Mary Draper Ingles, born in Philadelphia in 1732 and later living at Ingles Ferry, Virginia, was the first white bride married west of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1755, at Draper's Meadows, now Blacksburg, Virginia, she was captured by Indians and carried to Ohio. After escaping from her captors, she made her way home alone in winter, traveling some eight hundred miles through a trackless wilderness, guided only by the streams and subsisting on nuts and roots for forty days. Her ordeal was remembered as an extraordinary display of female heroism, courage, and endurance in frontier history.