Route between Yoknapatawpha and Mississippi River (Location Key)

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Characters in "A Justice" and Absalom, Absalom! travel to and from New Orleans by way of the Mississippi River, after traveling overland between a steamboat landing on the river and Yoknapatawpha. When the Indians in the first text travel that route eastward around 1817, they travel by wagon and the trip takes "three days" (348). It's about four decades later when Bon and Henry travel westward along that route on horseback in Absalom!, presumably on a better road and in less than a day - from late on Christmas Eve through suppertime on Christmas Day, 1860 (267). Not long after this travelers would take the train.

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