Search - List of Books by James Alexander Thom
James Alexander Thom (born May 28, 1933) is an American author; he is best known for his works of historical fiction. Born in Gosport, Indiana to Julia and Jay Thom, two medical doctors, he graduated from the Journalism School at Butler University in 1961 and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Korean conflict. He was the business editor of the Indianapolis Star, the senior editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and on the journalism faculty at Indiana University (1977-1980).
- Spectator Sport
- Staying Out of Hell
- Long Knife (a novelized biography of George Rogers Clark)
- From Sea to Shining Sea (based on the Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific)
- Panther in the Sky (a novelized biography of Tecumseh, the Shawnee Indian chieftian)
- 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)
Total Books: 43