James Alexander Craig Thom was an American author, best known for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history which are noted for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research. Thom graduated from Butler University in 1960 with a BA in Journalism after serving in the United States Marine Corps in the Korean War. He taught a course in journalism at Indiana University, and was a contributor to The Saturday Evening Post. His best known book is Follow the River, based on the Draper's Meadow massacre of 1755.
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Follow the River A Novel
1986
ISBN 9780345338549
From Sea to Shining Sea
1986
ISBN 9780345334510
Follow the River
1986
ISBN 9780613123792
Panther in the Sky A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh
1990
ISBN 9780345366382
Long Knife A Novel
1994
ISBN 9780345380746
The Children of First Man
1995
ISBN 9780449149706
The Red Heart
1998
ISBN 9780345364715
Sign-Talker The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
2003
ISBN 9780345465566
Warrior Woman The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief
2004
ISBN 9780345445551