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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... herds undulate across the hills , constant restless movement . There were , actually , seven or eight groups , all within sight of the other groups and yet dis- tinct , as if this giant herd had divided itself into precincts . This is ...
... herds undulate across the hills , constant restless movement . There were , actually , seven or eight groups , all within sight of the other groups and yet dis- tinct , as if this giant herd had divided itself into precincts . This is ...
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... herd grazed through thick brown grasses that had never been touched this summer or last . Some of the grasses had dropped their seed . Some had been eaten down to the ground by prairie dogs . But no man intervened . The wolf crawled ...
... herd grazed through thick brown grasses that had never been touched this summer or last . Some of the grasses had dropped their seed . Some had been eaten down to the ground by prairie dogs . But no man intervened . The wolf crawled ...
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... herd . Some ran ; big bulls headed outward and formed a perimeter . The wolves streaked toward the injured buffalo , which ran at sur- prising speed , almost as fast as the rest of the herd . But the big bulls formed a wall of horns and ...
... herd . Some ran ; big bulls headed outward and formed a perimeter . The wolves streaked toward the injured buffalo , which ran at sur- prising speed , almost as fast as the rest of the herd . But the big bulls formed a wall of horns and ...
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