Betsy Zane, the rose of Fort Henry / Lynda Durrant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Durrant, Lynda, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Clarion Books (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zane, Betty--Juvenile fiction.

Zane, Betty.

Fort Henry (W. Va.)--Juvenile fiction.

Fort Henry (W. Va.).

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Juvenile fiction.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction

Juvenile works

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[10], 198 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Clarion Books, [2000]

Summary:

In 1781 twelve-year-old Elizabeth Zane, great-great-aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia, where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution. Thirteen-year-old Betsy Zane is bored with her privileged life in Philadelphia, bored with her great-aunt's stories about the old days, and bored with trying to be a lady. She longs to rejoin her brothers at the family homestead along the Ohio River, where she can finally be free to enjoy the unspoiled countryside that she has missed ever since she was forced to leave it as a child. When her great-aunt dies, Betsy has the opportunity to return to her frontier home. She frees the house slaves, bundles up the few belongings she can carry, and sets off to find safe passage to the homestead she has dreamed about for so long. At Zane Station she finds much excitement--and some tough choices. Her new life forces her to think more deeply about slavery, loyalty, and family. Betsy begins a romance with a dashing young soldier, and takes part in the greatest adventure of her life, a heroic run for gunpowder--a historical event--that saves Fort Henry in what proved to be the final battle of the Revolutionary War. Based on the true story of Betsy Zane, this exciting account of a real-life heroine's adventures on the western frontier is rich with vivid and carefully researched historical detail. Author's note, bibliography.

Contents:

August, 1781

Escape

Secrets

Buffalo roads

Ohio

Zanes

Myeerah

Juledag

Lost in the Hay

War

Colonels

Vengeance

Apron

October Roses

Afterword

Sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198).

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0395978998

9780395978993

OCLC:

44089513