Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 09:38
Near one of the campsites occupied by the pursuers, Ringo finds the house in which Grumby and his men are hiding. Ringo "thought it was deserted, and then he said it looked too dark, too quiet" (103).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 09:33
Near one of the pursuers' campsites, Ringo finds a house in which Grumby and his men are hiding. Ringo "thought it was deserted, and then he said it looked too dark, too quiet" (103, 165).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 09:17
Ab Snopes lives "back in the hills" (99). Bayard describes his house as "just a cabin. I reckon there were a thousand of them just like it about our hills, with the same canted plow lying under a tree and the same bedraggled chickens roosting on the plow and the same gray twilight dissolving onto the gray shingles of the roof" (101).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 09:11
Ab Snopes lives "back in the hills" in "Vendee" and The Unvanquished (99, 159). Bayard describes his house as "just a cabin. I reckon there were a thousand of them just like it about our hills, with the same canted plow lying under a tree and the same bedraggled chickens roosting on the plow and the same gray twilight dissolving onto the gray shingles of the roof" (101, 162).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 09:10
Grenada is the name of a real Mississippi county and a city within it, located south-southwest of 'Yoknapatawpha.' After being told that Ab Snopes is going northeast, Uncle Buck concludes he's heading toward Grenada.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 09:05
In Flags in the Dust Grenada, a real county in Mississippi, is mentioned in a context defined by Colonel Sartoris' war-time heroics. In The Unvanquished it is mentioned in terms of Ab Snopes' war-time venality. In those cases the war is the Civil War. The context for the last reference, in The Mansion, is World War II. While getting a ride from Parchman Penitentiary, Mink Snopes is surprised to see a structure alongside the highway that "looks like - Parchman" (118). The trucker identifies it as a "P.O.W. camp" (118).
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sun, 2015-04-19 08:57
During the Civil War, Memphis was captured by the Union Army in June, 1862. As the closest city to Yoknapatawpha and a location of commerce and horsetrading, it is where Ab Snopes would go to sell back to the Yankees the mules that Granny and Ringo have stolen from them.
