Betty Zane

Fort Henry is besieged by British rangers and Shawnee Indians, and this small group of settlers must make their valiant stand in one of the last battles of the American Revolution. Their only hope is heroic Betty Zane, who must run the gauntlet to retrieve the last keg of gunpowder--and save the fort.

Inspired by the life and adventures of his own great-great grandmother, "Betty Zane" was Zane Grey's first novel and launched his career as a master writer of rousing frontier and Western adventures.
"Betty Zane" is the story of the events culminating in the last battle of the American Revolution, when two hundred Redcoats from British-controlled Detroit along with four hundred Shawnee Indian attacked the small, wood-palisaded Ford Henry on the western frontier. The heroine of the battle--a young, spunky, and beautiful frontier girl--was "Betty Zane"