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Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary... read more
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- Mary Draper Ingels: twenty-three years old and pregnant, Mary is taken captive when Indians raid her Virginia settlement. She later escapes to make her way back to her people.
- Bettie Draper: Mary's sister-in-law, who is also taken captive
- Georgie: Mary's son
- Johnny Draper: Mary's brother, Bettie's husband, who sets out with Will to search for the two captive women
- Goulart: French trader who uses Mary as a seamstress at his Shawnee trading post
- William Ingles: Mary's husband, who searches for her with Johnny
- Tommy: Mary's son
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- Gander Jack: an Indian tracker hired to help Will and Johnny find their wivse
- Henry Lenard: a man from Draper's Meadow who was also taken captive with Mary and Bettie
- Otter Girl: an Indian squaw who dotes on Mary's baby daughter
- Ghetel Stumf: Old Danish captive of the Shawnee
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SHE SHIVERED, DESPITE THE HEAT OF THE HEARTH, AND glanced again toward the sunny rectangle of the cabin door.
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- James Alexander Thom (Author)
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Page Count: 416
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- Dewey: 813.54
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