Idaho (Location Key)

When talking with his nephew in "Knight's Gambit" about the experience that the veterans of foreign wars have had, Gavin Stevens compares John Doe of Jefferson, Mississippi, to "Charley Longfeather of Shoshone, Idaho" - using the Western location to represent one of America's communities of color (243). In the same passage he locates a hypothetical Italian in New Jersey and a man named Harry Wong in San Francisco. Stevens' point is that what these veterans have gone through is a universal human experience, but he still maps the U.S. through the lens of race and ethnicity. There were of course Indians like Charley in New Jersey and Chinese-Americans in Mississippi and so on.