Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 1956 Arthur Miller had lived briefly in Nevada and wrote a short story about some of the local people he had become acquainted with , a divorced woman and some aging cowboys .
Simplified: In 1956 Arthur Miller had lived briefly in Nevada and wrote a short story about some of the local people he had met there , a divorced woman and some aging cowboys .