Jenny Wiley: Frontier Heroine

First published in 1969, Dark Hills to Westward has been reprinted in softback!

First published in 1969, Dark Hills to Westward has been reprinted in softback!

Thomas and Jenny Wiley had pioneered land on Walker’s Creek in Bland County, Virginia. On October 1, 1789, while Thomas was away, a small band of Indians, seeking revenge for a recent defeat at the hands of white settlers, attacked the Wiley cabin and killed and scalped Jenny’s three older children and her brother. Jenny, seven months pregnant, was taken captive along with her baby son, Adam.

Then began a nightmare flight through the wilderness into the dark Kentucky hills to westward ~ Dark Hills to Westward: The Jenny Wiley Saga.

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