the tale of Mary Draper Ingles

1. Follow The River

2. Where were the husbands??
They were out tending to crops and return
and had seen the aftermath of the battle.
July 8th 1755
Drapers Meadows present
day Blacksburg, Va
Indian raid
Prisoners were
taken

3. The Journey

4. •Bettie Drapper-
Indian Village near
Chillicothe
Thomas Drapper-
Detroit
George Drapper dies
Mary Ingles- a salt lick
near Cincinnati
At the Scioto and
Ohio River the
Group splits up

5. From summer to Fall
• Mary and a Dutch woman escape together
• Leaves baby behind
• No supplies lives off land
• Six weeks= 500 miles