Pete Dykes

Franklin's Lost Gold Pete Dykes

Did pioneer leader John Sevier, Governor of the proposed state of Franklin. accept a gift of gold from a Spanish governor of to induce him to make his fledgling state a province of Spain? Efforts to gainr statehood were rejected, and the area was at last to become the new state of Tennessee. An ancestor of the author of a historical feature series for the local newspaper leads Pug Potterl to investigate facts concerning the area around Fall Branch, Tennessee, one of the settlements that existed in John Sevier's day, and search the abandoned zinc mines near there.