As explained in Gavin Stevens' reconstruction of the murder, Crawford Gowrie got Lucas to fire his pistol by meeting him at "a stump beside the path" between Lucas' house and Fraser's store, two miles from both places, and then betting him that he couldn't hit the stump from fifteen feet away (221).
An area in Yoknapatawpha. When word reaches Jefferson about Vinson Gowrie's death, the sheriff is not there because he has gone "down into the opposite corner of the county" (27). We are assuming that this is the same as the place Gavin Stevens refers to later that day, when he says he phoned the sheriff "down at Peddlers Field Old Town" (34). This intriguing name is all readers learn about the place, which is in the part of Yoknapatawpha least visited by Faulkner's imagination.
"Pa's farm," as Chick calls it, is far enough from the Mallison house in town that the family has to hire a car to drive to it (69). Mr. Mallison is not a farmer, and hasn't even been out to the farm for at least several months (70), but in several of the Yoknapatawpha fictions there are similar references to working farms owned by older upper class Yoknapatawpha families who live in town.
Will Legate appears in four different fictions, but Intruder in the Dust is the only one that mentions this "small farm" where he lives; it's "two miles from town," but we have to speculate about in which direction (50).
As explained in Gavin Stevens' reconstruction of the murder in Intruder in the Dust, Crawford Gowrie got Lucas to fire his pistol by meeting him at "a stump beside the path" between Lucas' house and Fraser's store, two miles from both places, and then betting him that he couldn't hit the stump from fifteen feet away (221).
This place in Yoknapatawpha is mentioned in Intruder in the Dust and no where else - though The Hamlet includes a brief mention of a 'Burtsboro Old Town,' which has a separate entry in this index. When word reaches Jefferson about Vinson Gowrie's death, the sheriff is not there because he has gone "down into the opposite corner of the county" (27). We are assuming that this is the same as the place Gavin Stevens refers to later that day, when he says he phoned the sheriff "down at Peddlers Field Old Town" (34).
"Pa's farm," as Chick calls it in Intruder in the Dust, is far enough from the Mallison house in town that the family has to hire a car to drive to it (69). Mr. Mallison is not a farmer, and hasn't even been out to the farm for at least several months (70), but in several of the Yoknapatawpha fictions there are similar references to working farms owned by older upper class Yoknapatawpha families who live in town.
Though we include it on our main map, Mottstown is in fact the seat of the county just south of Yoknapatawpha. (In this novel we learn for the first time that the name of that county is Mott, and that the counties to the west and east of Yoknapatawpha are named, respectively, Okatoba and Crossman, 184.) Mottstown - or as Faulkner sometimes spells it, Mottson - appears in many of the Yoknapatawpha fictions.
After the sheriff and his party find the two bodies hidden in the Nine-Mile Branch, they phone town and borrow a truck from a "deserted" house two miles away (176). There is no indication whose house this is or why it is (temporarily) deserted.
