Dirt-floored Cabin in the Hills (Location Key)

In The Unvanquished, the "hill man" whom John Sartoris shoots while the railroad is being built lived with his wife and "several children" in "a dirt-floored cabin in the hills" (221). In the Yoknapatawpha fictions, "the hills" typically means the area to the east of Jefferson, where both the soil and the farmers are poor. A "dirt-floored" cabin would be a particularly poor one.