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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... cattle fast , so he contracted the job . Two calves and a heifer died in the transfer . Moving all those cattle bit into his operating funds , and he had no guarantee that the wolves wouldn't appear the next day on the southern ranches ...
... cattle fast , so he contracted the job . Two calves and a heifer died in the transfer . Moving all those cattle bit into his operating funds , and he had no guarantee that the wolves wouldn't appear the next day on the southern ranches ...
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... cattle , measuring horns , devouring history books about the settlement of Montana by those like Nelson Story who drove the Texas cattle north into a virgin land . DeeAnn told him his father's office would soon have a gigantic set of ...
... cattle , measuring horns , devouring history books about the settlement of Montana by those like Nelson Story who drove the Texas cattle north into a virgin land . DeeAnn told him his father's office would soon have a gigantic set of ...
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... cattle had vanished , driven off by men on horses . Those cattle had taken their toll of the wolves . The alpha male had seen some pups and some females die . He had seen those long fierce horns impale a female right through her gut and ...
... cattle had vanished , driven off by men on horses . Those cattle had taken their toll of the wolves . The alpha male had seen some pups and some females die . He had seen those long fierce horns impale a female right through her gut and ...
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