Even Without an Established Trail, Hikers Can Follow Pioneer's Footsteps
Sunday Gazette-Mail (July 03, 2005)
Author: Maureen Crockett
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For the Sunday Gazette-Mail
Two hundred fifty years ago, a terrified and starving young woman walked through West Virginia, following the Ohio, Kanawha and New rivers. She was fleeing her Shawnee captors, trying to find her way home to Drapers Meadow, near present-day Blacksburg, Va. Fearful of wilderness perils, Mary Ingles enticed an elderly Dutch woman to escape with her.Even Without an Established Trail, Hikers Can Follow Pioneer's Footsteps
Fortunately, this 23-year-old mother was a pioneer, used to hard living. There were no roads, no Coke machines, no Kroger stores. They couldn't swim, so each time they came to a tributary, the women had to walk upstrea...
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