Faulkner's last novel, The Reivers, includes this large and prosperous estate. It's owned by Colonel Linscomb, but still known as the "old Parsham place" after the previous owner who gave the town and some of the area's Negro residents their name (274). Lucius calls it a "plantation," and except for the fact that the people who work on it are "tenants" rather than slaves, it is laid out as an antebellum plantation: "big neat fields of sprouting cotton and corn, and pastures with good fences and tenant cabins and cotton houses" (218).
The "spring branch in a hollow" where the "reivers" keep their horse between races in The Reivers is "not half a quarter [mile] from the track," on land owned by a local Negro (217). A "grove of beeches" around the spring provides shade (218).
The hotel at Parsham in The Reivers is a "big rambling multigalleried multistoried steamboat-gothic" place (163). Miss Reba, fresh from Memphis, calls it a "dump" (204), but it is elegant enough to include a "ladies parlor," as all good hotels did in what Lucius calls "those days" (189). During the winter, when hunters and dog-fanciers descend on Parsham for "the quail season and the Grand National Trials," the "vast rambling hotel" is "booming," full "staffed and elegant" (190).
In The Reivers 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). A "dog-trot" house - really, a cabin - consists of two rooms, separated by a roofed but otherwise open breezeway; this form of housing was widespread across the impoverished rural South.
In The Reivers 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).
Located mainly in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, the Ozarks contain a number of resorts where, as Lucius puts it in The Reivers, "people" could go for the "summer season" (189).
Iuka was a resort town in the northeast corner of Mississippi - about a hundred miles away from the real town of Oxford and, according to The Reivers, "not far away" from the fictional Yoknapatawpha (189).
In 1905, when The Reivers takes place, the town of Raleigh, Tennessee, served the people of Memphis as a resort. It is no longer in existence as a separate town, having been incorporated into the city half a dozen years after the novel takes place.
Court Square in Memphis, where in The Reivers Otis walks every day to the "fruit and peanut stand" run by "that I-talian" (139), was one of the four original parks laid out by the men who designed the city in 1819. According to The Mansion, in which Mink Snopes tries to sleep on a bench in the park, it is located amid "the tall buildings" of the city (316).
