NMLP P-001843 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Close Range: Wyoming Stories (contains "Brokeback Mountain")

Annie Proulx · Scribner · 1999

US Scribner's is the true first book appearance of the collection; the separate 2005 stand-alone "Brokeback Mountain" booklet (a movie tie-in) is a later "first thus," not the first appearance.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-001843 for "Close Range: Wyoming Stories (contains "Brokeback Mountain")" by Annie Proulx (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-001843, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).