The Wyoming Chronicles Books

FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES AN ENTIRELY NEW TYPE OF WESTERN – A CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN. For anthropology graduate student Sam Delgado, headed to the wilds of Wyoming, this is his last chance to save his graduate career. He and his urban classmates see this as the adventure of a lifetime: They are going to horse-pack in the wilderness to map and test a high-altitude archaeological site. Until a cyber-attack collapses the American banking system, and an already fractured nation descends into anarchy and chaos. All credit frozen, Sam and his archaeological field school is trapped in their high-altitude camp. With return to the East impossible, Sam, the woman he has come to love, and the rest of the students must rely on hard-bitten Wyoming ranchers for their very survival. Guided only by an illusive Shoshone spirit helper, Sam will discover the meaning of self-sacrifice. Even at the cost of his life. Haunting, provoking, frightening and prescient – in the end, all that stands between civilization and barbarism is one young man’s courage and belief in himself. “Gear is a master when it comes to vividly described settings: you can smell the smoke, hear the wind in the trees, and feel the cold.”

2023 International Book Awards: Winner Best Adventure/Thriller FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN, DISSOLUTION . Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the American banking system. On the advice of her boyfriend, a special forces lieutenant, she is told to flee Colorado Springs and make her way to Tappan Ranch in Wyoming. As the country continues to fall apart, Lauren and Randy Howman, a co-worker at her bank, make their way through the Colorado Rockies. On the advice of Tiffany Bishop, an old friend in Laramie, Lauren goes to work with an old boyfriend, Mike Vinich, providing FEMA provisions to refugees housed on a ranch outside of Cheyenne. There, she runs supplies to the outposts being established along the Wyoming/ Colorado line—what Governor Agar calls The Fourth Quadrant. When a riot breaks out and Mike is shot, Lauren ends up being called a hero. But fame comes at a great personal cost, and Lauren’s demons are closing in. Pulled from duty along the Fourth Quadrant, and with Mike in a coma, Lauren learns of a raid on Laramie. There, she is taken hostage along with a busload of school children. With nothing left to lose, and nothing to live for, Lauren is forced to make one last gamble… “Gear is a master when it comes to vividly described settings: you can smell the smoke, hear the wind in the trees, and feel the cold.”

2024 International Book Awards: Winner Best Adventure/Thriller 2024 International Book Awards: Winner Best Science Fiction 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Awards: Bronze Medallion FROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE THIRD INSTALLMENT IN THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN SERIES, THE WYOMING CHRONICLES! In the aftermath of Sam Delgado and Breeze Tappan’s ambush of the posse at Slickside, tempers flare in the Bighorn Basin. During an attempt to stop unchecked violence from breaking out, Governor Agar faces death, saved only when Lauren Davis shoots first. After the Collapse, insulin is in short supply for the 40 thousand diabetics in Wyoming. Word comes down there's a lab north of Boulder, Colorado, that can make insulin in sufficient quantities to keep people alive. Governor Agar handpicks a team–The Fallen Eagle convoy–to retrieve the scientists and their lab in a desperate bid to save the lives of his constituents–at a cost some will consider too high. As Lauren joins Governor Agar’s security detail, Sam and Breeze are sent south.There, in the midst of violence, road blocks, and gangs, the Fallen Eagle convoy comes face to face with the depths of human barbarity and a cunning adversary that will do anything to stop them. In the end, however, it comes down to Sam and Breeze. One of them will have to make the supreme sacrifice in a desperate race against the clock and a cunning enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy the Fallen Eagle convoy. Or, in Sam’s words, “Never bring a pickup truck to a snowplow fight.” Written with the wit, tension, and action readers of the bestselling Dissolution and Fourth Quadrant have come to expect, Michael Gear’s After the Eagle Has Fallen takes the Wyoming Chronicles series to the next level. Once again, New York Times bestselling and Western Writers Hall of Fame author, W. Michael Gear, shows his mastery in this superbly crafted tale!