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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... land . Years ago , the Nichols family did a big land swap with the BLM that con- solidated the holdings of both , but there's still a lot of loose land , some ours , some fed- eral , that we're going to be locked out of . There's also ...
... land . Years ago , the Nichols family did a big land swap with the BLM that con- solidated the holdings of both , but there's still a lot of loose land , some ours , some fed- eral , that we're going to be locked out of . There's also ...
Page 502
... land might yet whip him . Nichols Ranches had already spent thirty thousand in legal fees . He had pushed his line ... land , in its mysterious beauty and power , in its innate ability to vest its owners with dig- nity . She believed ...
... land might yet whip him . Nichols Ranches had already spent thirty thousand in legal fees . He had pushed his line ... land , in its mysterious beauty and power , in its innate ability to vest its owners with dig- nity . She believed ...
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... land he stood upon , the fruitfulness of its grasses if he nurtured them . He sensed that some pro- found love of land had inspired Laslo Horoney , and some lust for land had inspired the various federal land - management bureaus to ...
... land he stood upon , the fruitfulness of its grasses if he nurtured them . He sensed that some pro- found love of land had inspired Laslo Horoney , and some lust for land had inspired the various federal land - management bureaus to ...
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