Kathleen O'Neil Gear
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Campbell County High School, Gillette, Wyoming
I. Personal and Professional Life
Kathleen O'Neil Gear is a very interesting person. As a woman she has achieved many things, such as being a historian and archeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has also received awards for Federal Government and a Special Achievement Award for the most "Outstanding Management" of our nation's cultural heritage.
Kathleen is married to Michael W. Gear; they live in the Wind River Valley near Thermopolis, Wyoming. They have written many novels and stories together. Both of them are devoted novelist and have committed at least nine voluminous fictions about the first North Americans from pre-Colombian cultures up to the AD 14th century.
II. Literary Works
The Widowed Land
Thin Moon and Cold Mist
The Visitant
Co-Authored with Michael Gear
People of the Earth
Sand in the Wind
People of the Fire
People of the Lakes
People of the Lightning
People of the Masks
People of the Mist
People of the River
People of the Sea
People of the Silence
People of the Wolf
The Summoning
This essay was submitted by a student of Nathel Coca, a teacher at Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming.