River Passage

Based on the true story of the ill-fated Donelson voyage of 1779-1780. The river journey to Fort Nashborough should have taken four weeks. But more than four months after departing Virginia, a ragtag group of survivors limped into Fort Nashborough with a harrowing tale. Their river voyage had taken them through the heart of hostile Indian Territory at the height of the Chickamauga Indian War. They'd faced repeated attacks over hundreds of miles, leaving some settlers dead, others wounded, and still others captured. They'd also faced near starvation, disease, frostbite and deadly rapids. Winner of the 2010 Best Fiction and Drama Award (Bengal Book Reviews). Considered so historically accurate by the Nashville Metropolitan Government Archives, the original manuscript has been entered into the Archives for future researchers and historians. Told through the eyes of 18-year-old Mary Neely, who journeyed with the Neely family on the Donelson expedition.