Unnamed Railroad Brakeman

The brakeman on the logging train serving Hoke's lumber mill discusses with Boon the competitive merits and abilities of the dog, Lion, and the bear, Old Ben, as though the two were rivals for the boxing championship.

Unnamed Train Conductor

This conductor on the logging line train listens to Boon's stories of Lion and Old Ben. He, Boon and the train's brakeman discuss the pair of animals as though they are distinguished rival prize fighters.

Unnamed Aztec Chiefs

Quentin invokes the mystical powers of nameless Aztec chiefs in pre-Columbian Mexico (who were looked upon as being "both more and less than men," 186) to show how Lion ruled the other dogs in the hunting camp. Lion's rule over these present dogs is absolute and unquestioned.

Unnamed Negro Boon Shoots

There was bad blood between Boon Hogganbeck and this unnamed man; the narrator's only description of him is very ambiguous: "They said he was a bad nigger, but I don't know" (189). "They" are not identified, nor is the ground of the quarrel between him and Boon. The quarrel ends up in a shoot-out, in which the Negro's "dollar-and-a-half mail order pistol" misfires and Boon kills him after missing him with his first four shots (189).

Other Hunters

This icon refers to four sets of men: 1) the members of the hunting party who are not specifically named; 2) the narrator's generic hunters who "love" hunting dogs (184); 3) the "other people" - men from nearby but not necessarily among the annual hunting party featured in the story - who killed "deer and bear" on the land owned by Major de Spain, "on Major de Spain's courtesy" (186); and 4) the men from Jefferson who arrive at the hunt annually for the last day, the day set aside for "driving" Old Ben (189).

Chickasaw Chief

This unnamed chief "once owned the land which Major de Spain now owned and over which we hunted" (184).

New Orleans in "Race at Morning" (Location)

At one point the narrator facetiously imagines that the buck they are chasing is planning to travel all the way "to Vicksburg or New Orleans" (302).

Vicksburg, Mississippi in "Race at Morning" (Location)

At one point the narrator facetiously imagines that the buck they are chasing is planning to travel all the way "to Vicksburg or New Orleans" (302). Later in the story, "Vicksburg" turns out to have a darker meaning for him, when he mentions that two years ago his mother "went off with the Vicksburg roadhouse feller" - and the next day his father "didn't come home neither" (307).

Alabama in "Race at Morning" (Location)

At one point during the long chase, when the narrator hears the dog's in the distance to the east, he facetiously speculates that the buck may have "decided to have a look at Alabama" (302).

Courthouse and Square in "Race at Morning" (Location)

Although all the events in this story take place outside Yoknapatawpha, except for the narrator and Mister Ernest the hunters are all from here, and the county is mentioned by name once (308).

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