Bayou in Big Woods

In "The Bear" and Go Down, Moses stands a "big gum tree" beside this "little bayou whose black still water crept without motion out of a cane-brake, across a small clearing and into the cane again" (285, 191). The spot is some distance beyond the log where The Bear's footprint was first seen, and it serves as a demarcation point between two parts of the wilderness: the hunting grounds that the boy|Ike McCaslin already knows and the "new and alien country" (289, 196) that lies beyond, where he will see the bear.

Overturned Log in "The Bear"|Go Down, Moses in "The Bear" (Location)

An "overturned" (284) or "gutted" (287) log some distance from the main hunting grounds next to which the boy sees the bear’s “crooked print” (287).

Site of The Bear's Footprint

The unnamed boy (in "The Bear") and Ike McCaslin (in Go Down, Moses) both see the "crooked print" of "the enormous warped two-toed foot" that belongs to Old Ben at this spot (284, 197): beside a "rotted overturned log" in the woods some distance from the main hunting grounds.

Ambush Site in "The Bear"|Go Down, Moses in "The Bear" (Location)

This is the spot beside a trail in the wilderness where the boy and Sam Fathers wait to encounter the bear; when the fyce actually bays the bear against "the trunk of a tree," the boy has to rush in and save the little dog (292).

"Retreat", 34 (Event)

"Retreat", 34 (Event)

Unnamed Union Officer(2)

He leads the unit that almost captures Sartoris at his plantation.

"Retreat", 33 (Event)

"Retreat", 32 (Event)

"Retreat", 32 (Event)

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