Kathleen O'Neal Gear

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January 01, 1954 in Tulare, California, The United States

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Born in Tulare, California, in 1954, Kathleen O'Neal Gear is one of six children. Her parents, Harold Arthur O'Neal and Wanda Lillie O'Neal, left Oklahoma and Arkansas during the Dust Bowl and moved to California. For most of Kathleen's youth, her parents owned and operated a small farm in the central San Joaquin Valley of California, growing primarily cotton and alfalfa. But at the same time, her father authored more than fifty short stories, and her mother worked as a newspaper journalist.

Kathleen received her B.A., cum laude, from California State University in Bakersfield, and her M.A., summa cum laude, from California State University in Chico. She conducted Ph.D. studies at the University of California in Los Angeles and did post-grad...more Born in Tulare, California, in 1954, Kathleen O'Neal Gear is one of six children. Her parents, Harold Arthur O'Neal and Wanda Lillie O'Neal, left Oklahoma and Arkansas during the Dust Bowl and moved to California. For most of Kathleen's youth, her parents owned and operated a small farm in the central San Joaquin Valley of California, growing primarily cotton and alfalfa. But at the same time, her father authored more than fifty short stories, and her mother worked as a newspaper journalist.

Kathleen received her B.A., cum laude, from California State University in Bakersfield, and her M.A., summa cum laude, from California State University in Chico. She conducted Ph.D. studies at the University of California in Los Angeles and did post-graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

Her family always spent their summer vacations visiting historical and archaeological sites around the United States. Those trips left indelible impressions. She worked on her first archaeological excavation at the age of ten, and won her first writing contest at the age of thirteen, where she took first place in the American Legion essay contest held at Tipton Elementary School.

In the 1980's, she worked for the United States Department of the Interior as the Wyoming State Historian, and later as the Archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska. She has twice been the recipient of the federal government's "Special Achievement Award" for outstanding management of our nation's cultural heritage. She and Michael currently operate an anthropological research company called Wind River Archaeological Consultants.

She began writing full-time in 1986 and has over one hundred non-fiction publications in the fields of archaeology, history and writing, and has authored nine novels of her own, and co-authored, with her husband W. Michael Gear, twenty-three international bestsellers, which have been translated into twenty-one languages.

She and Michael live on a buffalo ranch in the Owl Creek Mountains of northern Wyoming.

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Update on Red Canyon Stone Circle Site

Update on the Red Canyon Stone Circle: As this is written Dr. Laura Scheiber’s field school is finishing up the excavation units for this season. Each meter was divided into 50cm squares and carefully trowelled down with artifacts recorded as they were exposed. All dirt was carefully separated, screen with 1/8th in mesh, then each bucket of matrix was water-screened in 1/16th mesh to retrieve t...

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Average rating: 3.99 · 14,299 ratings · 718 reviews · 58 distinct works

	People of the River (The First North Americans, #4) 4.04 avg rating — 905 ratings — published 1992 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Visitant (The Anasazi Mysteries, #1) by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 4.04 avg rating — 538 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Summoning God (The Anasazi Mysteries, #2) by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 4.16 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Bone Walker (The Anasazi Mysteries, #3) by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 4.25 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	It Sleeps in Me by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 3.63 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	It Wakes in Me 3.84 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	It Dreams in Me 4.03 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	People of the Fire (The First North Americans, #2) by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear 3.82 avg rating — 2,156 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Children of the Dawnland by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear 3.65 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	People of the Wolf (The First North Americans, #1) by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear 3.74 avg rating — 1,965 ratings — published 1952 — 16 editions	My rating:

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The Anasazi Mysteries (3 books)
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear

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Black Falcon Trilogy (3 books)
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February 2010, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
" Quick Start SS: How would you describe your life in only 8 words? KG: Archaeology, books, and bison. Exploration, romance, and adventure! SS: What is your motto or maxim? KG: Mike's motto: We may only have this one life: Live it well enough that ther..." ...More

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