When Ratliff first met Ab Snopes, they were living on tenant farms a mile apart on Old Man Anse Holland's property. Ab's place is fourteen miles from Jefferson, and to get to town he has to travel up a number of hills and through the hamlet of Whiteleaf (cf. 35); the spot on the map we locate the farm is based on those cues, but ultimately we are speculating. (In "Fool about a Horse," the tenant family who live on this farm are unnamed - but they are not Snopeses.)
This is one of the several pieces of un-real estate in Yoknapatawpha that Faulkner moves around to fit the needs of different stories. In "Fool about a Horse," the unnamed family of the narrator lives in Frenchman's Bend, on a farm at some distance beyond Varner's store.
Next to Mrs. Littlejohn's hotel is the "livery barn and lot" where her residents can board their horses and mules (31), and where the spotted ponies are auctioned off.
Faulkner describes the Frenchman's Bend tenant farm where Mink Snopes lives with his family in some detail in both The Hamlet and The Mansion. In the first novel he also uses it to represent the many other tenant farms where Mink has lived and worked over the years. For instance, the novel refers to him seeing his children "across whatever sorry field or patch" he happens to be farming and sitting on "whatever rented porch" resting from his labor (264). The farm he's sharecropping when he kills Houston is described similarly in both texts.
