The lost state of Franklin: America's first secession

Footstool of liberty's throne : hero-making versus historiography

Land of the Franks : the backcountry economy of upper east Tennessee

Acts of designing men : community, conflict, and control

Agreeable to a republican government : the rise of backcountry partisanship, 1784-1785

Strange spectacle of two empires : statesmanship, speculation, and the dimming fortunes of separatism

Where the fire of peace is always kept burning : land, diplomacy, and the tragedy of the Tennessee Valley's principal people

Death in all its various and frightful shapes : the last days of the state of Franklin

Vassals del Rey de España : the Franklin-Spanish conspiracy, 1786-1789

Rocked to death in the cradle of secession : the antebellum evolution of Franklin, 1783-1861

Epilogue: Finding Frankland : the legacy of separation in the twentieth century.