Women / Persons ~ P11040

Elizabeth Zane

Alternate Names:

Betty Zane
Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 19 July 1759 – 23 August 1823

Types:

Adventure, physical feat or survival
Heroine in war
Heroine of rescue
Role in revolution

Note: brave foray to get gunpowder in battle with Indians in West Va. 1 September 1782

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Biographies (7 Total)

A Race for Powder: Betty Zane Author: Grace Humphrey . Collection Title: The Story of the Elizabeths. 1924
Elizabeth Zane Author: Henry Clay Watson . Collection Title: Heroic Women of History: Comprising Some of the Most Remarkable Examples of Female Courage, Disinterestedness, Devotion, and Self-Sacrifice of Ancient and Modern Times. 1854
Elizabeth Zane Author: Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet . Collection Title: The Women of the American Revolution. 1848
Elizabeth Zane Author: John Frost . Collection Title: Heroic Women of the West: Comprising Thrilling Examples of Courage, Fortitude, Devotedness, and Self-Sacrifice, among the Pioneer Mothers of the Western Country. 1854
Elizabeth Zane, a Frontier Heroine Author: Henry Charles Moore . Collection Title: Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines. 1903
Heroine of Fort Henry Author: . Collection Title: Noble Deeds of American Women: With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent. 1851
On the Indian Trail Author: William Worthington Fowler . Collection Title: Woman on the American Frontier: A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the “Pioneer Mothers of the Republic”. . 1876