Follow the River: A NovelNATIONAL 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. |
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... Sinking Creek to Philip Lybrook's house to ask him to come up and help with the barley cutting . James Patton leaned back in his chair and looked at the page upon which he had been writing . He put the quill in the ink bottle and ...
... Sinking Creek to Philip Lybrook's house to ask him to come up and help with the barley cutting . James Patton leaned back in his chair and looked at the page upon which he had been writing . He put the quill in the ink bottle and ...
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... Sinking Creek , whereon Mr. and Mrs. Lybrook lived farther down . And their house was the last they would encounter . At the end of Sinking Creek they would come to the New River , upon which , she knew , no white man lived . Adam ...
... Sinking Creek , whereon Mr. and Mrs. Lybrook lived farther down . And their house was the last they would encounter . At the end of Sinking Creek they would come to the New River , upon which , she knew , no white man lived . Adam ...
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... sinking Creek toward the Lybrook house . The warriors were in a cheerful mood now , laughing and chatting , as if the beheading of Philip Barger had fulfilled some last require- ment of their bloody mission . Revenge , perhaps , for ...
... sinking Creek toward the Lybrook house . The warriors were in a cheerful mood now , laughing and chatting , as if the beheading of Philip Barger had fulfilled some last require- ment of their bloody mission . Revenge , perhaps , for ...
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... Sinking Creek , aye , but minutes ago . The chieftain emerged from the garden now and stopped a pace in front of Mrs. Lybrook . He raised a cloth bag darkened with blood and held it up to her . Johnny was quaking so hard he was shaking ...
... Sinking Creek , aye , but minutes ago . The chieftain emerged from the garden now and stopped a pace in front of Mrs. Lybrook . He raised a cloth bag darkened with blood and held it up to her . Johnny was quaking so hard he was shaking ...
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... Sinking Creek . But , she realized , we might have crossed a mountain and I'd not have noticed . With a sudden surge ... Sinking Creek , she thought , I could find my way back just by going upstream ! It was a wonderful revela- tion ...
... Sinking Creek . But , she realized , we might have crossed a mountain and I'd not have noticed . With a sudden surge ... Sinking Creek , she thought , I could find my way back just by going upstream ! It was a wonderful revela- tion ...
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aching baby bank began Bettie Bettie's blanket blood breath burning spring cabin camp canoe captives Cherokee chieftain cliff climbing cold comfrey County Donegal creek dark Draper's Meadows eyes face feel feet Gander Jack Ghetel Goulart gray ground hair hand Harmon head heard heart Henry Lenard hickory horse Indians JAMES ALEXANDER THOM Jim Thom John Ingles Kispoko knees knew LaPlante leaves legs looked Lybrook Mary Draper Ingles Mary felt Mary Ingles Mary thought Mary's May-ry miles Mister mountain mouth moved night old woman pain pulled remembered ridge river river's edge rock salt salt lick seemed Shawnee town shore shoulder side Sinking Creek skin slope smile Snake Stick spear squaw stone stood stopped stream suddenly sure talk tomahawk Tommy and Georgie trees tried trying turned valley voice walk warriors watched Wildcat woods