Gerry Barker

Retired from the U. S. Army with sixteen years in Special Forces,Gerry Barker studied and taught history. His passion has been for living history experiments and adventures that help him understand what it was like to live and work on the Midwestern frontier. Pursuing this, he has taken part in recreated campaigns, built homesteads and stations, driven horses and oxen endless miles on historic trails and been a participant in a number of recreated historic events. These are the grist for his writings. His research is burrowing into the lives and work of his subjects. Gerry has had over fifty articles in print in various magazines, and is a regular contributor to Muzzleloader and The Journal of the Early Americas. His books, both fiction and non-fiction, are steeped in this fervent search to understand the people who lived and worked on the American frontier.