The Reivers , 17 (Event)

Lucius provides a brief description of Boon's character, including a summary of his place within the racial and familial patterns of Yoknapatawpha. Our dating here is based on interpretation and speculation: the passage itself includes the marriage of Boon's Chickasaw grandmother to his white grandfather, which must have occurred before the end of the 1830s, and an elliptical reference to the first "nine or ten or eleven years" of Boon's life, which probably occurred during the 1860s and '70s. The passage also briefly mentions Ike McCaslin's renunciation of the McCaslin plantation, which (in Go Down, Moses) probably occurs around 1890. And the locations of this compound event include the Chickasaw plantation, the hunting camp, the McCaslin-Edmonds place, and the various places in Yoknapatawpha where Boon gets drunk.