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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... Truehart again , and the car would be the white Lincoln the lawyer drove . Nichols waited patiently , knowing the answer to Truehart's proposition would be the same : no , not now , not ever , not in a hun- dred years . He liked Truehart ...
... Truehart again , and the car would be the white Lincoln the lawyer drove . Nichols waited patiently , knowing the answer to Truehart's proposition would be the same : no , not now , not ever , not in a hun- dred years . He liked Truehart ...
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... Truehart . We've been here well , not from the beginning , not the open range days , but not long after . This is ... Truehart's fine suit , and the man was probably getting chilled , but Nichols didn't pause until he came to a half ...
... Truehart . We've been here well , not from the beginning , not the open range days , but not long after . This is ... Truehart's fine suit , and the man was probably getting chilled , but Nichols didn't pause until he came to a half ...
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... Truehart had learned to set aside until his client had a chance to quiet down and reconsider . But whenever True- hart could present the bad news personally , things went better . Truehart sensed that his presence was a steadying ...
... Truehart had learned to set aside until his client had a chance to quiet down and reconsider . But whenever True- hart could present the bad news personally , things went better . Truehart sensed that his presence was a steadying ...
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