Thom Hatch

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Thom Hatch is an award-winning American author who specializes in the history of the Plains Indian Wars and the American Civil War.

A graduate of North Olmsted High School, located in North Olmsted, Ohio, Hatch served the United States Marine Corps in a Vietnam combat unit for 13 months before becoming a reporter for the Erie, Pennsylvania Times-News during the 1970s. He settled in Colorado in 1974 where he worked as a freelancer for film, television and radio industries, and has been a frequent contributor to national publications. His first book, Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, was published by McFarland in 1997. It sold out in hardback and was released in paperback in 2000. Hatch's "Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War" (John Wiley & Sons, 2004) was the winner of the 2005 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America as the best biography of the year.

Hatch, now a resident of Colorado for more than 30 years, lives with his wife, Lynn, and daughter, Cimarron.

[edit] Books by Thom Hatch

Black Kettle : The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace But Found War. ISBN 0-471-44592-4.
The Blue, the Gray, & the Red: Indian Campaigns of the Civil War. ISBN 0-8117-0016-X.
The Custer Companion. ISBN 0-8117-0477-7.
Clashes of Cavalry: The Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart. ISBN 0-8117-0356-8.
Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. ISBN 0-7864-0154-0.
Encyclopedia of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. ISBN 0-7864-0593-7.