Big Oat Field by Varner's Pasture (Location Key)

In both "By the People" and The Mansion V.K. Ratliff invites Gavin Stevens to come hunt geese in the "big oat field in the bend below Uncle Billy's pasture" (139, 352). Oats are an atypical crop in Yoknapatawpha, where cotton is grown for money and corn to feed livestock and make whiskey, but no other details are provided, not even what "bend" is referred to. It is most likely a bend in a road or a river, but if it were the bend from which Frenchman's Bend derives its name, presumably the word would be capitalized. However, the field is undoubtedly in the Frenchman's Bend region, since it belongs to "Uncle Billy" Varner.