Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share
her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of
untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering of the
layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. 'Bird Cloud'
is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and
prairie and 400 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 knew she
had to purchase the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, and
she knew what she would build on it - a house in harmony with her
work, her appetites and her character - a library surrounded by
bedrooms and a kitchen. Proulx's first non-fiction in more than
twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of building that house -
solar panels, a Japanese soak tub, a concrete floor, elk horn
handles on kitchen cabinets - and an enthralling natural history
and archeology of the region, inhabited for millennia by Ute,
Arapaho and Shoshone Indians. It is also a family history, going
back to nineteenth century Mississippi river boat captains and
Canadian settlers, and an illuminating autobiography. Proulx, a
writer with extraordinary powers of observation and compassion,
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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