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Summary: Annie Proulx bought a 640-acre nature preserve by the North Platte River in Wyoming and started building her dream house, a project that took years and went hundreds of thousands of dollars over budget. The house inspires Proulx's engrossing natural history of the locale. She drives cattle off the overgrazed terrain; finds stone arrowheads; recounts stories of Native Americans, ranchers, and big-game hunters; and documents the eagles, magpies, mountain lions, and other animals