Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

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  • Bibliography:
    46 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1990
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Kathleen O'Neal Gear began her career in achaeology as a biblical archaeologist and historian. She received her master's degree in the history of religions, summa cum laude, was twice selected as an American Bible Society Scholar, and worked on excavations at the Sea of Galiliee. She was a state historian and aschaeologist in Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska for the U. S. Department of the Interior and has twice received the federal government's Special Avhievement Award for "oustanding management" of our nation's cultural heritage.

W. Michael Gear is a scholar in ancient Greek and Latin, holds a master's degree in archaeology, and has worked as a professional achaeologist since 1978.He is currently principal investigator for Wind River Archaeological Consultants.

The Gears are the authors of the International and USA Today bestselling North America's Forgotten Past novels, which include People of the Moon and People of the Weeping Eye. The Gears live in Thermopolis, Wyoming.

Full Series List in Order

The Anasazi Mysteries

1 - The Visitant (Aug-1999)
2 - The Summoning God (Jul-2000)
3 - Bone Walker (Nov-2001)
4 - Where the Basilisk Dreams (Oct-2023)
5 - The Two Hearted (Nov-2023)

Contact: The Battle for America

1 - Coming of the Storm (Feb-2010)
2 - Fire the Sky (Feb-2011)
3 - A Searing Wind (Mar-2012)

The First North Americans

1 - People of the Wolf (Jul-1990)
2 - People of the Fire (Jun-1991)
3 - People of the Earth (Feb-1992)
4 - People of the River (Jun-1992)
5 - People of the Sea (Nov-1993)
6 - People of the Lakes (Aug-1994)
7 - People of the Lightning (Nov-1995)
8 - People of the Silence (Dec-1996)
9 - People of the Mist (Nov-1997)
10 - People of the Masks (Oct-1998)
11 - People of the Owl (Jun-2004)
12 - People of the Raven (Sep-2004)
13 - People of the Moon (Oct-2005)
14 - People of the Nightland (Mar-2007)
15 - People of the Weeping Eye (Apr-2008)
16 - People of the Thunder (Jan-2009)
18 - Children of the Dawnland (Jul-2009)
18 - People of the Longhouse (Jul-2010)
19 - The Dawn Country (Mar-2011)
20 - The Broken Land (Jan-2012)
21 - The Black Sun (Oct-2012)
22 - People of the Black Sun (Sep-2013)
23 - People of the Morning Star (May-2014)
24 - People of the Songtrail (Jun-2015)
25 - Sun Born (Oct-2016)
26 - Moon Hunt (Nov-2017)
27 - Star Path (Jun-2019)
28 - People of the Canyons (Jun-2020)
29 - Lightning Shell (Jul-2022)

A People of the Longhouse Novel

1 - Children of the Dawnland (Jul-2009)
2 - The Dawn Country (Mar-2011)
3 - The Broken Land (Jan-2012)
4 - The Black Sun (Oct-2012)
5 - People of the Black Sun (Sep-2013)
6 - People of the Morning Star (May-2014)
7 - People of the Songtrail (Jun-2015)

People of Cahokia

1 - People of the Morning Star (May-2014)
2 - Sun Born (Oct-2016)
3 - Moon Hunt (Nov-2017)
4 - Star Path (Jun-2019)
5 - Lightning Shell (Jul-2022)

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • People of the Wolf

    The First North Americans - 1

    In the dawn of history, a valiant people forged a pathway from an old world into a new one. Led by a dreamer who followed the spirit of the wolf, a handful of courageous men and women dared to cross the frozen wastes to find an untouched, unspoiled c...

  • People of the Fire

    The First North Americans - 2

    It is a time of fire. A small band of pioneers struggle valiantly to keep their ancestors' dreams alive in an unforgiving, drought-stricken land. Driven by the promise of an awesome vision, a heroic young dreamer and a fearless woman warrior unite to...

  • People of the Earth

    The First North Americans - 3

    A sweeping epic of prehistory, PEOPLE OF THE EARTH brings the true story of the ancestors of today's Native American peoples to life in an unforgettable saga of hardship and passion, of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men ...

  • People of the River

    The First North Americans - 4

    A gripping new saga of pre-historic America that takes us to the Mississippi Valley and the tribe known as the Mound builders. It is a time of troubles. In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief--and the warrior woman he may never pos...

  • This Widowed Land

    Lovely Andiora is a Huron Indian in seventeenth-century North America. A seeress with a bond to the spirit world, she has beheld a frightening vision-of a blond man in a black robe, whose coming will bring death and despair to her people.

    Fath...

  • People of the Sea

    The First North Americans - 5

    The glaciers of the Sierra Nevada are melting, destroying the habitat of the mastodons, creating the rich land that will become California. The coastal people struggle to understand the changing world around them: their seer Sunchaser has lost his wa...

  • People of the Lakes

    The First North Americans - 6

    Set in what will become Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan, People of the Lakes is another spellbinding epic in New York Times and USA Today bestelling authors' W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's North America's Forgotten past saga. Clan ...

  • People of the Lightning

    The First North Americans - 7

    People of the Lightning takes us to ancient Florida, to a village of fisher folk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwader, now a lanky boy of fifteen summers. He is the White Lightning Boy--the first of his kind to be born in tens of tens of summe...

  • People of the Silence

    The First North Americans - 8

    At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150 the Anasazi empire of the Southwest would see no equal in North America for almost eight hundred years. Yet even at this cultural zenith, the Anasazi held the seeds of their own destruction deep within themselves.... O...



  • People of the Mist

    The First North Americans - 9

    With People of the Mist, bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear take us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entir...

  • People of the Masks

    The First North Americans - 10

    As the prophets have foretold, a child of power has been born unto the Turtle People of the Iroquois Nation. The Elders call him False Face Child, for he is the son of a powerful forest spirit. A living talisman, the child has inhuman eyes--black mir...

  • The Visitant

    The Anasazi Mysteries - 1

    At the dawn of the Age of the Katsinas... A woman runs away in search of a Spirit Helper and never returns... An ancient village is swept into a shattering crime beyond reason, beyond belief... An old man must learn to walk the dark labyrint...

  • The Summoning God

    The Anasazi Mysteries - 2

    Step back into the year A.D. 1263 ... and the secret lair of a kilter. He walks the ruins of a dying civilization, stalking the weak, the chosen, stalking them into terror. When War Chief Browser stumbles into the subterranean chamber filled with ...

  • Dark Inheritance

    A SECRET GENETIC EXPERIMENT Dr. Jim Dutton and his daughter, Brett are raising Umber, a bonobo chimp bred by pharmaceutical giant SAC. But Jim is slowly realizing that Umber, who reads, types, and even contemplates theology, is too intelligent to be...

  • Bone Walker

    The Anasazi Mysteries - 3

    Eight hundred years have passed since the Mogollon holy man was murdered in Flowing Waters Town. The threads of evil spun by Two Hearts are drawn across time to ensnare modern archaeologists Dusty Stewart and Maureen Cole. The 'Wolf Witch' has killed...

  • Raising Abel

    ONE TERRIFIED CHILD Veronica Tremain's nightmare begins with a phone call. Her anthropologist brother, Dr. Scott Ferris, has been savagely murdered. Within days other scientists on three continents start to die or disappear, and their labs and notes...

  • People of the Owl

    The First North Americans - 11

    New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear are famous for writing novels about prehistoric America that are fast-paced, steeped in cultural detail, and smart. In People of the Owl they combine their d...

  • People of the Raven

    The First North Americans - 12

    In People of the Raven, award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear spin a vivid and captivating tale around one of the most controversial archaeological discoveries in...

  • People of the Moon

    The First North Americans - 13

    The moon had reached its maximum three times since the Chacoans conquered the First Moon People. The Chaco matrons had built their Great House high atop First Moon Mountain, and their warriors stalked arrogantly through the villages, taking what t...



  • People of the Nightland

    The First North Americans - 14

    It has been a thousand years since Wolf Dreamer lead his people up through the dark hole in the ice to a rich, untouched continent bursting with game. But the world has changed. Most of the magnificent animals are gone, and the last of the great glac...

  • People of the Weeping Eye

    The First North Americans - 15

    People called Old White the "Seeker," a man never long with any people or place. For years he had wandered, leaving a trail of war, wonder, and broken love in his wake. Now he is headed home, called back by visions of chaos, blood, and fire. But t...

  • The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus

    There is an alternate story of the life of Jesus. One the early Church fathers found so menacing they outlawed the books that documented it, ordered them burned, and threatened anyone found copying them with death. International bestselling author...

  • People of the Thunder

    The First North Americans - 16

    By A.D. 1300, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split -Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's migh...

  • Children of the Dawnland

    A People of the Longhouse Novel - 1
    The First North Americans - 18

    Though only twelve summers old, Twig is a talented Dreamer. Sometimes she has spirit dreams -- dreams that come true. But her mother has always discouraged Twig from exploring her powers for fear that they would turn her strange, like the reclusive w...

  • Coming of the Storm

    Contact: The Battle for America - 1

    From New York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear comes a landmark new series portraying the devastating clash of cultures that followed the European invasion of early America. Dramatic, authentic, and deeply moving, this ...

  • People of the Longhouse

    The First North Americans - 18

    Born in a time of violent upheaval, young Odion and his little sister, Tutelo, live in fear that one day Yellowtail Village will be attacked. When that day comes and Odion and Tutelo are marched away as slaves, Odion's only hope is that his parents a...

  • Fire the Sky

    Contact: The Battle for America - 2

    New York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear have long been considered the foremost chroniclers of early Native American life. Now, in a critically acclaimed, sweeping new series, they recreate the conflict-filled years fo...

  • The Dawn Country

    A People of the Longhouse Novel - 2
    The First North Americans - 19

    Young Wrass is still being held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero's camp. Wrass knows he cant wait to be rescued. He has to organize the children for an assault on Gannajero's warriors. Even if he dies, someone has to escape, ...

  • The Broken Land

    A People of the Longhouse Novel - 3
    The First North Americans - 20

    A novel of North America's Forgotten Past Twelve summers after the events of The People of the Longhouse and The Dawn Country, the Iroquois nations remain locked in bitter warfare. Atotarho, the cannibal-sorcerer who leads the People of the Hills,...



  • A Searing Wind

    Contact: The Battle for America - 3

    Black Shell is an exile, banished by his people for his cowardice in battle. To his fearsome patron spirit, Horned Serpent, however, he is imbued with the courage and keenness to stop the Kristiano onslaught. He and his beautiful wife Pearl Hand have...

  • The Black Sun

    A People of the Longhouse Novel - 4
    The First North Americans - 21

    Dekanawida has become known as "The Sky Messenger," a prophet of immense power, and Hiawento is his Speaker. Thousands now believe in the Great Law of Peace and have joined the League. But they are still being harassed by marauding warriors from the ...

  • People of the Black Sun

    A People of the Longhouse Novel - 5
    The First North Americans - 22

    A novel of North America's Forgotten Past The epic tale that began in "The People of the Longhouse "draws to a close in "People of the Black Sun, "the final installation of the Iroquois quartet by bestselling authors and archaeologists Kathleen O'...

  • Copper Falcon

    Almost a thousand years ago, the North American continent was dominated by the great civilization known as Cahokia, which ruled a wide swath of land from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Cahokian settlements and Cahokian traders carried the peo...

  • People of the Morning Star

    A People of the Longhouse Novel - 6
    People of Cahokia - 1
    The First North Americans - 23

    Bestselling authors and archaeologists Michael and Kathleen Gear begin the stunning saga of the North American equivalent of ancient Rome in People of the Morning Star. The city of Cahokia, at its height, covered more than six square miles around...

  • The Dead Man's Doll

    To free a tortured ghost, a shaman will enter enemy land in the dead of winter. What he discovers is a world of magic unimaginable...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied....

  • People of the Songtrail

    A People of the Longhouse Novel - 7
    The First North Americans - 24

    On the shores of what is now northeastern Canada, a small group of intrepid settlers have landed, seeking freedom to worship and prosper far from the religious strife and political upheaval that plague a war-ridden Europe . . . 500 years before Co...

  • Sun Born

    People of Cahokia - 2
    The First North Americans - 25

    A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent from its capital near modern St. Louis. From Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, settlers and priests carried word of the power of their gods. People who would...

  • Moon Hunt

    People of Cahokia - 3
    The First North Americans - 26

    Moon Hunt is the third epic tale in the Morning Star series by New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Against the intricate majesty that was America’s greatest pre-Columbian city, the Gears have once again wo...

  • Star Path

    People of Cahokia - 4
    The First North Americans - 27

    The fourth novel in the Cahokian story cycle, Star Path is an evocative tale about America’s greatest pre-Columbian city by New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear How do you say no to a god? Cahokia recovers ...



  • People of the Canyons

    The First North Americans - 28

    In People of the Canyons, award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear bring us a tale of trapped magic, a tyrant who wants to wield its power...and a young girl who could ...

  • Fracture Event

    Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear bring us a gripping disaster thriller.The seas flood their banks. Storms devastate entire continents. Fires envelop the world i...

  • The Foundation

    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear comes a deadly battle of wits between hunter and hunted. What good is being the last person standing if all that's left i...

  • Lightning Shell

    People of Cahokia - 5
    The First North Americans - 29

    Lightning Shell marks the dramatic conclusion to the People of Cahokia sub-series by bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.Spotted Wrist’s squadrons are about to launch an assault on Evening Star Town. Meanwhile, the new Keeper’...

  • Where the Basilisk Dreams

    The Anasazi Mysteries - 4

    From New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear comes part two in the thrilling Anasazi mystery series. Archaeologists Dusty Stewart and Maureen Cole are excavating a bizarre site in the American Southwest, and the cl...

  • The Two Hearted

    The Anasazi Mysteries - 5

    From New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear comes part four in their compelling mystery series packed with ancient myth.Archeologist Dusty Stewart and Anthropologist Dr. Maureen Cole are still swept up in an eight...

  • Hunting Shadows

    From New York Times bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear comes part six in the thrilling Anasazi mystery series.Archaeologists Dusty Stewart and Maureen Cole are thrust further into a world of primeval danger when a close frie...

Award-Winning Books by Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

People of the Raven
2005 SPUR Award -- Novel of the West


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Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear has published 46 books.

Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Hunting Shadows, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear, People of the Wolf, was published in July 1990.

Yes. Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear has 5 series.
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