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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... headed down the long hall , using her antler - handled cane , and patting all those poor empty - headed old people as she passed . She reached the private meeting room just before her family walked in , and she saw at once that not many ...
... headed down the long hall , using her antler - handled cane , and patting all those poor empty - headed old people as she passed . She reached the private meeting room just before her family walked in , and she saw at once that not many ...
Page 212
... headed across the flat to the old ranch house , intending to visit with her mother if that was possible . By one or two in the afternoon it often wasn't . She knocked , headed for the den , but her mother wasn't there . The television ...
... headed across the flat to the old ranch house , intending to visit with her mother if that was possible . By one or two in the afternoon it often wasn't . She knocked , headed for the den , but her mother wasn't there . The television ...
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... headed outward and formed a perimeter . The wolves streaked toward the injured buffalo , which ran at sur- prising ... heading toward high brushy ground where wolves could not maneuver easily . The earth trembled beneath the weight of so ...
... headed outward and formed a perimeter . The wolves streaked toward the injured buffalo , which ran at sur- prising ... heading toward high brushy ground where wolves could not maneuver easily . The earth trembled beneath the weight of so ...
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