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Okatoba County: The
county directly south of Yoknapatawpha
County, whose county seat is Mottstown,
based on the real Yalobusha County, Mississippi, which is south of the
western half of Lafayette County (the principal model for Yoknapatawpha
County). Apparently, Okatoba County at one time enveloped all or part of
what was later Yoknapatawpha County. It is referred to in Intruder
in the Dust and "Hand
Upon the Waters" (in Knight’s Gambit).
According to the "appendix"
to The Sound and the Fury, in 1860 "Okatoba"
was still called "Old Jefferson."
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Old Ben: A large,
old, two-toed bear which had eluded hunters for years at Major
de Spain's hunting grounds along the Tallahatchie
River in northern Yoknapatawpha
County. When he was finally killed, by Boon
Hogganbeck in 1883, fifty-two old bullets were found embedded in his
skin. He is a potent symbol of the vanishing wilderness in "The
Bear" section of Go Down, Moses.
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Old
Frenchman's Place, The: The name given to the plantation originally
established by Louis Grenier in
southeastern Yoknapatawpha County,
in the area later known as Frenchman's
Bend. According to The Hamlet, it
originally consisted of an enormous house (featuring oak floors, walnut
newel posts and stair spindles), stables, slave quarters, and gardens, and
local legend held that Grenier had buried his money somewhere on the
property when General Grant
crossed through the area during his Vicksburg
campaign during the Civil War. The place was acquired by Will
Varner sometime in the late nineteenth century. He gave it to Flem
Snopes as a wedding gift, and Flem tricked Odum
Bookwright, Henry Armstid,
and V. K. Ratliff into buying the place
by burying silver dollars in the garden. In 1930 Lee
Goodwin was living there making bootleg whiskey. The place is the
setting for parts of The Hamlet and Sanctuary
and is referred to frequently elsewhere.
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Ord, Mrs.:
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Ord, Matt:
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Oscar:
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Otis:
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Ott, Jimmy:
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Owl-by-Night: A
young Indian who, like Sylvester's
John, was interested in Herman
Basket's sister until
Ikkemotubbe expressed an interest
in her in "A Courtship."
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Oxford: An actual
city in north-central Mississippi, about seventy-five miles south-southeast
of Memphis, Tennessee, the county seat
of Lafayette County and home
of the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss"). Oxford also happens
to be the home, for most of his life, of William Faulkner. The city is the
most obvious real-life model for his fictional town of Jefferson,
seat of Yoknapatawpha County; in
the fictional realm, however, Oxford is about forty miles away from
Jefferson in an unspecified direction. Oxford appears in its own right in
several of Faulkner’s works, generally as the location of Ole Miss, most
notably in Sanctuary and Absalom,
Absalom!.
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