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- catalog abstract "Spirit of the Border is the second in Zane Grey's Ohio River Valley trilogy. The protagonist, frontier Indian fighter Lew Wetzel, and his opponent, border renegade Jim Girty, were historical figures who in 1777 clashed in the wilds of the western Virginia border. Wetzel takes as his partner Jonathan Zane, brother of Colonel Ebenezer Zane and Betty Zane, the heroine of the battle of Fort Henry. Together, Wetzel and Zane pursue a relentless war of attrition against Wyandotte, Shawnee, and Seneca Indians. Colonel Zane is opposed to them in his feeling that settlers and Indian fighters alike little know "the proud independence, the wisdom, the stainless chastity of honor" true of many members of the Indian nations. Wetzel's conflict with Jim Girty and his Indian renegades is centered on the Village of Peace, an enclave of Moravian missionaries and their Christian converts among the Indians. Girty and his allies fall upon these Christian Indians when they are at prayer in the chapel, and the resulting massacre finds only two boys escaping from the carnage. Wetzel and Zane pursue Girty, and there is a final confrontation at Beautiful Spring.".
- catalog contributor b9340328.
- catalog coverage "Fort Henry (W. Va.) Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Ohio River Valley Fiction.".
- catalog created "[1996]".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "[1996]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1996]".
- catalog description "Spirit of the Border is the second in Zane Grey's Ohio River Valley trilogy. The protagonist, frontier Indian fighter Lew Wetzel, and his opponent, border renegade Jim Girty, were historical figures who in 1777 clashed in the wilds of the western Virginia border. Wetzel takes as his partner Jonathan Zane, brother of Colonel Ebenezer Zane and Betty Zane, the heroine of the battle of Fort Henry. Together, Wetzel and Zane pursue a relentless war of attrition against Wyandotte, Shawnee, and Seneca Indians. Colonel Zane is opposed to them in his feeling that settlers and Indian fighters alike little know "the proud independence, the wisdom, the stainless chastity of honor" true of many members of the Indian nations.".
- catalog description "Wetzel's conflict with Jim Girty and his Indian renegades is centered on the Village of Peace, an enclave of Moravian missionaries and their Christian converts among the Indians. Girty and his allies fall upon these Christian Indians when they are at prayer in the chapel, and the resulting massacre finds only two boys escaping from the carnage. Wetzel and Zane pursue Girty, and there is a final confrontation at Beautiful Spring.".
- catalog extent "vi, 274 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0803270615 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Grey, Zane, 1872-1939. Zane Grey's new western series.".
- catalog isPartOf "Zane Grey's new western series".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "[1996]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,".
- catalog spatial "Fort Henry (W. Va.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Ohio River Valley Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.52 20".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Wars 1750-1815 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3513.R6545 S65 1996".
- catalog subject "Scouting (Reconnaissance) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Wetzel, Lewis, 1763-1808 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women pioneers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Zane, Betty Fiction.".
- catalog title "The spirit of the border : a romance of the early settlers in the Ohio Valley / Zane Grey ; illustrations by J. Watson Davis ; foreword to the Bison books editon by Loren Grey.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction, American.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Historical fiction, American.".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Western stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "Western stories.".
- catalog type "text".