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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... kill them . Cameron would disapprove , but so what ? Cameron had to watch out for the reputation of Nichols Ranches , especially now . And watch out for his own hide , because the act of killing a protected wolf could cost him a few ...
... kill them . Cameron would disapprove , but so what ? Cameron had to watch out for the reputation of Nichols Ranches , especially now . And watch out for his own hide , because the act of killing a protected wolf could cost him a few ...
Page 163
... kill cattle and sheep and domestic dogs if they have to , and sometimes do what we call sur- plus killing , especially of sheep . They're also shy , steer clear of ranches and home- steads , and prefer the prey that they've been ...
... kill cattle and sheep and domestic dogs if they have to , and sometimes do what we call sur- plus killing , especially of sheep . They're also shy , steer clear of ranches and home- steads , and prefer the prey that they've been ...
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... kill like that , caused by their own neglect , but get all steamed up about wolves ? What's in your values , your beliefs , that says twenty thousand frozen cattle are a part of ranching , but a wolf kill isn't ? How many wolves would ...
... kill like that , caused by their own neglect , but get all steamed up about wolves ? What's in your values , your beliefs , that says twenty thousand frozen cattle are a part of ranching , but a wolf kill isn't ? How many wolves would ...
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