Follow the River

Author : James Alexander Thom

Genre : Historical Fiction

James Alexander Thom has written a meticulously researched story about Mary Ingles. At age twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child, Shawnee Indians invade her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnap her and her two sons, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months she lives in their village up the Ohio River. With the Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles and her Dutch companion walk one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness back to her home in Virginia. This is a true story of a woman of courage and unending determination.