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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Page 287
... give her a life if she didn't want to live one . He couldn't give her a home if she wouldn't make one . He couldn't give her will if she had abandoned will . And yet . . . if she could not or would not respond , he would do what he ...
... give her a life if she didn't want to live one . He couldn't give her a home if she wouldn't make one . He couldn't give her will if she had abandoned will . And yet . . . if she could not or would not respond , he would do what he ...
Page 569
... give it to the Park Ser- vice . And if I do give it to a public agency , I'll offer it on my own terms . I don't want the land and wildlife managed except for a while to reintroduce and stabilize species . Long term , I want nature to ...
... give it to the Park Ser- vice . And if I do give it to a public agency , I'll offer it on my own terms . I don't want the land and wildlife managed except for a while to reintroduce and stabilize species . Long term , I want nature to ...
Page 611
... give the land to the federal government . The states - I think I can speak for Wyoming and South Dakota as well as our great state of Montana would actually find it a burden to maintain on their own . So much land , so little revenue ...
... give the land to the federal government . The states - I think I can speak for Wyoming and South Dakota as well as our great state of Montana would actually find it a burden to maintain on their own . So much land , so little revenue ...
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