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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... earth good ? Was mankind's desire to make the earth bloom good ? Would it be better for the world if people didn't exist upon it ? Negative answers to these questions lay at the heart of Green religion . Ancient Jewish and Christian ...
... earth good ? Was mankind's desire to make the earth bloom good ? Would it be better for the world if people didn't exist upon it ? Negative answers to these questions lay at the heart of Green religion . Ancient Jewish and Christian ...
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... earth , lowered there by the ranch managers . Later , Mark and some of them would shovel in the earth and restore the sod . A gravestone would arrive soon , and his grandfather would be there forever , beside his Mabel . Martin dodged ...
... earth , lowered there by the ranch managers . Later , Mark and some of them would shovel in the earth and restore the sod . A gravestone would arrive soon , and his grandfather would be there forever , beside his Mabel . Martin dodged ...
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... earth trembled beneath the weight of so many buffalo , and their hooves churned the tan earth , mauled the grasses underfoot , broke open the soil . The alpha wolf dived under the horns of a bull buffalo and streaked toward the lame ...
... earth trembled beneath the weight of so many buffalo , and their hooves churned the tan earth , mauled the grasses underfoot , broke open the soil . The alpha wolf dived under the horns of a bull buffalo and streaked toward the lame ...
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