Brighton Publishing releases 'Winchester: One of One Thousand' by Robert D. Jones in eBook

Jan. 11, 2012 - PRLog -- Brighton Publishing LLC announced the release of author Robert D. Jones’s epic saga tracing the improbable journey of a rare 19th century rifle, through its many owners, to its modern day discovery. Winchester: One of One Thousand is now available in all eBook formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever eBooks are sold.

A construction worker unearths a skeleton underneath a giant boulder. Nearly destroyed, the only real clue it yields is a rifle, still intact, clutched in the desiccated bones of its hand.

The rifle is a Winchester Repeating Arms 1873, one of just 1,000 specially-made which sold for more than five-times the cost of an average rifle. Traveling back in time, to the New York shop where it is first sold, this Winchester rifle begins an incredible journey across America; first in the hands of a Belgian immigrant just hours in the New World.

Before being unearthed more than a century later, this rifle will have eight owners, and will traverse the early West in a remarkable story unlike anything readers will have before encountered. How and why this rifle ends up where it does is a story told with tremendous voice and range, as only Robert D. Jones could manage.

Like Zane Grey and the masters of Western fiction before him, Robert D. Jones has real finesse with words, with history, and with time that is difficult to equal. There is a reverence for the period evident in his writing which makes it all the more pleasurable to read his story, as if it were true and coming direct from a great-grandfather who might himself have carried the rifle in his youth.

Robert D. Jones’s great-great-grandparents crossed the Plains in a covered wagon on the Immigrant Trail. Coming from pioneer stock, Jones was born in Roosevelt, Utah, a town in dispute as Indian Territory. A student of the Nineteenth Century West, Robert enjoys collecting and using tools and paraphernalia of the period. An avid outdoorsman, horseman, and weapons expert, he is as comfortable living off the land as he is at home. Winchester: One of One Thousand is his first novel.

“In ‘Winchester,’ Robert Jones has written not just a great Western tale, but a great American story,” said Kathie McGuire, director of Brighton Publishing LLC. “His imagination is so full that readers are transported back in time and place, right into the story. Jones ranks right up there with Jack Finney and Caleb Carr in his vivid depictions of an America that now exists only in picture books and novels, and his growing legion of fans is a testament to the strength of his work.”

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