Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > The Lighter Side
ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
jpwagoneer1964:
Evantson, Wy
moremojo:
Newcastle, Texas
--situated in Young County; former coal-mining center before the discovery of oil in the area closed the mines.
welliwont:
Elk Point, AB
Meryl:
Trochu, Alberta
EDelMar:
--- Quote from: nakymaton on October 12, 2006, 08:20:16 am ---Ten Sleep, WY - wyomen and shakestheground think this is the town that Annie Proulx based the fictional Signal on. The real Brokenback Mountain is near it.
--- End quote ---
Yes, it was. Signal Butte is this butte/bluff IMMEDIATELY west of Ten Sleep, about a mile west of the middle of town. The ONLY other use of the name "Signal" in the entire state is Signal Peak in the Tetons.
I never thought much of Signal Butte till the movie came out but I did take this quick photo not too long ago...but I guess I might get a better one when I'm up there in a week taking care of ranch business.
The old rodeo ground along Nowood Road before the bends is a dead-ringer for the corrals in the movie (when we came down off the mountain in 63 and Aguirre got all upset at us)
-Ennis
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