Starkville, Mississippi in "The Tall Men" (Location)

After the McCallum family decides to stop growing cotton, Buddy McCallum's twin sons "went off a year to the agricultural college to learn right about whiteface cattle" (57). The story gives no further details about this location, but since Mississippi State University has a College of Agriculture, we use its hometown, Starkville, as a way to put a spot on our map.