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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... drove needles down his neck , raised dust probably off some nearby wheat ranch — and drove it into him . The dryness worried him , but drought was an ancient enemy the Nichols family knew well . Eventually , after one or two or three ...
... drove needles down his neck , raised dust probably off some nearby wheat ranch — and drove it into him . The dryness worried him , but drought was an ancient enemy the Nichols family knew well . Eventually , after one or two or three ...
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... drove slowly north and west , along rutted ranch roads , through open gates , dodging mirey puddles and stretches of gumbo left from some welcome showers . After an ominously dry spring , the fickle rains had come in a rush , and the ...
... drove slowly north and west , along rutted ranch roads , through open gates , dodging mirey puddles and stretches of gumbo left from some welcome showers . After an ominously dry spring , the fickle rains had come in a rush , and the ...
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... drove back to Bozeman , with the gates of his mind wide - open to all the thoughts he'd pushed aside driving out there to that oasis . This day he had crashed . This day he had quit . This day he had abandoned years of work , thrown out ...
... drove back to Bozeman , with the gates of his mind wide - open to all the thoughts he'd pushed aside driving out there to that oasis . This day he had crashed . This day he had quit . This day he had abandoned years of work , thrown out ...
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