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W. Michael Gear was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the twentieth of May, 1955. A fourth generation Colorado native, his family had been involved in hard-rock mining, cattle ranching, and journalism. Gear's family moved to Fort Collins so that his father could pursue his Ph.D.. During those years the family lived in the foothills above Horsetooth Reservoir.

It was there that Mike developed a love of history, anthropology, and motorcycles. They would color his future and fill his imagination for the rest of his life. During summers he volunteered labor on local ranches and landed his first real job: picking up trash at the lake and cleaning outhouses. It has been said that his exposure to trash led him into archaeology. On his first dig as a professional archaeologist in 1976 he discovered that two thousand year old human trash isn't nearly as obnoxious as the new stuff.

Michael pursued both his Bachelor's (1976) and Master's (1979) degrees at Colorado State University. Upon completion of his Master's - his specialty was in physical anthropology - he went to work for Western Wyoming College in Rock Springs as a field archaeologist. In 1981, he met Kathleen O'Neal, an anthropologist and historian. Michael and Kathleen were married on October 1, 1982. In 1986, the two of them moved to the Colorado cabin at Empire. For the next three years, they pounded out novel after novel. Mike wrote eight before he finally sold one. Kathy wrote five non fiction books, and sold the first novel she ever pitched.

In all, Michael has published twelve novels under his own name and co-authored another seventeen with Kathleen. His work runs the gamut from historical, to prehistorical, to science fiction, to modern thrillers. All of his work deals with some aspect of anthropological theory.

Michael and Kathleen are currently at work drafting out the story for their next prehistory book, PEOPLE OF THE THUNDER, a novel set at Moundville, Alabama in the 1300s.

Dark Inheritance

People of the Owl

People of the Weeping Eve

Raising Abel

The Summoning God

The Visitant

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Gear, W. Michael & Gear, Kathleen - Dark Inheritance (Double-Signed, 1st)

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W. Michael Gear Bibliography

Forbidden Borders trilogy

Requiem for the Conqueror(1991)
Relic of Empire(1992)
Countermeasures (1993)

People Books - First North Americans (with Kathleen O'Neal Gear)

People of the Wolf(1990)
People of the Fire(1990)
People of the Earth (1992)
People of the River (1992)
People of the Sea (1993)
People of the Lakes (1994)
People of the Lightning (1995)
People of the Silence (1996)
People of the Mist (1997)
People of the Masks (1998)
People of the Owl (2003)
People of the Raven (2004)
People of the Moon (2005)
People of the Nightland (2007)
People of the Weeping Eye (2008)
People of the Thunder (2009)
People of the Longhouse (2010)

Way of Spider

The Warriors of Spider(1988)
The Way of Spider(1988)
The Web of Spider(1989)

The Richard Hamilton Duology

Morning River (1996)
Coyote Summer (1997)

Anasazi Mysteries

The Visitant (1999)
The Summoning God (2000)
Bone Walker (2001)

Other Novels

The Big Horn Legacy (1988)
Long Ride Home (1988)
The Artifact (1990)
Starstrike (1990)
Dark Inheritance (2001) (with Kathleen O'Neal Gear)
Raising Abel (2002) (with Kathleen O'Neal Gear)
The Athena Factor (2005)
The Betrayal. The Lost Life of Jesus (2008) (with Kathleen O'Neal Gear)
Children of the Dawnland (2009) (with Kathleen O'Neal Gear)