Readers of Annie Proulx’s fiction will be familiar with the angry skies of southern Wyoming. They provide a backdrop for three collections of short stories (Close Range, Bad Dirt and Fine Just the Way It Is), as well as Brokeback Mountain. Now Pulitzer-winner Proulx returns to Wyoming, this time with a work of non-fiction.

Bird Cloud tells the story of a 640-acre estate on the western slopes of the Medicine Bow range, close to Saratoga. Bisected by the North Platte River, the land consists of cottonwood, wetland and overgrown pasture – mostly sedge and sage – and a 400-foot cliff, the creamy

Feb 2011

Only Connect

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Words Writ on a Camel’s Shoulder

From Alcibiades to Airbnb

Queen of Hearts

Go With the Floe

Doctorow’s Orders

Journey’s End?

No Country for Young Men

Once So Great

The White Stuff

A Nonagenarian Writes

No One is Immune

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Writing their Own Romance

The Saddest Pleasure

Tales of Derring-Do

Burma Discovered through a Shapely Basket

In Memoriam

Conquistadors & Cubaneros

Shine On

Water, Water, Everywhere

The Pursuit of Fear

Travelling Companions

Child Of The Pole

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