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**TAUNTON ROAD
In the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger,
GALLOWS HILL is located on the Taunton Road. Taunton Road replaces the FARSON ROAD.
TAVARES
Tavares was a town located up the coast from HAMBRY. One of its bars (GLENCOVE) had a female bartender who eventually died of the pox. In
Wind Through the Keyhole,
we learn that Tavares was located forty wheels east of the ENDLESS FOREST. Tales of BIG JACK ROSS’s death-by-dragon reached there quickly. The gunslinger posse that eventually accepted TIM ROSS as one of their own was headed for Taveres. IV:382, W:160, W:171, W:172, W:264, W:268, W:268
TEJUAS
Tejuas is an unincorporated township located two hundred miles west of ELURIA. The NORMAN brothers were headed here when their caravan was attacked by the GREEN FOLK.
E:178, E:193
TEMPA
See
BORDERLANDS
: CALLA BRYN STURGIS: MANNI CALLA
TEPACHI, BARONY OF
People from Tepachi have an accent similar to that of the people in the nearby Barony of MEJIS.
IV:269
TERRITORIES
The Territories are mentioned by CALVIN TOWER in
The Waste Lands
as he sells JAKE CHAMBERS both
Charlie the Choo-Choo
and
Riddle-De-Dum!
“Consider it my gift to a boy wise enough to saddle up and light out for the territories on the last real day of spring.” The Territories, which are a parallel world to our Earth, are found in
The Talisman
, and in
Black House
, novels cowritten by STEPHEN KING and Peter Straub. Every human being in our world has a “twinner” in the territories.
III:116
THINNIES
See
THINNY,
in
PORTALS
THOUGHTFUL HOUSE
See
ELURIA
THUNDERCLAP
See entry in
PORTALS
TIMBERSMITH FARM
TOM’S NECK
See
RIVER BARONY
TOOK’S GENERAL STORE
See
BORDERLANDS
: CALLA BRYN STURGIS
TOOK’S OUTLAND MERCANTILE
See
BEAM ROAD
TOPEKA
See
KANSAS
: TOPEKA,
in
OUR WORLD PLACES
TOWER
See
DARK TOWER
,
in
PORTALS
TOWN COMMON
See
BORDERLANDS
: CALLA BRYN STURGIS
TOWN GATHERING HALL
See
BORDERLANDS
: CALLA BRYN STURGIS;
see also
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY
TRAVELERS’ REST/TRAVELLERS’ REST
See
BORDERLANDS
: CALLA BRYN STURGIS;
see also
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY
TREE RIVER
TREE SAWMILL
TREE VILLAGE
**TULL
The sand-colored, pitted buildings of Tull are located south of PRICETOWN and just north of the MOHAINE DESERT. The town consists of four roads—the COACH ROAD and the three that cross it. Since Tull is located on the line of the Coach Road, we can assume that it was once more prosperous. Now it consists of a boarded-up grocery, a livery, a tailor, a church, a barber, a dry goods emporium, and a bar called SHEB’S.
Like so many of MID-WORLD’s towns, Tull—located on the floor of a circular, bowl-shaped hollow—is reminiscent of the Old West. It is in Tull that Roland meets his lover ALICE. It is also where he meets the formidable (and dangerously crazy) SYLVIA PITTSTON. Thanks to Pittston’s treachery, Roland ends up killing everyone in the town, including Allie. In the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger,
we find out that there’s an old train yard near Tull.
I:15, I:18–19, I:20–21, I:22–64, I:77, I:78, I:86, I:90, I:118, I:124, I:131, I:143, I:156, II:40, II:126, II:145, III:42, III:44, IV:72, IV:628, V:253, VI:283, VI:284, VI:288
SHEB’S:
Sheb’s is Tull’s single honky-tonk. Despite its name, it actually belongs to ALICE. Within its bat-wing doors it has a sawdust floor, spittoons, and tipsy-legged tables. The bar is a plank resting on sawhorses. At the back people play interminable games of Watch Me while SHEB bangs away on his piano. I:22, I:23, I:26–43, I:45–47, I:52–54, I:58, I:61, I:63, I:64, II:40, II:126, II:145, II:264
TURTLE, STREET OF THE
See
RIVER BARONY
: LUD
UNFOUND DOOR
See
DOORWAY CAVE
,
in
PORTALS
UNFOUND DOOR (PATH TO THE)
See
BORDERLANDS
: CALLA BRYN STURGIS: ARROYO COUNTRY
VI CASTIS CUT
See
RITZY
VI CASTIS MOUNTAINS
See
RITZY
WASTE LANDS
See
WASTE LANDS
,
CALLA BADLANDS
,
and
DISCORDIA
,
all in
PORTALS
WAY STATION
See entry in
PORTALS
WAYDON
WEST RIVER BARONY
See
RIVER BARONY
WEST-TOWN
See
NEW CANAAN, BARONY OF
: GILEAD
WEST WOODS
WESTERN LINE
WESTERN PLAINS
See
BORDERLANDS
**WESTERN SEA AND LOBSTROSITY BEACH
Throughout
The Gunslinger,
Roland pursues the MAN IN BLACK south and then southwest through the MOHAINE DESERT and the CYCLOPEAN MOUNTAINS (in the 2003
Gunslinger,
he follows his enemy southeast). At the end of his journey Roland finds himself at the GOLGOTHA, just three miles from the Western Sea, which is the setting for the next book in the series. The Western Sea is a terrible, barren place. Its waters are the color of dirty undergarments and its yellow, gross-grained beaches are littered with no-color shells and rocky protrusions. The tide line crawls with man-eating LOBSTROSITIES and its horizons seem endless and hopeless. The sea’s Lobstrosity Beach is a terrible place, but it is through the magical BEACH DOORS, found here, that Roland draws EDDIE DEAN and SUSANNAH DEAN into his world. In the 2003 version of
The Gunslinger,
we find out that the Western Sea is the edge of the world.
I:44, I:214, II:15–21, II:26–36, II:44, II:55–56, II:62–63, II:72–74, II:76–78, II:79–82, II:92–94, II:99–105, II:135–43, II:154
(indirect),
II:156–57, II:161–82, II:201–9, II:225–312, II:327–38, II:359–60, II:371, II:387–90, II:393–94, III:12, III:47, III:261, III:407, IV:42, IV:96, V:77, V:105, V:409, V:445, V:701, VI:132, VI:284, VI:295, VI:395, VII:177
(shore),
VII:339, VII:594, VII:723, VII:741, VII:749
LOBSTROSITY BEACH:
II:15–21, II:26–36
(setting),
II:44, II:54, II:55–56, II:62–63, II:72–74, II:76–78, II:79–82, II:92–95, II:99–105, II:135–43, II:154
(indirect),
II:156–57, II:161–82, II:201–9, II:225–312, II:327–38, II:359–60, II:387–90, II:393–94, III:13, III:36, III:316
**WEST’RD HALL
See
NEW CANAAN, BARONY OF
: GREAT HALL
WHYE
See
BORDERLANDS
: RIVER WHYE
WIDOW BRAILEY’S BOARDING HOUSE
WIDOW SMACK’S COTTAGE
WILLOW GROVE
See
MEJIS, BARONY OF
: HAMBRY
WILLOW JUNGLE
The Willow Jungle, located in the foothills of the CYCLOPEAN MOUNTAINS, was the home of the ORACLE OF THE MOUNTAINS. (It is sometimes also called the WILLOW GROVE, although the main Willow Grove is in HAMBRY.) After the dry hardpan of the desert, the Willow Jungle’s wet lushness is a relief.
However, this dangerous jungle is the home of vampiric SUCKERBATS and the demonic Oracle of the Mountains. In
The Gunslinger,
Roland gained prophecy from this oracle, but her price was sexual intercourse. Although Roland didn’t know it at the time, this creature was no mere wraith but the female aspect of a DEMON ELEMENTAL. Once she collected Roland’s sperm, she gave it to the servants of the CRIMSON KING, who used it to create MORDRED.
I:117–34, III:172–73, V:46
(indirect)
WIND
Wind is a town even less ritzy than RITZY. It is located fifty miles from Ritzy and the VI CASTIS MOUNTAINS.
IV:266
XAY RIVER
ALAIN JOHNS, CUTHBERT ALLGOOD, and Roland Deschain crossed the Xay River while returning to GILEAD from HAMBRY. To cross the Xay, Roland and his friends had to clamber across a rope bridge. To make sure that no enemies followed, Alain severed the rope after they used it, and the remains of the bridge fell into the water a thousand feet below. Despite there being no bridge to cross, SHEEMIE managed to follow Roland’s
tet
all the way back to Gilead. In
The Dark Tower,
we find out that Sheemie (a powerful BREAKER) teleported himself.
VII:271
25
Go then. There are other worlds than these.
Jake Chambers, I:191
Maybe instead of forty-two continental United States on the other side of the Hudson, there are forty-two hundred, or forty-two thousand, all of them stacked in vertical geographies of chance.
And he understands instinctively that this is almost certainly true. He has stumbled upon a great, possibly endless, confluence of worlds. They are all America, but they are all different. There are highways which lead through them,
and he can see them.
V:298–99
Look, there are a billion universes comprising a billion realities. . . . Those realities are like a hall of mirrors, only no two reflections are exactly the same. I may come back to that image eventually, but not yet. What I want you to understand for now—or simply accept—is that reality is
organic,
reality is
alive.
VII:270
AKRON
See
OHIO
(STATE OF)
ALABAMA (STATE OF)
In SUSANNAH DEAN’s
when
of 1964, Alabama cops were more than willing to sic dogs on black marchers protesting for voting rights. The world might be moving on, but some things have improved.
V:75, VI:109
BIRMINGHAM/BOMBINGHAM:
V:75
MONTGOMERY:
II:199
WOOLWORTH’S:
II:199
ALASKA (STATE OF)
V:428, VII:41, VII:229
ACHIN’ ASSHOLE:
Believe it or not, EDDIE DEAN made this place up. II:396
FAIRBANKS:
The FORTY bus is hobo-speak for the bus that will take you as far away as possible. If you’re living in NEW YORK CITY, the forty bus will probably drop you off somewhere near Fairbanks, Alaska. V:428, VII:41
ALBUQUERQUE
ALDERSHOT
See
ENGLAND
ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS (ALTERNATE AMERICAS)
See
MULTIPLE AMERICAS
,
below in this section; see also
ALTERNATIVE AMERICAS
,
in
APPENDIX I
AMHIGH
See
DRAWERS
: DETTA’S SEX HAUNTS,
in
PORTALS
APPALACHIAN TRAIL
The Appalachian Trail is a continuous footpath that runs from Mount Katahdin in central Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, a distance of approximately 2,160 miles. EDDIE DEAN imagines that the trail is overrun by bomber-joint-smoking hippies carrying packsacks like Roland’s.
II:77
AQUINAS HOTEL
See
BAHAMAS
ARCTIC
JAKE CHAMBERS doesn’t envy people who live in arctic countries, since they have to deal with long periods of darkness each year. He thinks such a life would be even worse than one spent under the artificial sun of THUNDERCLAP.
VII:256
ARIZONA (STATE OF)
V:57, V:118, V:305
BLACK FORK:
In the kind of Western novels which CALVIN TOWER likes to read, heroes always blow into places like Black Fork, Arizona, clean up the town, then blow on like tumbleweeds. III:115, V:57, V:118
GRAND CANYON:
VI:241
PHOENIX:
V:305
ARKANSAS
ODETTA:
ODETTA HOLMES’s mother, ALICE HOLMES, was born here. Hence Odetta (later called SUSANNAH DEAN) was christened with this name. II:199
ATCHISON
See
KANSAS (STATE OF)
;
see also
ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD
below
ATCHISON, TOPEKA, AND SANTA FE RAILROAD
The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company (originally called the Atchison and Topeka Railroad Company) was founded in 1859 by Colonel Cyrus K. Holliday of KANSAS, one of the founders of the town of TOPEKA. The railroad changed its name in 1863 because of its planned expansion. By 1887 the railroad extended all the way to Los Angeles. Known as “The Atchison” in the East and as “The Santa Fe” in the West, it was one of the major railroads serving the Southwest United States.