Betty Zane was an interesting look at life for early settlers in what is now West Virginia in the time of the Revolutionary War. Betty Zane was an ancestor to Zane Grey and he took a diary provided to him by a family member to construct this novel. There are two more books featuring Betty, but I dou

The writing seems a little stiff at first but this ultimately figures into the charm of the tale. I really enjoyed these hardy characters and the matter-of-fact way they go about life and death, the very serious and silly ways they battle courtship and love. There is a uniqueness to the frontier tal

My dad encouraged me to read this book back when I was eight. "Betty Zane" was the first book I checked out from the Adult Section of the Westlake Branch of the Daly City Public Library and I needed Dad's permission.

Many years--and the Internet--later, I re-read the story of Betty and her race to sa

I thoroughly enjoyed this action packed book about Betty Zane. This is loosely based on actual events, and it is written extremely well, as are all of Zane's books. Each of his books is a learning experience for me. The strong characters inspire me to emulate them in many cases.

No political correctness here. It makes you appreciate how far we have come as a society in respecting and appreciating other races and cultures. The story is interesting, but the style of writing is very dramatic and romantic. Also, the story, at least the love-interest part, is historically inaccu

Fun! Mindless and easy frontier novel. Grey's characters are perfectly, hilariously, chaste and sexless. Of course all of the settlers have a fine eye, broad chest, and a stout heart. The villains are hard to miss (dirty, dark-minded).

What I found most interesting is that Zane Grey, a descendant, c