There is a "creek ford a half mile away" from the Varner house, where Eula's suitors often go to try to settle the competition for her by fighting each other, "silently and savagely" (146). Later those suitors join forces to attack McCarron at the same spot. The narrator mentions that "there is a house near the ford" (153).
All three novels in the Snopes trilogy mention the "bushwhacking thicket" where Eula Varner's local suitors fight each other or the various outsiders who come to Frenchman's Bend to court her and, climactically, where they try to ambush and drive away Hoke McCarron, who fights them off with Eula's help. In The Hamlet, the spot is near a "creek ford a half mile away" from the Varner house (153); in The Mansion, it's next to "the creek bridge" (136).
The scene where "Colonel's boy Bayard and Uncle Buck McCaslin and a nigger" (Ringo) catch up with Ab Snopes "in the woods" and punish him for betraying Rosa Millard is depicted in The Unvanquished, though there is no suggestion there that "a heated ramrod" was involved (32). We locate this event in the same place where the editors of the earlier text speculated it might be.
The first shot of the American Civil War was fired by secessionists against the garrison at Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor on 12 April 1861. This is "the news of Sumter" that was carried to the Old Frenchman's place when it was a prosperous plantation (373).
In The Hamlet, Ratliff lives with his sister in a house somewhere in Jefferson. In The Mansion, however, it appears that his bachelordom is inviolable apart from the occasional dinners he prepares for Gavin Stevens and Chick Mallison. Whereas there are virtually no details about the house in the earlier novel, in this novel Faulkner provides a rich description of its interior layout and governing aesthetics.
The "south Mississippi convict camp" (244) where Mink Snopes met the woman who became his wife is "a tract of wildcatted virgin timber" being logged (262). The convict labor system was widespread in the South, and in some ways perpetuated the system of slavery. As the novel's narrator puts it, the white man who runs the camp "through political influence or bribery or whatever got his convict labor from the State for the price of their board and keep" (262); the prisoners themselves were not compensated for their work.
