Michael grew up in the West and lives with his family in Montana. He is a former partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm and his professional experience includes work on Capitol Hill and the White House National Security Council. He is the author of a novel, The Revenant, and two works of nonfiction:  Fire and Brimstone:  the North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 and Last Stand:  George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West.