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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Page 173
... mean ? " " I mean it's hard to fight the bureaucrats because they hold all the aces . Right now , without your meaning to , you're probably in violation of a few dozen federal regulations . How about pesticides and herbicides ? You use ...
... mean ? " " I mean it's hard to fight the bureaucrats because they hold all the aces . Right now , without your meaning to , you're probably in violation of a few dozen federal regulations . How about pesticides and herbicides ? You use ...
Page 209
... mean you wouldn't have control . I just mean , you wouldn't have to be here all the time . " He seemed to be forming sentences in his head , and finally spoke in measured cadences . " Of course I'd trust you to run it . You know the ...
... mean you wouldn't have control . I just mean , you wouldn't have to be here all the time . " He seemed to be forming sentences in his head , and finally spoke in measured cadences . " Of course I'd trust you to run it . You know the ...
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... mean , wild beasts that had grown up in the brush of Texas . In other words , maybe the old - time longhorns did fend off wolves , but there's no saying that the modern ones would . The breed pretty near died out , but the government ...
... mean , wild beasts that had grown up in the brush of Texas . In other words , maybe the old - time longhorns did fend off wolves , but there's no saying that the modern ones would . The breed pretty near died out , but the government ...
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