James Alexander Thom


James Alexander Craig Thom is 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 1961 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.

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Thom married Dark Rain in 1990. Dark Rain is co-author with Thom of the books Warrior Woman and The Shawnee: Kohkumthena's Grandchildren; she is the Water Panther Clan Mother of the East of the River Shawnee of Ohio.

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