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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... hundred buffalo a year in the commons after the herds reach a certain size . And since these tribes traditionally prefer cow meat , which is more tender than bull , this selective har- vesting of female buffalo will have grave con ...
... hundred buffalo a year in the commons after the herds reach a certain size . And since these tribes traditionally prefer cow meat , which is more tender than bull , this selective har- vesting of female buffalo will have grave con ...
Page 248
... hundred- twenty or -fifty thousand dollars . The old Nichols instinct to avoid bank debt flowered in him when he thought of the mortgage . Bank debt had sunk most of the dryland ranchers he knew ; avoiding bank debt was the single thing ...
... hundred- twenty or -fifty thousand dollars . The old Nichols instinct to avoid bank debt flowered in him when he thought of the mortgage . Bank debt had sunk most of the dryland ranchers he knew ; avoiding bank debt was the single thing ...
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... hundred thousand acres , not two hundred twenty . You've got federal and state land mixed with yours and while the governments have given us the use of that land , we can't reach it . " " I can't help that . " " You can't use it and we ...
... hundred thousand acres , not two hundred twenty . You've got federal and state land mixed with yours and while the governments have given us the use of that land , we can't reach it . " " I can't help that . " " You can't use it and we ...
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