Betty Zane

Name: Betty Zane
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by Zane Grey Book 1 in the Ohio River Trilogy series.

First published 1903

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On the upper Ohio frontier, the Zane family helps establish and defend the settlement around Fort Henry at present-day Wheeling. Their lives are shaped by isolation, raids and the uncertain authority of a community standing at the edge of colonial and Revolutionary-era expansion.

Betty Zane grows from a young woman within that household into the figure remembered for carrying gunpowder to the fort during a desperate attack. Grey combines the defence of Fort Henry with family rivalries, courtship and frontier violence, using Betty’s story to portray the risks faced by settlers in a region contested during and immediately after the American Revolution.