Close Range: Wyoming Stories

1st edition
Author(s)	E. Annie Proulx
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	May 10, 1999
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	288 pp
ISBN	0684852217
OCLC Number	40595315
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 21
LC Classification	PS3566.R697 C58 1999

Close Range: Wyoming Stories is a 1999 collection of short stories written by E. Annie Proulx. The stories are set in the desolate landscape of rural Wyoming and detail the often grim lives of the protagonists.

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, starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal.

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"
• "Brokeback Mountain"

External links

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