Ambush Site in Big Woods (Location Key)

This is the spot somewhere in the wilderness hunting ground in northwest Yoknapatawpha where in "The Bear" the boy hunter and Sam Fathers encounter the bear on a day in June, and the boy's little fyce dog actually bays the bear against "the trunk of a tree" (292). When this event is described again in Go Down, Moses, the boy is Ike McCaslin and the tree is a "big cypress" (200). In both cases the lesson the young hunter learns from Sam, the bear and the dog about "humility and pride" is the same (294, 281).