The Hawkline Monster · A Gothic Western

Richard Brautigan. The Hawkline Monster. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1974]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 216 pages.

The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. What follows is a series of wild, witty, and bizarre encounters. The book was originally published in 1974.