Betty Zane

Betty Zane (born c. 1766, probably Hardy county or Berkeley county, Virginia [now in West Virginia, U.S.]—died c. 1831, Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.) was an American frontier heroine whose legend of valour in the face of attack by American Indians provided the subject of literary chronicle and fiction. Zane lived in her native Virginia (now part of West Virginia) in the town of Wheeling, which was founded in 1769 by her elder brothers Ebenezer, Jonathan,...