The author is Zane Grey, and what do you think he is doing in this forum? Well, he wrote three books based on his familys early life in the Ohio river valley. The books were based on the true exploits of his family in the last years of the Americian revolution and depict, among other things, the weapons of the revolution along with the use made of them.
Three people stand out in each of these books, and each of them lived a real and dangerious life. In turn they are, Elizabeth "Betty" Zane; Lewis Wetzel; and Jonathan Zane.
From the first to the last, the books are:
"Betty Zane."
The story of a remarkable young women who ran a gauntlent of fire to bring gunpowder to the people of Fort Henry during the seige of Sept 11, 1782.
"Spirit Of The Border."
After the war, there remained the renegade, the worst of which were Simon and Jim Girty. To stop them and to save the settlers, there were only the Borderman. Veterans of the indian war, they were as deadly as any of the enemies, either white or Indian, they faced and no one, red or white was as deadly as the man the Indians called "Deathwind".
"The Last Trail."
Johathan Zane is now the companion of Lewis Wetzel. Together they will take the 'Last Trail' to rid the frontierof the last remaining outlaws.
I think that these are the best that Zane Grey ever wrote, mainly because he was writing about real people from the stories he learnt at his grand mothers knee.
