# Cornplanter — Betty Zane character guide

> Cornplanter in Betty Zane by Zane Grey.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0010-vii

## Snapshot

A Seneca war chief whose name alone quickens pulses at Fort Henry, he leads the British-allied parties that make the frontier a place of ambush and dread.

## Who they are

Cornplanter stands at the far edge of the settlers' world, the feared answer to every rumor of canoes on the river and tracks in the woods. Where Tarhe counsels and waits, Cornplanter strikes, and his reputation gives the novel its constant low hum of peril. He matters because he turns the fort's wooden walls from a curiosity of frontier engineering into a necessity—and because the settlers' survival will be measured against his skill.

## In the story

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/betty_zane_se/chapters/ix)

Seneca chief who captures Isaac; scornfully releases him to Myeerah, and is later described in a historical note as a leader of the Five Nations.

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