James Alexander Thom

Works

Nonfiction Let the Sunshine In (a collection of essays) (Gibson Publishing, 1976) The Spirit of the Place: Indiana Hill Country, photographs by Darryl L. Jones, Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN), 1995. Indiana II, Graphic Arts Center (Portland, OR), 1996. The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fiction (Writer’s Digest Books, 2010)

Fiction Spectator Sport (a novel about the tragic events of the 1973 Indianapolis 500 auto race) (1978) Long Knife (a novelized biography of General George Rogers Clark, victor of the Battle of Fort Sackville in Vincennes, Indiana, and conqueror of the Northwest Territory) (Avon, 1979) Follow the River (based on the Draper's Meadow massacre of 1755) (Ballantine Books, 1981) 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 and Captain William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific) (Villard Books, 1984) Staying Out of Hell (Ballantine Books, 1985) Panther in the Sky (a novelized biography of Tecumseh, the Shawnee Indian chieftain) (Ballantine Books, 1989) The Children of First Man (a novelization of the Welsh prince Madoc and the genesis and the demise of the Mandan Indian Tribe) (Fawcett, 1994) Red Heart (a novelization of the abduction and life of Frances Slocum in 1778) (Random House, 1997) Sign Talker (a novelized biography of George Drouillard, who was with Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery expedition) (Ballantine Books, 2000) Warrior Woman (with Dark Rain Thom, a novel about the life of Shawnee peace chief Nonhelema, born ca. 1720) (Random House, 2003) St. Patrick's Battalion (a novel about Saint Patrick's Battalion in the Mexican–American War of 1846) (Ballantine Books, 2006) Fire in the Water (Blue River Press, 2016)

Film adaptations Follow the River (1995), TV-movie based on the novel (ABC / Signboard Hill Productions) Tecumseh: The Last Warrior (1995), TV-movie based on Panther in the Sky (TNT / American Zoetrope)