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          The high degree of resolution and courage among frontier womanhood was exemplified by Betty Zane, a dark-haired and dark-eyed beauty who single-handedly saved Fort Henry in the upper Ohio River Valley from annihilation in a brave dash through hostile Indians to bring gunpowder from her brother's cabin.  Fort Henry was a parallelogram, 356 feet long and 150 feet wide, on a hillside overlooking the Ohio River, standing at what is now Tenth and Main streets in Wheeling, surrounded by a stockade fence twelve feet high, and having a three-foot walkway running around the inside.

    It was practically impregnable so long as supplies lasted.

          During the second siege, called the last battle of the Revolution, the commander, Col. David Shepherd, found his powder supply exhausted.

    The nearest source was more than a hundred yards away in the cabin of