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Follow the River is a 1995 ABC television movie, based on the book Follow the River by James Alexander Thom, that recounts the aftermath of the Draper's Meadow Massacre of 1755. In particular the kidnapping of Mary Ingles by Shawnee, her enslavement, escape, and epic overland journey to reach home. [1]
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
The story of Mary Draper Ingles' escape and journey home has inspired a number of books, films, and living history programs, including the popular 1981 novel Follow the River by James Alexander Thom, a 1995 ABC television movie Follow the River, and the 2004 film The Captives.
Follow the River: 1995 A film surrounding events after the Draper's Meadow Massacre of 1755. The Four Feathers: 1939: A British film about the story of a young British private during the Sudan campaign of 1898 of the Mahdist War. Four Men and a Prayer: 1938 A British Army Officer, is cashiered in India following accusations of dereliction of ...
James Thom was born May 28, 1933, in Gosport, Indiana, to Jay Webb and Julia Thom, both doctors. [2] [3] He is one of four siblings. [2]He attended Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, and was in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years (1953-1956) during the Korean War, becoming a sergeant.
Sheryl Lee (born April 22, 1967) is an American film, stage, and television actress. After studying acting in college, Lee relocated to Seattle, Washington to work in theater, where she was cast by David Lynch as Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson on the 1990 television series Twin Peaks and in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.
He starred in Disney's The Scarlet Letter and Tom and Huck with Amy Wright in 1995. In 1996 he appeared as a Comanche protagonist, Buffalo Hump, in the Larry McMurtry miniseries Dead Man's Walk . More recently, he played the lead role in films addressing more contemporary issues facing aboriginal and Native American people: Skins (2002 ...
Follow the Leader: (1930 & 1944) Follow the Legion (1942) Follow Me (1989) Follow Me! (1972) Follow Me Home (1996) Follow Me My Queen (2015) Follow Me Quietly (1949) Follow Me, Boys! (1966) Follow Me, Scoundrels (1964) Follow the Prophet (2009) Follow the River (1995 TV) Follow a Star (1959) Follow the Star (1978) Follow the Stars Home (2001 TV ...