The house where Lucius Priest lives with his parents in The Reivers is "across the street" from his grandfather's place (54). He spends very little time there in the novel, and as the story-teller he mentions that a "filling station is there now" without any hint of sadness or nostalgia (66).
Jefferson gets its first automobile in about 1905, about the same time cars began appearing on the American landscape - and about halfway through the long history recorded by the Yoknawpatawpha fictions. The fictions don't register that event until the last four novels, but it's a sign of Faulkner's increased interest in the larger story of Yoknapatawpha in the last decade of his career that the event is mentioned in all four.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2015-09-30 16:56
The route from the Mississippi River landing to Doom's Plantation is covered by Herman Basket, Sam Fathers' "pappy," and Doom in "three days" (348) traveling by wagon. Since they camp "on the road at night" (348), it can be inferred that much (if not all) of the route is on roads.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Wed, 2015-09-30 16:50
A landing is a place on a river where a boat can dock to load or unload people and goods. This landing is where Doom disembarks after taking a steamboat up the Mississippi River from New Orleans.
