Mary Ingles was a 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.
Authors Note: "Among the annals of Indian captivity there are many which recount suffering and tortures one can hardly imagine, and there were several escapes that seemed all but incredible. But the one I have treated in this book is, to me, the most amazing and inspiring. It is one of those focused demonstrations of what the human spirit not just the hardened, trained spirit of the professional soldier or adventurer, but the spirit of a vulnerable, frightened, "ordinary" person can endure."
