A Shawnee woman has pretty much taken over the baby anyway. She decides she must abandon the baby girl she had en route to her slavery. Thom constantly lets you inside Mary's head to know her thoughts, fears, regrets. The book is so much more fun to experience, so rich in detail, and author James A.
Will is all she has left to remind her of who she truly is. Her life further ruined and disrupted, she makes a fateful decision: either return home to Virginia and to her husband William, or life is not worth living. Bettie is given as a wife to a Shawnee man, and Mary herself is sold to French traders, along with a new friend, Ghetel, an elderly Dutch widow.
Her sons are adopted and taken to still another faraway Shawnee settlement. Eventually, in a few weeks as a captive, she loses her family. Ingles' life is scattered, devastated and all but destroyed. Virginia thru the New River Gorge, on to the mighty Ohio River, and into Southern Ohio (present site of Portsmouth).
Then they abducted her, her two little boys, her sister in law Bettie, and a neighbor named Lenard, and took them from Virginia, up into W. On July 8, 1755, Shawnee Native Americans raided her settlement in Virginia, killed many of her neighbors, and even killed her mother. Her third baby was actually due to be born any day. But to make a TV movie that squishes 5 months in a woman's life into 2 commercial ridden hours, and sanitizes the facts too? Foul!!! Mary Draper Ingles was a young mother of three. They should have made an epic feature film about the unforgettable protag and her true story. That they made a little TV movie based on this wonderful work was bad enough. "This is the most INSPIRING story I've read in a long long time." I, not being much of a reader at that age, took this book, and COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!! It is, to this day, my all time favorite novel. In 1985, when I was 14 years old, my mother came into my room and handed me a paperback book called FOLLOW THE RIVER. I submitted a review not long ago, but I don't think it was accepted because I had a lot of political commentary about not so politically correct stuff.
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