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Ten Sleep was an American Indian rest stop, so called because it was 10 days' travel, or “10 sleeps,” from Fort Laramie (southeast), [14] Yellowstone National Park (west-northwest) [citation needed], and the Indian Agency on the Stillwater River in Montana (northwest) [citation needed].
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 collection consists of eleven stories, all set in Wyoming; Proulx moved to the state in the 1990s. [1] Five of the eleven stories are set in the fictional Wyoming town of "Elk Tooth", [2] a town of 80 inhabitants in which each individual "tries to be a character and with some success.
Vedauwoo is located in the Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest and includes a day-use picnic area and an overnight campground. It is also a popular climbing area . Interstate 80 passes just south of the main rock outcroppings and well-marked highway signs indicate the exit to use in order to reach Vedauwoo.
"Brokeback Mountain" is a story told by an omniscient narrator.The narrative is realistic in tone and employs description, metaphor and dialogue to examine the actions, thoughts, emotions, and motivations of its main characters.
The Territory of Wyoming was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 25, 1868, [1] until July 10, 1890, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Wyoming. Cheyenne was the territorial capital. The boundaries of the Wyoming Territory were identical to those of the modern State of Wyoming.
The Washburn Expedition of 1870 explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that two years later became Yellowstone National Park. Led by Henry D. Washburn and Nathaniel P. Langford , and with a U.S. Army escort headed by Lt. Gustavus C. Doane , the expedition followed the general course of the Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition made the ...
The Government of Wyoming (1904), The Pathbreakers from River to Ocean (1911), The Bozeman Trail (1922), co-author with E.A. Brinninstool (collaboration done entirely via correspondence) [4] Washakie (1930), Sacajawea (1933) Illness and ultimately her death ended progress on what would have been Hebard's final book, an account of the Pony Express.