Memphis in Flags in the Dust (Location)

Founded in 1819, Memphis, Tennessee, had over 162,000 residents in 1920, making it the closest big city to Yoknapatawpha. It was originally made prosperous as a riverboat town from which much of the South shipped its cotton and timber, and - as many of the Yoknapatawpha fictions reveal - the place where people from Jefferson went to misbehave. In this novel, young Bayard buys his car there, and Jenny takes old Bayard there to see a specialist.