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Betty Zane

American frontier heroine
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Byname of:
Elizabeth Zane
Born:
c. 1766, probably Hardy county or Berkeley county, Virginia [now in West , U.S.]
Died:
c. 1831, Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.
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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, and Silas. In September 1782, according to legend, Zane had just returned from Philadelphia, where she had been attending school, when Wheeling was attacked by ...(100 of 302 words)

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