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A Novel
by James Alexander Thom
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.
What are you reading this week? (4/17/2025)
My audiobook selection from the local library are a vast collection of random topics. I finished Follow The River by James Alexander Thom, a historical fiction about the colonial American living. It was great! A story set in Virginia, settlers trying to make a home and live amongst the...
-Mary_H1
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James Alexander Thom is the 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), Sign-Talker, The Children of First Man, and The Red Heart.
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