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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => Topic started by: Shakesthecoffecan on September 18, 2006, 05:29:37 pm

Title: Who, What, When and Where
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on September 18, 2006, 05:29:37 pm

So it occured to me the otherday, reading that Annie Proulx's house was for sale, reading about the bar in Sheridan, Wyoming that has been id'd as the place the story generated, hearing at her lecture that she wrote it at "an old Wells Fargo desk" I got to wondering: Where did she write this story? I kind of don't think it was at the house she is now selling, but wherever it was needs to be acknowledge as a historic site, like where Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn. The desk, that would be an important thing too.

Anyone got any leads on this, or anything else that needs to be indentified, like that old cowboy, etc?

Title: Re: Who, What, When and Where
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on September 18, 2006, 07:01:17 pm

We need to put up a historical marker at the Laramie cement plant. Annie writes in "Getting Movied":

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The scene for the kiss when Jack and Ennis reunite after four years occurred to me in its entirety as I drove past the Laramie cement plant--so much for scenery.

 ;D

She also writes that a curve on Owl Canyon Road in Colorado "became the curve that killed Ennis's parents."

Title: Re: Who, What, When and Where
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on September 20, 2006, 02:59:32 pm

I spoke with her agent yesterday, he said he thought this is where she was living when she wrote BBM, but would have to ask her to be sure, he said she had lived there about 10 years.