Billy Goat Hill

An American novel. In Kentucky, early in the twentieth century, the old Thornwood mansion stands on Billy-goat Hill, a hill that the nearby city is slowly taking over. Colonel Bob Carsey lives there with his daughter, nicknamed Miss Lady, a free and joyful girl who has educated herself out of doors. She falls in love with Donald Morley, a rich and unsteady young man whom her father distrusts. A bloody brawl in a saloon on the edge of town, in which Donald is implicated, and then a tragic accident turn her life upside down. A novel full of humour and tenderness, peopled with colourful figures from the poor district.