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Stan Paregien, Editor
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Kathleen O'Neal Gear was born in Tulare, CA., in 1954. She received the B.A. degree in anthropology from California State University (Bakersfield). She studied the history of religions at Hebrew University in Isreael and has an M.A. degree in American Indian Religions from California State University (Chico). She served for many years as State Historian for the U.S. Department of the Interior in Wyoming, but she retired to finish a Ph.D in History.
In 1985, the U.S. Department of the Interior bestowed two awards upon Kathleen O'Neal Gear: one for excellence in management of Wyoming's historic resources, and another for similar work in the Casper District. She is the author of Cheyenne and the Development of Wyoming (City of Cheyenne) and Your Cultural heritage (Government Printing Office).
W. Michael Gear
Michael W. Gear was born on May 20, 1955 at Colorado Springs, Colo. He is married to the former Kathleen O'Neal. He received his high school diploma in 1972 from Fort Collins (Colo.) High School. He received his B.A. in Anthropology in 1976 and his M.A. in 1979, both from Colorado State University.
He has done extensive anthropological field research and has written numerous technical papers. From Sept. 1979 to Oct. 1980, he was the Crew Chief and Project Director for Archaeological Services of Western Wyoming College. And in 1981 he held the same job with Metcalf-Zier Archaeologists, Inc., Eagle, Colo.
From 1982 to March, 1985, he was the principal investigator and a general partner of Pronghorn Anthropological Associates, in Casper, Wy. Then from January, 1985 to December, 1987 he was a consultant archaeologist in Wyoming, North Dakota and Utah.
He has written 14 novels, selling four of them in one week during March, 1987. His westerns include Big Horn Legacy (Zebra, 1988), Long Ride Home (TOR, 1988) and Wolf Dream, the latter co-authored with his wife (TOR, 1989). Long ride home was nominated by WWA for best novel of the west, best cover art, and nominated for the Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.
W. Michael Gear's non-western books are in the science fiction field, where he manages to include a great deal of American Indian mysticism.
Georgina Gentry
Georgina Gentry is Lynne Murphy's penname for her romance novels. See her biography under LYNNE MURPHY.
Peter Germano
(Deceased)
Peter Germano was born to Italian immigrant parents in New Bedford, Mass. He sold his first pulp Western before he turned 20. He wrote Westerns as "Barry Cord," "Jackson Cole," and "Jack Slade"; science fiction as "Jack Bertin," and crime and adventure stories as "Jim Kane".
Germano joined the Marines in 1942, then married Muriel Garant in 1943. He spent his war years as a combat correspondent in the South Pacific, returning home in 1945. He was working for the Continental Screw Company for 27 cents per hour when he sold his first Western story, a 6,000 worder to Western Trails. Germano said of that sale, "I received a check for $60, and it was more money than I had seen at one time."
His first novel was published in 1948 by Phoenix Press, and he added at least 40 more books with various publishers over the years. Some have been reprinted in different languages. He went to Brown University in Mass. on the GI Bill, but after three years he was recalled to active duty for the Korean conflict. After that duty, he and Muriel moved to Anaheim, Calif. He earned his B.A. from Chapman College.
Peter Germano sold his first TV Western script to the series "Wanted: Dead or Alive" in 1959, at which time he became a member of the Writers Guild of America. He also wrote scripts for "Wagon Train," "The Time Tunnel," "Bonanza," "Grizzly Adams," and "Buck Rogers". Meanwhile, he earned his M.A. at Loyola University and taught communications courses there for three years.
Germano was a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association.He joined WWA in 1961, at the urging of Tommy Thompson. He and Thompson worked together on several TV projects. He attended his first WWA convention in Portland, Oregon in 1964. (See his article, "Up From the Pulps," in the April, 1981 issue of The Roundup.)
Peter Germano died of a heart attack on Sept. 20, 1983, at the age of 70.
Dr. Arrel Morgan Gibson
Dr. Arrel Morgan Gibson or just "Luke", as he preferred to be called, was a history professor at the University of Oklahoma for many years and was the author of 23 books. He was named Oklahoma Writer of the Year in 1972 for his book, The Chickasaws (University of Oklahoma Press, 1981). He received the Distinguished Service Citation from the University of Oklahoma, and he was a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
Gibson's other books included Wilderness Bonanza (OU Press, 1972), The Santa Fe & Taos Colonies (OU Press, 1983), The Encyclopedia of Missouri (Somerset, 1985), The Oklahoma Story (OU Press, 1986), The History of Oklahoma (OU Press, 1986), Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries, 2nd ed.(OU Press,1986), The Life & Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain (OU Press, 1986).
A.M. Gibson died in 1987.
Helen Gibson
Helen Gibson, actress, was born as Rose August Wenger on Aug. 27, 1892 in Cleveland, OH. Her movie career spanned from 1914 to 1962. She was a fearless athlete who performed many dangerous stunts for other women and in her own movies. In 1922 she was a feature star at the Miller Brother's "101 Ranch Round-up and Indian Camp" near Ponca City, Okla., on Sept. 2-4.
Helen Gibson was the first wife of Western movie star Hoot Gibson.
Her Western movie roles included "The Vanishing West" (1928), "The Way of the West" (1934), "Cyclone of the Saddle" (1935), and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962).
Helen Gibson had a stroke and then a heart attack. She died on Oct. 10, 1977 at Roseburg, OR.
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Hoot Gibson
(Deceased)
Hoot Gibson, cowboy and movie star, was born as Edmund Gibson on August 6, 1892 at Tekamah, NB. He was a veteran rodeo performer as a teenager. And he won the "World's All-Around Champion Cowboy" title when he was just twenty-years old.Hoot Gibson made more than 200 movies during his 50-year career. He was paid $50 for his first movie, "The Two Brothers," in 1910.
Gibson went into the Army during World War I. When he returned to acting, he was billed as "The Smiling Whirlwind." That was a reference to the fact that in his cowboy movies he often did not even carry a gun, and he often defused tense situations with humor rather than a fight.
B y 1931 he was making at least $16,000 per movie
Hoot Gibson in "The Mounted Stranger" (1930), one of his
early "talkies." It contains one scene in which Pee Wee Williams
and Francis Ford "harmonize" 'round the campfire, in a spoof of
the popular "singing Western movies".Hoot Gibson died on ____ , 1962. He was buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery (Magnolia Plot, Lot 92, Grave 6) in, Inglewood , CA.
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Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson was born as Mel Columcille Gibson on Jan. 3, 1956 in Peekskill, NY.
He grew up in Australia and studied acting at the National Insitutute of Dramatic Art.
He achieved stardom in 1981 with his movie, "Road Warrior". In 1996 Gibson won a "Best Director" Academy Award for the movie "Braveheart, " in which he also starred.
He also starred in the Western movie, "Maverick."
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whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord does not
count against him.
--- Bible: Psalm 32:1-2
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