Wade Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, On Desperate Ground, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction.
Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and has written for such periodicals as National Geographic, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Esquire, Men’s Journal, The American Scholar, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post. His magazine work, collected in numerous published anthologies, has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing.
Books in order of publication:
Ghost Soldiers – 2001
Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier – 2004
Blood and Thunder – 2006
Hellhound on His Trail – 2010
In the Kingdom of Ice – 2014
On Desperate Ground – 2018
The Wide Wide Sea – 2024
Oak Lawn Library Friends 