I.O. Snopes' Pasture|Mule Barn (Location Key)

The "fenced pasture" or "sales stable-lot" where I.O. Snopes keeps the mules he sells has to be somewhere close to Jefferson ("Mule in the Yard," 252; The Town, 247). When I.O. drives the animals there from the train station, he passes near - sometimes too near - Mannie Hait's house. This location plays another role in the novel: "the lot behind I.O. Snopes' mule barn" is where Buddy McCallum takes Matt Levitt and Anse McCallum to fight it out after he bails them out of jail.