Parsham: Uncle Parsham's House in The Reivers (Location)

Uncle Parsham's family lives in "a dog-trot house" that is described as "paintless but quite sound and quite neat" (164). Lucius sleeps under "a bright perfectly clean harlequin-patched quilt" in the "lean-to" that serves as the bedroom for Parsham's grandson Lycurgus (164). Parsham's "stable" is also included in this location (170).

Parsham: Depot in The Reivers (Location)

The railroad depot in Parsham is at the intersection of the two railway lines - the east-west tracks between Memphis and Alabama and the north-south tracks that "went south to Jefferson" (162). In the vicinity of the depot are "a freight shed and a platform for cotton bales," and the "loading chute" down which the reivers lead their stolen horse (162).

Ozark Mountains in The Reivers (Location)

Located mainly in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, the Ozarks contain a number of resorts where, as Lucius puts it, "people" went for the "summer season" (189).

Cumberland Gap|Cumberland Mountains in The Reivers (Location)

Part of the Appalachians, the Cumberland Mountains are located mainly in Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia.

Iuka, Mississippi in The Reivers (Location)

Iuka was a resort town in the northeast corner of Mississippi, "not far away" from the fictional Yoknapatawpha (189).

Raleigh, Tennessee in The Reivers (Location)

In 1905 Raleigh, Tennessee, served the people of Memphis as a resort. It is no longer in existence as a separate town.

London in The Reivers (Location)

Lucius' narrative comparison of Parsham, Tennessee, to the capital of Great Britain - "in those days, unlike London, Parsham had no summer season" (189) - locates him in a much more cosmopolitan world than the rest of the story.

Parchman Penitentiary in The Reivers (Location)

The Mississippi "state penitentiary at Parchman" (140), better known as Parchman Farm, has been in existence since 1901. It is located in the state's Delta region.

Arkansas in The Reivers (Location)

Kiblett, the small town that Miss Corrie and Otis are from, does not really exist, so we are speculating on where in Arkansas Faulkner's imagination located it.

Kentucky in The Reivers (Location)

Paducah, the town in Kentucky where Vera is from, is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. It's just over 200 miles from Memphis.

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