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Review title: Cowboy Cartoons, Nicely Rendered.
Product review: It's clear that Proulx is a skillful prose stylist, and some of the stories are surprising in their plots, but her "cowboys" seem like paper doll versions of real people--viewed from outside and ultimately stereotypical. I don't care if it's bleak or if it shows Wyoming in a bad light; I just wanted to believe in these folks. But despite her fine sense of detail, the characters make me think that the author's view is mainly that of a tourist--an ethnographer who has the details right, but draws the spirit of the characters from careful study of "Gunsmoke" or some such.
