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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... grassland commons , this time through his own resources . Employing the entrepreneurial genius that had won him one of the world's great for- tunes , Horoney set to work . He talked to state legislators about the grasslands . He lob ...
... grassland commons , this time through his own resources . Employing the entrepreneurial genius that had won him one of the world's great for- tunes , Horoney set to work . He talked to state legislators about the grasslands . He lob ...
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... grassland project . Congress had rejected it . The federal bureaucracy lacked the funds and authority to create it . The foundation had spent , so far , four billion of Laslo Horoney's dollars to create the Grassland National Trust ...
... grassland project . Congress had rejected it . The federal bureaucracy lacked the funds and authority to create it . The foundation had spent , so far , four billion of Laslo Horoney's dollars to create the Grassland National Trust ...
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... Grassland . Let's go deeper . Why should we ? What value is there in it ? This is a dreary little streambed in a little trench in the prairie . Yes , it has its quiet beauty . So do the prairies , as featureless as they may seem . I ...
... Grassland . Let's go deeper . Why should we ? What value is there in it ? This is a dreary little streambed in a little trench in the prairie . Yes , it has its quiet beauty . So do the prairies , as featureless as they may seem . I ...
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