"The West" is mentioned by the narrative as one of the places to which the Confederate soldiers who are unwilling to surrender at Appomattox depart; it is ambiguously mentioned in the middle of two more specific western locations - "Texas, the West, New Mexico" - so it is uncertain what specific part of that "new land" the narrator is referring (204).
Alabama appears peripherally in the novel as the place where [Nathan Bedford] Forrest is fighting as the Civil War draws to a close (184) and the place where Popeye is "hanged for a murder he did not commit" (114). It figures more directly as the site of "the small hill farm" (185) about "a hundred miles" from Jefferson (203) that is owned by the family of the Confederate lieutenant with whom Cecilia Farmer falls in love. The narrative never takes us there, but does evoke the "churns and stoves and brooms and stacks of wood" of life on such a farm (203).
Mexico appears obliquely in the novel in the phrase "Maximilian of Mexico," whom the narrator uses as a point of reference to make exceptional the "dream" that a Missourian like Mark Twain or a man from Yoknapatawpha acquires from his culture, the idea of the frontier and freedom (205).
Missouri is mentioned in the novel in the context of Mark Twain, whose "Missouri dream" is comparable to "the Yoknapatawpha dream too" (205): both privilege the idea of freedom and the frontier (205).
Lake Louise is a resort area in the Canadian Rockies; Temple mentions it as one of the places where her family might go after their stay in California (44).
New York is mentioned four times in the novel: as a reference point for measuring how much more of the world the soldiers who went from Yoknapatawpha to serve overseas during World War II have seen (193); as the hometown of "young men from Brooklyn" who attend southern colleges on the G.I.
"Hawaii" figures in two different ways in the stories Faulkner is telling in the novel: in Act I of the drama, Temple tells Gavin that her family "may go on to Hawaii in the spring" (44); they don't, but by 1929 an average of about 22,000 tourists visited the islands annually. In the prose introduction to Act III, as part of the account of how the racial demographics of Yoknapatawpha change during the 20th century the narrator mentions "Pearl Harbor," by which he means the surprise Japanese attack on the U.S.
In his account of the role the nation's "mid-continent fluvial" rivers played in its historical development, Faulkner's narrator claims that Pittsburgh (on the Ohio River) and "Fort Bridger, Wyoming, were suburbs one to the other" (83) - connected by the various waterways that drained into the Mississippi River. In fact, however, Fort Bridger - a stopping point on the Oregon Trail - was on the far side of the Continental Divide; its water flowed to the Pacific, not the Gulf of Mexico.
