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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... miles of High Plains , hun- dreds , maybe thousands of square miles , left them bare as a billiard a billiard table , prone to erosion — until ranchers killed them , shot them , poisoned them off . Then the prairies bloomed . " " The ...
... miles of High Plains , hun- dreds , maybe thousands of square miles , left them bare as a billiard a billiard table , prone to erosion — until ranchers killed them , shot them , poisoned them off . Then the prairies bloomed . " " The ...
Page 179
... miles from the ranchers who wanted it for their cattle . In fact , I pride myself that my research has enabled the government to recapture hun- dreds of square miles of land and to improve the regulation of every ranch and mine in the ...
... miles from the ranchers who wanted it for their cattle . In fact , I pride myself that my research has enabled the government to recapture hun- dreds of square miles of land and to improve the regulation of every ranch and mine in the ...
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... miles into Montana , west- ward twenty miles into Idaho and Montana , and thirty to forty miles eastward into Wyo- ming , would ensure grizzly , wolf , and other habitat currently endangered by the Forest Service's disastrous multiple ...
... miles into Montana , west- ward twenty miles into Idaho and Montana , and thirty to forty miles eastward into Wyo- ming , would ensure grizzly , wolf , and other habitat currently endangered by the Forest Service's disastrous multiple ...
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