James Alexander Thom

Panther in the Sky (1990)

Chief Tecumseh is my new hero. What an amazing individual. Many of the details of his life are in dispute and largely apocryphal, but there is no question that he was a brave visionary, extremely intelligent and able to inspire loyalty and devotion from all who knew him (white men included). Th...

Sign-Talker: The Adventure of George Drouillard on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (2003)

This is a book by a Bloomington author, James Alexander Thom, about the Lewis & Clark expedition, the Corps of Discovery that went from St. Louis to Oregon and back when Th. Jefferson was president (Madison was president by the time they returned). This is a subject I'm really familiar with, not ...

From Sea to Shining Sea (1986)

Long Knife (1994)

Follow the River (1986)

I chose to read "Follow the River" by James Alexander Thom not so much to be entertained and inspired by the story of Mary Ingles’s escape in 1755 from Indian captivity and her torturous return from the Ohio River to her family’s frontier settlement west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I had read a...