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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... thought about this , thought hard until her head ached with her thoughts . What was happening ? She had tried to explain it all in terms of money , economics , gain and loss , style of living , material things . But none of it made much ...
... thought about this , thought hard until her head ached with her thoughts . What was happening ? She had tried to explain it all in terms of money , economics , gain and loss , style of living , material things . But none of it made much ...
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... thought , not know- ing why he thought it . He had some primor- dial way of recognizing other peoples . He returned to his camp at dusk . One wor- shiper had built a fire and was cooking . Trouble had a small propane stove , and cooked ...
... thought , not know- ing why he thought it . He had some primor- dial way of recognizing other peoples . He returned to his camp at dusk . One wor- shiper had built a fire and was cooking . Trouble had a small propane stove , and cooked ...
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... thought the case was powerful . But he doubted that the Greens present gave it a second thought , because their thinking didn't run that way , and the protection of the civil rights of citizens didn't interest them . Cameron turned to ...
... thought the case was powerful . But he doubted that the Greens present gave it a second thought , because their thinking didn't run that way , and the protection of the civil rights of citizens didn't interest them . Cameron turned to ...
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