My professional life began in the dark basement of the Museum of Cultural History in Los Angeles where I was cataloguing three-hundred-year-old Guatemalan saint statues. I quit this fascinating job and moved to Wyoming to work for the U.S. Department of the Interior as a historian and archaeologist. When I finally realized the error of my ways, I quit and started writing books. Since then, I've authored or co-authored 54 novels and over 200 non-fiction articles about history, archaeology, and bison conservation.I'm married--until he comes to his senses--to W. Michael Gear, archaeologist and novelist, and we live at the edge of the Wind River Reservation in the Owl Creek Mountains of Wyoming with two Shetland sheep dogs and a herd of buffalo.