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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... animals were homeless as well , driven out of their natural habitat by the onslaught of civilization ? Odd how his thoughts devolved from the homeless to the homelessness of plants and animals , driven from their habitat by man ...
... animals were homeless as well , driven out of their natural habitat by the onslaught of civilization ? Odd how his thoughts devolved from the homeless to the homelessness of plants and animals , driven from their habitat by man ...
Page 341
... animal would replace them the new animals would have split hooves and long tails and would become the food of the people . And another shaggy- necked animal with round hooves would come , and the people could ride these crea- tures and ...
... animal would replace them the new animals would have split hooves and long tails and would become the food of the people . And another shaggy- necked animal with round hooves would come , and the people could ride these crea- tures and ...
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... animals at a time , though there were many animals . These buffalo the wolf knew ; they were imprinted in his skull , and he had inherited his knowledge of them in his genes . They were food . Flocks of brown birds followed the herd ...
... animals at a time , though there were many animals . These buffalo the wolf knew ; they were imprinted in his skull , and he had inherited his knowledge of them in his genes . They were food . Flocks of brown birds followed the herd ...
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