texas and the mountains of Southeastern Oklahoma. He was fortunate enough for many years to make his living from the back of a horse, where on cold mornings cowboys still straddled frisky broncs and dragged calves to the branding fire on the end of a rope from their saddlehorns. Growing up around ranches, livestock auctions, and backwoods hunting camps filled Brett’s head with stories, and he never forgot a one. In his own words: ＂My grandfather taught me to ride a bucking horse, my mother gave me a love of reading, and my father taught me how to hunt my own meat and shoot straight. Cowboys are just as wild as they ever were, and I’ve been damn lucky to have known more than a few.＂ The West is still teaching him how to write. Brett Cogburn lives in Oklahoma with his family.