What Really Happened at Drapers Meadows? The Evolution of a Frontier Legend

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2003

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Montgomery County Branch Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Pocahontas Press, Inc.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of History

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A detailed account of the Drapers Meadow Massacre and the story of Mary Draper Ingles, her capture, escape, and later life.

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History, Southwest Virginia, Blue Ridge

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