Book cover for Betty Zane

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After the success of Zane Grey's first novel, "Betty Zane", first published in 1903, Grey gave up his dental practice in New York City to concentrate on writing the westerns that would make him as rich and famous as a movie star. But ancestral pride, not money, was the impetus for Betty Zane. It was based on family stories about his great-grandfather, Colonel Ebenezer Zane, who had defended Fort Henry during the American Revolution. West Virginians remember that the colonel's young daughter, Betty, saved the fort during a British-Indian onslaught in 1782 - the last battle of the Revolutionary...Read more
  • ISBN10 1604502681
  • ISBN13 9781604502688
  • Publish Date 15 August 2008 (first published 1 July 1978)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Phoenix Rider
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 200
  • Language English