The "Cumberland Gap" through which the three earliest white settlers in Jefferson travel into Tennessee is a narrow pass over the Cumberland Mountains near the intersection of the states of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee (202). It was a major route over the Appalachians for the pioneers who first inhabited the frontier southwest.
The "Cumberland Gap" through which the three earliest white settlers in Jefferson travel into Tennessee is a narrow pass over the Cumberland Mountains near the intersection of the states of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee (6). It was a major route over the Appalachians for the pioneers who first inhabited the frontier southwest. By the mid-20th century, the narrative notes that "long looping skeins of electric lines bring electric power from the Appalachian mountains" to modern Yoknapatawpha (194).
The city of Nashville was originally founded in 1779. It is three hundred miles away from the settlement that becomes Jefferson, and reached by traveling the Natchez Trace. In this story, set in the early 19th century, it seems that Nashville was the point of contact between the settlers and the larger world, including the federal government which pays "a special horseman" to carry the mail "every two weeks" from "the post office in Nashville" and which might have frowned on the loss of the lock of the "Nashville mail-pouch" (202, 204).
The city of Nashville was originally founded in 1779. It is three hundred miles away from the settlement that becomes Jefferson, and reached by traveling the Natchez Trace. In this story, set in the early 19th century, it seems that Nashville was the point of contact between the settlers and the larger world, including the federal government which pays "a special horseman" to carry the mail "every two weeks" from the "post office in Nashville" (8) and which might have frowned on the loss of the lock of the "Nashville mail-pouch" (6).
In Faulkner's landscapes a "bottom" is the low land that lies along a stream or river. The "swamp four miles away [from the settlement] known as Hurricane Bottoms" - the spot where the militia men capture the gang of outlaws - does not appear by that name elsewhere in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions (201). However, Hurricane Creek, occasionally called Harrykin Creek, flows through a number of those texts, where like the real Hurricane Creek in Lafayette County, it flows northward into the Tallahatchie River.
In Faulkner's fictions a "bottom" is the low land that lies along a stream or river. The "swamp four miles away [from the settlement] known as Hurricane Bottoms" - the spot where the militia men capture the gang of outlaws - does not appear by that name elsewhere in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions (5). However, Hurricane Creek, occasionally called Harrykin Creek, flows through a number of those texts, where like the real Hurricane Creek in Lafayette County, it flows northward into the Tallahatchie River.
The "Natchez Trace" (201) was a 440-mile trail through the wilderness originally created by Indians between Nashville, Tennessee, and Natchez, Mississippi. It linked three rivers - the Cumberland, the Tennessee and the Mississippi. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it served as a major overland route for traders and settlers. Historically, it passed through northeast Mississippi to the east of Oxford; in the story the settlement is located "about midway between" the Mississippi River to the west and "the Trace" to the east (201).
The "Natchez Trace" (4) was a 440-mile trail through the wilderness originally created by Indians between Nashville, Tennessee, and Natchez, Mississippi. It linked three rivers - the Cumberland, the Tennessee and the Mississippi. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it served as a major overland route for traders and settlers. Historically, it passed through northeast Mississippi to the east of Oxford.
In the Choctaw language, "Oklahoma" means "red people." The "Oklahoma territory" to the west of the Mississippi River was the land to which many tribes - including the Chickasaws who once lived in Yoknapatawpha - were sent by the American government during the 'Indian removals' of the first half of the 19th century (200).
In the Choctaw language, 'Oklahoma' means 'red people.' The Oklahoma territory to the west of the Mississippi River was the land to which many tribes - including the Chickasaws who once lived in Yoknapatawpha - were sent by the American government during the 'Indian removals' of the first half of the 19th century. One of the first three white settlers in Yoknapatawpha, the son of Doctor Habersham, marries a Chickasaw and "in the thirties [i.e. the 1830s] emigrates to Oklahoma with his wife's dispossessed people" (7).
