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Bookwright's farm is "a half mile" from Varner's store, on one of the back roads of Frenchman's Bend (305).

There is no clear indication where in Frenchman's Bend Freeman lives, but Eck and Wall try to capture their horse on the "blind lane [at] Freeman's" that dead ends in a set of "eight-foot fences" (353).

Bookwright and Quick chase their horses to three miles west of this imaginary place, which may be in a different county. Burtsboro Old Town is not mentioned elsewhere in Faulkner - though Intruder in the Dust will include a reference to a 'Peddlers Field Old Town' - and there is town named Burtsboro in Mississippi.

The "negro who found the gun" that Mink Snopes tried to get rid of lives in a cabin a mile from Mink's place; it is described as "smaller and shabbier than" Mink's own "broken-backed cabin" (276, 80).

Texas is referred to at several different points in the novel. For example, during his years in the west Jack Houston works in West Texas, El Paso and Galveston; the latter two Locations have their own entries in the index. As in many other texts, Texas also appears as the place where people in Yoknapatawpha can go to run away from trouble. When Eula Varner gets pregnant, her three main suitors disappear; according to her father: "them damn tomcats are half way to Texas now" (160).

The unnamed farmer whose barn Ike Snopes raids for food lives on a "barren scrap of hill land" on which he managed to raise a large family (211). We have to speculate about its location; the only clue the text provides is that it is five miles from Houston's place (215).

Hoake McCarron grows up and lives on the farm which his mother inherited from her father, who was named Hoake. It is large enough to employ both "negro field hands" (149), which suggests cotton was raised there, and "drovers," men who take care the "cattle" that are raised or prepared for market there (150). All we know about its location is that it is "twelve miles from the village" of Frenchman's Bend (149).