"Rainey, Paul (Reivers 166,194): a wealthy sportsman who, in 1898, bought an 11,000-acre tract at Cotton Plant, Miss. (35 m. NE of Oxford) and stocked it with game, including wolves and bears, as a hunting preserve. Later, he spent six years in Kenya, riding to hounds in pursuit of lions, with devastating sucess (see Daniel P. Mannix, "The Playboy Lion Killer," True: The Men's Magazine, October 1957, pp.69-70, 108-12). The reference to Rainey as "just a few miles down Colonel Sartoris's railroad toward Jefferson" (Reivers p. 194) show Faulkner's characteristic merging of his great-grandfather's railroad through New Albany with the Illinois Central railroad through Oxford (Jefferson). The point of view here is from Parsham (Grand Junction, TN). Cotton Plant and Rainey were actually on Col. Faulkner's railroad between Ripley and New Albany, MS; that railroad did not come to Grand Junction, but to Middleton, TN., a few miles to the east. The Illinois Central main line (at that time) ran from Grand Junction through Oxford, but did not come within 30 m. of Cotton Plant."
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