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About the Authors

Kathleen O’Neal Gear is a former state historian and archaeologist for Wyoming, Kansas, and Nebraska for the U.S. Department of the Interior. She has twice received the federal government’s Special Achievement Award for “outstanding management” of our nation’s cultural heritage.

 

W. Michael Gear, who holds a master’s degree in archaeology, has worked as a professional archaeologist since 1978. He is currently principal investigator for Wind River Archaeological Consultants.

 

The Gears, whose North America’s Forgotten Past Series are international,
USA Today,
and
New York Times
bestsellers, live in Thermopolis, Wyoming.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.

 

 

THE BROKEN LAND

Copyright © 2011 by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear

All rights reserved.

 

 

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Maps and illustrations by Ellisa Mitchell

 

 

eISBN 9781466815582

First eBook Edition : March 2012

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gear, Kathleen O’Neal.

The broken land : a people of the longhouse novel / Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear.—1st ed.

p. cm.—(North America’s forgotten past ; no. 19)

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN 978-0-7653-2694-2

1. Iroquoian Indians—Fiction. I. Gear, W. Michael. II. Title.

PS3557.E18B76 2012

813’.54—dc22

2011025170

First Edition: January 2012

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