The Buffalo CommonsThe High Plains of eastern Montana are the setting for this riveting contemporary novel about good people warring over their ideals. The battle is between those who hope to restore the vast Western prairie lands to their former grandeur, where buffalo and wolves roam freely, and the ranchers who have sunk roots in the soil and wrested a living from it. Laslo Horoney is a billionaire with a dream to convert the High Plains into a national grasslands, to restore damage done by farming and overgrazing; the Nichols ranching family see this effort as a threat to a way of life that has sustained them for over a century. The Buffalo Commons is a tau, beautifully conceived drama about what happens when people of good intentions and noble dreams clash over what the earth is for and how life must be lived on it. |
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Page 147
... High Plains , and moving people to areas more suited to human nature , had anything to do with anything , especially the homeless who lived a subterranean life in the great cities of America . But it all made sense to him , and she ...
... High Plains , and moving people to areas more suited to human nature , had anything to do with anything , especially the homeless who lived a subterranean life in the great cities of America . But it all made sense to him , and she ...
Page 315
... High Plains and its people . If that place was home to the Nichols family , then perhaps the rest of the High Plains would be , too , if Laslo could per- suade Nichols to see it that way . That afternoon and evening progressed uneasily ...
... High Plains and its people . If that place was home to the Nichols family , then perhaps the rest of the High Plains would be , too , if Laslo could per- suade Nichols to see it that way . That afternoon and evening progressed uneasily ...
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... high plateau to the west , prime elk and future wolf ground , partly held privately . But now he was researching the most exciting thing of all , the proposed Grassland National Park , with a half - million - dollar research contract ...
... high plateau to the west , prime elk and future wolf ground , partly held privately . But now he was researching the most exciting thing of all , the proposed Grassland National Park , with a half - million - dollar research contract ...
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