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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... felt old . At seventy - one he no longer understood the world , and felt that he had outlived his times . He heard his grand- son's wavering voice fiercely asserting that the plains were not fit for human habitation , all of which was ...
... felt old . At seventy - one he no longer understood the world , and felt that he had outlived his times . He heard his grand- son's wavering voice fiercely asserting that the plains were not fit for human habitation , all of which was ...
Page 160
... felt like it . " You two lost ? " he said , poking his rifle back into its carrying bag . " No , we were just wondering what a man with a rifle might be doing this time of year , " said the hippie . " I'm Dudley Nichols ; this is my ...
... felt like it . " You two lost ? " he said , poking his rifle back into its carrying bag . " No , we were just wondering what a man with a rifle might be doing this time of year , " said the hippie . " I'm Dudley Nichols ; this is my ...
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... felt like doing . He'd read a little , but he didn't like books and he was sick of print and computer screens . He didn't know what he'd do what did it matter ? The red light on his answering machine was blinking when he walked in , but ...
... felt like doing . He'd read a little , but he didn't like books and he was sick of print and computer screens . He didn't know what he'd do what did it matter ? The red light on his answering machine was blinking when he walked in , but ...
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