WV-036 Border Heroine


Marker text: BORDER HEROINE

Frontier narratives record many hostilities between settlers and Native Americans. One account states Mrs. Bozarth, in a hand-to-hand fight, armed with axe only, killed three men during a 1779 attack on her cabin at the Dunkard Creek settlement.

West Virginia Celebration 2000
West Virginia Division of Archives and History, 2004

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