James Alexander Thom

James Alexander Thom (born 1933) is an American author, most famous for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history; known for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research. Born in Gosport, Indiana, he graduated from Butler University and served in the United States Marine Corps. He taught one course in journalism at Indiana University, and was a contributor to the The Saturday Evening Post. He and his fifth wife, Claudia "Dark Rain" Thom, presently live in the "Indiana hill country" near Bloomington.^[1]

Works

Spectator Sport
Staying Out of Hell
Long Knife (a novelized biography of General George Rogers Clark, Revolutionary War Hero, victor of the Battle of Fort Sackville in Vincennes, Indiana, and conqueror of the Northwest Territory)
From Sea to Shining Sea (a novelized biography based on the lives of the John and Ann Rogers Clark family, their 10 children which included brothers General George Rogers Clark, Revolutionary War Hero, and Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific)
Panther in the Sky (a novelized biography of Tecumseh, the Shawnee Indian chieftain)
Follow the River (based on the Draper's Meadow massacre of 1755)
Red Heart
Sign Talker (a novelized biography of George Drouillard)
Warrior Woman, co-written with Claudia 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)
The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction