Close Range: Wyoming Stories

	First edition cover
Author	Annie Proulx
Language	English
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	May 10, 1999
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	288 pp
ISBN	0-684-85221-7
OCLC	40595315
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Class	PS3566.R697 C58 1999

Last updated July 31, 2025

Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories by Annie Proulx,^[1] beginning in 1997. The stories are set in the desolate landscape of rural Wyoming and detail the often grim lives of the protagonists.

The collection was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

The best known story from the collection is "Brokeback Mountain", which was previously published as a 64-page novella in 1998. The story was the basis for Ang Lee's 2005 film, Brokeback Mountain .

The volume includes 11 short stories:

"The Half-Skinned Steer"
"The Mud Below"
"Job History"
"The Blood Bay"
"People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water"
"The Bunchgrass Edge of the World"
"Pair a Spurs"
"A Lonely Coast"
"The Governors of Wyoming"
"55 Miles to the Gas Pump", a brief vignette about a rancher's wife who discovers the corpses of missing women in the attic
"Brokeback Mountain"

References

↑ Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (May 12, 1999). "'Close Range': Lechery and Loneliness Out West". The New York Times . Retrieved September 18, 2020.

External links

Don't Fence Me In: Book review by the New York Times

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[The_New_York_Times_-_May_12,_1999_-_Christopher_Lehmann-Haupt_-_'Close_Range':_Lechery_and_Loneliness_Out_West-1] Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (May 12, 1999). "'Close Range': Lechery and Loneliness Out West". The New York Times . Retrieved September 18, 2020.

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