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A Spur Award?winning Author -- At seventeen, Odell Spurling is taller than most men and all too ready to be treated like one. Then a Comanche raid leaves him without home or family. The girl he loves, Red Wing Wilson, was a Comanche stolen as a child and raised by Texans. Promising to return to her, Odell sets off for revenge. But when the President of Texas arranges to return Red Wing to the Comanche in a gesture of goodwill, Odell finds himself on a mission greater than mere revenge.
About the Author
BioAward-winning author, Brett Cogburn, was reared in Texas and the mountains of Southeastern Oklahoma. He had the fortune for many years to make his living from the back of a horse, where cowboys still step on frisky broncs on cold mornings, and drag calves to the branding fire on the end of a rope from their saddlehorn. Growing up around ranches, livestock auctions, oilfield rig sites, and backwoods hunting camps filled his 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 shoot straight. Cowboys are just as wild as they ever were, and I've been fortunate enough to know more than a few."Whether setting his novels in the Old West or the Twenty-First Century, Brett focuses on characters, the real and the eccentric. His list of novels include Panhandle, The Texans, and Forty Loads, Destiny, Texas, Two-Dollar Pistol, and Widowmaker Jones, with more on the way. He holds a BA in English with a minor in history, and currently makes his home with his family on a little ranch in Oklahoma.
