Rocky Mountain News 4 of 5 Stars"While her virtual newcomer status hardly trumps those who herald back-to-pioneer days, the beauty of her prose and the ease with which her characters rise vividly and memorably from the page belie all else. ??? Proulx balances the dark places in her collection with a humor that acknowledges, as the pioneers did, that death and sickness are a part of life; we can dw