Part autobiography, part natural history, Bird Cloud is the
glorious story of Annie Proulx's piece of the Wyoming landscape and
her home there."Bird Cloud" is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640
acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs
plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first
visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky.
Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue
herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer
and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by
the Nature Conservancy, and she knew what she wanted to build on
it--a house in harmony with her work, her appetites and her
character, a library surrounded by bedrooms and a kitchen. Bird
Cloud is the story of designing and constructing that house--with
its solar panels, Japanese soak tub, concrete floor, and elk horn
handles on kitchen cabinets. It is also an enthralling natural
history and archaeology of the region--inhabited for millennia by
Ute, Arapaho, and Shoshone Indians--and a family history, going
back to nineteenth-century Mississippi riverboat captains and
Canadian settlers. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of
observation and compassion, here turns her lens on herself. We
understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by
wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books and long worktables
on which to heap manuscripts, research materials and maps, and how
she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.
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