Dirt-floored Cabin in the Hills in The Unvanquished (Location)

Display Label: 
Dirt Floor Cabin
Map Icon: 
Cabin
Authority : 
Speculation
X: 
1885
Y: 
530
Description: 

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.

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
White-occupied Cabin

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