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In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock,... read more

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MARY had loved the family axe as a glittering extension of her own arm.

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  1. Deborah Larsen (Author)

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