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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... stopped to visit with the brand inspectors — they'd been stuck in a lousy office and I always told ' em I'd try to get ' em something better . We were real people then stockmen and the state hadn't become the yuppie capital of the world ...
... stopped to visit with the brand inspectors — they'd been stuck in a lousy office and I always told ' em I'd try to get ' em something better . We were real people then stockmen and the state hadn't become the yuppie capital of the world ...
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... stopped at a wire gate , but before he could get out , Horoney was drop- ping the gate to let the Explorer through . In his rearview mirror he watched the billionaire carefully pull the gate taut and drop the wire loop over the post ...
... stopped at a wire gate , but before he could get out , Horoney was drop- ping the gate to let the Explorer through . In his rearview mirror he watched the billionaire carefully pull the gate taut and drop the wire loop over the post ...
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... stopped at one of the eastside ranch- supply outfits he always enjoyed those places and loaded up with forty blocks ... stopped loving her , never stopped hoping , never abandoned the dream of a lifetime together with his slim bride ...
... stopped at one of the eastside ranch- supply outfits he always enjoyed those places and loaded up with forty blocks ... stopped loving her , never stopped hoping , never abandoned the dream of a lifetime together with his slim bride ...
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