A surprising setting for a Bellow story

Came across a Saul Bellow story that I'd never read nor in fact even heard of in an old edition of the Norton Anthology of Short Stories, Leaving the Yellow House, which turns out to be a narrative about a 70-something widowed woman living alone in an isolated town in the far west built upon the ruins of a tungsten mine and on the shores of a volcanic lake probably in Nevada tho Bellow doesn't specify. He does denote in I think the first sentence that Hattie is one of only six white people in the town - a strange almost racist observation (there are native Americans, blacks, hispanics, but they don't seem to count) tho it does set up the social miles and mentality of the community. Hattie is embittered and debilitated, a far-along alcoholic,and the story concerns her doomed efforts to live independently following a car crash - she insists she lost control when she sneezed, a comic motif in this long piece, whereas everyone knows she was blind drunk. In a touching manner, several of the few townsfolk do come to her aid but none is willing to take her in permanently unless paid for their efforts, understandably - tho Hattie has no money to spare. (In part this story, from 1957, is about the absence of social services in the US and the bogus nature of the belief if independence and minimal government.) Bellow does a great job giving us a vision of the isolated community, w both humor and pathos. Most surprising to me was that this story is in the Bellow corpus; everything else I've read by him is about Chicago or Jewish intellectuals or gonifs and shysters or Manhattan - all of it urbane or broadly comic (e.g. Henderson); this shows a thematic or at least topical range in his work (it was included in the Mosby's Memoirs collection) that I'm guessing most readers are unaware of; perhaps other works in that collection peer off in different directions as well - an oportunity for Bellow to spread his wings so to speak. Q