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A return to the Wyoming of Brokeback Mountain and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk, from the native Indian tribes to the modern day ranch owners and politicians, and their cowboy forebears. These are stories of desperation and hard times, often marked by an inescapable sadness, set in a landscape both brutal and magnificent. Enlivened by folk tales, flights of fancy, and details of ranch and rural work, they juxtapose Wyoming's traditional character and attitudes - confrontation of tough problems, prejudice, persistence in the face of difficulty - with the more benign values of the new west.