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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... looked at Martin with a certain understanding gleaned from decades of dealing with students . " You know , if you do want to keep at it , I can arrange a teaching assistant job . Maybe scrape up a scholarship . Help you with a stu- dent ...
... looked at Martin with a certain understanding gleaned from decades of dealing with students . " You know , if you do want to keep at it , I can arrange a teaching assistant job . Maybe scrape up a scholarship . Help you with a stu- dent ...
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... looked uncomfortable . Maybe it was a trick of light , but Nichols looked more and more like the weathered rancher he was , his face and body chastened by wind and rain and sun , hard work , broken bones , bad moments on a horse or ...
... looked uncomfortable . Maybe it was a trick of light , but Nichols looked more and more like the weathered rancher he was , his face and body chastened by wind and rain and sun , hard work , broken bones , bad moments on a horse or ...
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... looked , really looked , at them before . His mother was wreathed in sadness , as if she were trapped but hadn't surrendered to her fate , and bore it because she had to . He had never noticed that . No one asked him how he was doing at ...
... looked , really looked , at them before . His mother was wreathed in sadness , as if she were trapped but hadn't surrendered to her fate , and bore it because she had to . He had never noticed that . No one asked him how he was doing at ...
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