James Alexander Thom
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James Alexander Thom (born 1933) is an American author, most famous for his works in the Western genre. Born in Gosport, Indiana, he graduated from Butler University and served in the United States Marine Corps. He is a former professor of journalism at Indiana University, and a contributor to the The Saturday Evening Post. His wife, Dark Rain Thom, is a member of the Shawnee National Tribe; the Thoms presently live in the "Indiana hill country" near Bloomington.
[edit] Works
- Spectator Sport
- Long Knife (a novelized biography of George Rogers Clark)
- From Sea to Shining Sea
- Panther in the Sky (a novelized biography of Tecumseh)
- Follow the River (based on the Draper's Meadow massacre)
- Red Heart
- Sign Talker (a novelized biography of George Drouillard)
- Warrior Woman, co-written with Dark Rain Thom (a novelized biography of Nonhelema)
- The Children of First Man
- St. Patrick's Battalion (a novel about Saint Patrick's Battalion in the Mexican-American War of 1846)
