Although Flags in the Dust mentions the "mud and filth" in which soldiers lived and fought during the First World War (71), and in "Knight's Gambit" Gavin Stevens tells his nephew about the "four-year tunnel of blood and excrement and fear" in which the soldiers lived (242-43), the description of the war provided by the Subadar in "All the Dead Pilots" is the most graphic representation of trench warfare in the Yoknapatawpha fictions.
To display the events in "Race at Morning" we created an inset map with 15 separate Locations in the Mississippi Delta to which Ike McCaslin and the other hunters from Yoknapatawpha travel to find enough wilderness to hunt as they want to. Each of those Locations has its own entry in this index. But to put them, and the story, in a context, it's interesting to note that Faulkner himself often went hunting in the Delta with parties from Lafayette, the real Mississippi county where he lived and on which so much of Yoknapatawpha is based.
As Ned puts it, calling it "Possum," the "hamlet" of Parsham (162) is "where the railroad comes up from Jefferson and crosses the Memphis one where you changes [railroad] cars" (116). The place where travelers on the northbound train from Yoknapatawpha change for the westbound train to Memphis has appeared in earlier Faulkner fictions. In Sanctuary, for example, that happens at Holly Springs (a real town in north Mississippi).
To display the events in Chapters 8-13 of The Reivers we created 14 specific Parsham Locations; these have their own entries in this index. Parsham itself - or "Possum," as Ned calls it -- is an imaginary hamlet "where the railroad comes up from Jefferson and crosses the Memphis one where you changes [railroad] cars" (116).
The McEacherns live on a farm in a very rural area, but near a town with a courthouse. The novel doesn't give us a clear way to know where this area might be. It takes McEachern and Joe "all" of a day traveling in a "light buggy" to get there from Memphis (143), but the novel gives no definitive indication what direction they travel in.
To display the events in chapters 7-9 of Light in August - the years Joe Christmas spends with the McEacherns - we created an inset map with 15 different Locations. The novel doesn't give us a way to know for sure where the McEacherns' farm and the nearby town might be. It takes McEachern and Joe "all" of a day traveling in a "light buggy" to get there from Memphis (143), but the novel gives no clear indication what direction they travel in.
