"Indians had owned it" (90) - this refers specifically to Houston's land, but historically the Chickasaw Indians occupied most of the land in what became northern Mississippi (including the area in which Faulkner locates Yoknapatawpha). Under the Presidency of Andrew Jackson they were "removed" beyond the Mississippi RIver, and most of the tribe was gone from Mississippi by the mid-1830s.
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Fri, 2017-08-04 16:40
The only child of Wesley Pritchel, Ellie is a "dim-witted spinster of almost forty" (113) when she marries Joel Flint. After their marriage, she farms and raises chickens in a small house built on the Pritchel farm for approximately two years until she is murdered by her husband.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Sat, 2017-07-08 10:58
Flem Snopes grew up in a family of sharecroppers who repeatedly moved from one "worn-out tenant farm" to another (275). According to "Barn Burning," in his young life Flem's younger brother Sarty has lived at "a dozen" of them. The farms that are specifically mentioned in various texts are owned by De Spain ("Barn Burning"), Anse Hollard (The Hamlet) and Will Varner (the Snopes trilogy) - these are all in Yoknapatawpha. Our map uses the location we assign the farm at the beginning of "Barn Burning," which is owned by a landlord named Harris; it's in Grenier County.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Fri, 2017-07-07 17:39
Chick Mallison goes to shoot quail at a place he refers to only as "Sartoris" (254). This is the large plantation that John Sartoris built during the antebellum period and then rebuilt after it was burned by Yankee soldiers during the Civil War; it appears in many of the Yoknapatawpha fictions.
Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Fri, 2017-07-07 17:24
The text does not say who Mr. Spilmer is, but the "ravine ditch behind Mr. Spilmer's house" is presumably close enough to Mrs. Hait's property (264) for her to walk there with the mule.
