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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... knew full well that there would first be a ten - year moratorium while the herd was built and range restored , and that the founda- tion had plenary power to limit or even stop the buffalo hunting in the event that tribal hunting ...
... knew full well that there would first be a ten - year moratorium while the herd was built and range restored , and that the founda- tion had plenary power to limit or even stop the buffalo hunting in the event that tribal hunting ...
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... knew what he meant . She had already drifted from him into her boozy world . " I won't , " she whispered . " I'm tough . A Butte kid . " She laughed unsteadily . The next days went a little better . Every time Cam could , he took her ...
... knew what he meant . She had already drifted from him into her boozy world . " I won't , " she whispered . " I'm tough . A Butte kid . " She laughed unsteadily . The next days went a little better . Every time Cam could , he took her ...
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... knew it had . Years ago , he had read David Riesman's pioneering work about the evolution of Americans from their origins as tradition - directed to inner- directed and then to other - directed . He knew himself to be an inner ...
... knew it had . Years ago , he had read David Riesman's pioneering work about the evolution of Americans from their origins as tradition - directed to inner- directed and then to other - directed . He knew himself to be an inner ...
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