The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan

The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old 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.

Pocket Books 1977 paperback edition in great condition, see photos.