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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... thousand per animal ; in doubtful cases they'll pay fifty percent . " That didn't mollify Nichols . " I'll still lose . Those three cows were part of a pedigreed breeding program . This one was a fifteen- hundred pedigreed cow . This ...
... thousand per animal ; in doubtful cases they'll pay fifty percent . " That didn't mollify Nichols . " I'll still lose . Those three cows were part of a pedigreed breeding program . This one was a fifteen- hundred pedigreed cow . This ...
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... thousand in a good year , twenty or less in a bad one , with housing thrown in . Two hundred twenty thousand acres for that . And what it came to is that he'd have to scratch hard , maybe cash an IRA , if he and Sandy were to move to ...
... thousand in a good year , twenty or less in a bad one , with housing thrown in . Two hundred twenty thousand acres for that . And what it came to is that he'd have to scratch hard , maybe cash an IRA , if he and Sandy were to move to ...
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... thousand for sixteen malamutes . " " How about five grand a wolf ? It's a felony to lie to an officer . " ૮ " A felony ? " " How much did you take with you ? Eighty thousand ? You had to declare it , you know . Anything over ten thousand ...
... thousand for sixteen malamutes . " " How about five grand a wolf ? It's a felony to lie to an officer . " ૮ " A felony ? " " How much did you take with you ? Eighty thousand ? You had to declare it , you know . Anything over ten thousand ...
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