Follow the River

James Alexander Thom

Random House Publishing Group, Nov 12, 1986 - Fiction - 416 pages

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.

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Another one of my all time favs. It's pretty graphic in its violence but its based on a true story and I love it anyway!

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 17
• Section 3: 27

About the author

James Alexander Thom was formerly a U.S. Marine, a newspaper and magazine editor, and a member of the faculty at the Indiana University Journalism School. He is the acclaimed author of "Follow the River"; "Long Knife"; "From Sea to Shining Sea"; "Panther in the Sky," for which he won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur Award for best historical novel; "The Children of First Man"; "The Red Heart"; and "Sign-Talker," He lives in the Indiana hill country near Bloomington with his wife, Dark Rain, of the Shawnee Nation, United Remnant Band. Dark Rain is a member of the National Council, which is planning the Lewis and Clark bicentennial celebration.

"From the Hardcover edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Follow the River
• Author: James Alexander Thom
• Edition: reissue, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1986
• ISBN: 0345338545, 9780345338549
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Biographical fiction; Captivity narratives; Courage; Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Sagas; Frontier and pioneer life; Frontier and pioneer life/ Fiction; Historical fiction; Indian captivities; Indian captivities/ Fiction; Indians of North America; Ingles, Mary Draper; Kentucky; Ohio River; Virginia; West Virginia; Women pioneers; Women pioneers/ Fiction