The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Chick mentions "Chicago" as a way to measure a long distance from Yoknapatawpha, as in "as far away away as Chicago" (14).

This is the local hardware store where people can buy, among other things, an axe (13). When Jefferson's hardware store first appears in the fictions, it is owned by a man named Earl. In later fictions, however, Faulkner identifies the owner as Isaac McCaslin, explaining in The Mansion that Earl runs the store for Ike.

A town meeting place at morning "mail-time" (12), when the people of Jefferson pick up their deliveries.

The narrator tells us that Mr. Buffaloe, the city electrician, drives his hand-made automobile out of his backyard and into the street and crosses the Square at the same time that Colonel Satoris's surrey is crossing it on the way home. Thus, the home and backyard must be relatively close to the town Square.

In the Choctaw language, "Oklahoma" means "red people." It was the land to which many of the Indians tribes were sent by the American government during the first half of the 19th century, including the Chickasaws who once lived in Yoknapatawpha. Chick's chronology is faulty when he says that "the last Chickasaw departed for Oklahoma in 1820" (11), but they were all gone before 1840.

Where Manfred de Spain is sent during the Spanish-American war "as a second lieutenant," and from which he came back to Yoknapatawpha with "a long scar . . ., which could have been left by the sabre or gun-rammer we naturally assumed some embattled Spaniard had hit him with, or by the axe which political tactics during the race for mayor claimed a sergeant in a dice game had hit him with" (11).

The "town power-plant which pumped the water and produced the electricity" (9), where Flem Snopes becomes the superintendent, generates electricity for the town by burning coal to heat water into steam.

Flem and Eula Snopes live in "a small rented house in a back street near the edge of town" (9). Behind it is it is a big ditch where Gowan hides "every afternoon for almost a week" watching to see if his Uncle Gavin is spying on Mrs. Snopes (55). The house itself has a "flimsy porch" or "gallery" on which Flem sits and keeps an eye on the water tank after resigning his post at the power plant (30, 31). Referred to as "Mrs.

Flem Snopes leads Ratliff and Henry Armstid to believe that this ruined formal garden at the Old Frenchman Place contains buried treasure.

Now "a plantation of barely accessible worn-out land containing the weed-choked ruins of a formal garden and the remains (what the neighbors had not pulled down plank by plank for firewood) of a columned colonial house" (283), "in the old time" the Old Frenchman place "had dominated and bequeathed its name to the whole section known as Frenchman's Bend, which the Varners now owned" (8). Will Varner gives to Flem Snopes as Eula's dowry. Believing in the myth of buried money in the garden, Ratliff swaps his share of his restaurant in town for the Frenchman Place.