I might have seen that movie or something... lol
I'd have cast Tommy Lee Jones as Officer Clem Luttrell, but knowing the Coen brothers, they've have stuck with William H. Macy.
I'm not certain the area around the Licking River would necessarily have worked for the scenery; I threw in 'pining for the Licking' instead of pining for the fjords and I'm more familiar with Paris, Kentucky than the Licking River.
Clem and Skeeter aren't true Bourbon County names. Bourbon County is more horses and, well, bourbon.