Mary Draper Ingles was 23 years old when she was captured by the Shawnee near Blacksburg, VA, July 30, 1755, along with her sister, her one and three year old sons Thomas and George and some others. She was with the Indians until around mid-October, 1755, when she managed to elude them. She required approximately 45 days to find her way back to Virginia. Her son, John Ingles, wrote down Mary's story, and it has been made into the outdoor drama, "The Long Way Home," performed during the summer in Radford, VA. I believe the title of John Ingles book was something like "The Story of Mary Draper Ingles and son Thomas Ingles," ed. by Roberta Ingles Steele and Andrew Louis Ingles, published by Radford College and the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1969. Other books may have been written about this famous incident. Annette Elam Wetzel On Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:52:18 +0000 Harold Miller <[email protected]> writes: >Speaking of books....can anyone tell me the name of the book about the woman >captured by Indians at Draper Meadows who later escaped, in her old age she >told her story. I cannot remember if she was a Draper or an Ingles. this >was early on frontier of VA. I read it a long time ago, would like to read >it again. Does anyone know the book I am talking about? Mary