Spot where Old Ben Crosses the Tallahatchie River (Location Key)

This marks the spot where the hunt for Old Ben crosses the river in both "Lion" and Go Down, Moses. In the short story Ad and Boon swim across it in pursuit, but because the only boat the hunters have is "just a [two-person] duck boat" (194), most of the other men turn back to camp. In the novel "that damn boat!" is on the other side of the river, so Ike and Boon swim across on the mule, and Lion brings Old Ben to bay "against a tree" on the top of the bank on the other side of the river from the ridge (227).