by James Alexander Thom. Softbound, 399 pages, 5" x 8". Mary Ingles was 23, happily married and pregnant when the Shawnee raided her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her,leaving behind a bloody massacre. After months of captivity, Mary escaped following the Ohio River. She walked a thousand miles through a wilderness no white woman had ever seen. Her story lives as an extraordinary testimony to the strength of a pioneer woman struggling to return to her own people.