![]() ![]() But when the Shawnee chief asks for her hand, she turns him down so he sells her to a pair of French traders to work in their store, keeping her sons to raise as braves. Mary has a sewing basket and goes into shirtmaking for profit. (Almost bleeding to death, she nonetheless keeps a cheerful face for the Indians, who respect strength.) They spend 17 days at a salt lick, killing and salting game for winter, then push on to the great O-y-o (Ohio) River and follow that until reaching the Shawnee village-where prisoners are stripped and made to run a gauntlet of whippers before being adopted by Indian families. ![]() She, her two sons, and sister-in-law Bettie are taken downstream on Sinking Creek-as Mary gives birth to a daughter, then next morning must ride horseback or be slaughtered. In 1755 Mary Draper Ingles, 23, pregnant mother of two, is kidnapped by Shawnees following their massacre of Mary's West Virginia settlement-a vivid bloodletting. Fleshed out from historical accounts and records, this is a strong novelization of a true woman-versus-nature ordeal. ![]()
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