Plot Synopsis

Based on the novel by James Alexander. In the Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1750's a tough young frontier women along with her two children and sister-in-law are captured by a Shawnee raiding party. They are marched hundreds of miles into the wilderness. Refusing to marry the head warrior, she is sold to a pair of French traders who make her a slave. Leaving her children behind, she makes a daring escape and near fatal trek through forests and rivers, eventually making her way back home. She and her husband are soon reunited with their children when the Indian brave returns them unharmed.