NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “It takes a rare individual not only to see that history can live, but also to make it live for others. James Thom has that gift.”—The Indianapolis News
Mary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit.
With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness no white woman had ever seen. Her story lives on—extraordinary testimony to the indomitable strength of one pioneer woman who risked her life to return to her own people.
- ISBN10 0345284801
- ISBN13 9780345284808
- Publish Date 12 July 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ballantine Books
- Edition Ballantine Books ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 399
- Language English