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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... told them that the re- stored plains was one of the greatest of all gifts to a crowded world ; that this proposed wild land would become a home to its own again , and would remind future generations of what it means to live in harmony ...
... told them that the re- stored plains was one of the greatest of all gifts to a crowded world ; that this proposed wild land would become a home to its own again , and would remind future generations of what it means to live in harmony ...
Page 321
... told him what we faced , and he told me it was our own choice . He's right . " " It isn't our choice . I don't know why you say that . This came on us . وو " We had the chance to get out whole , into a better place , with a net gain in ...
... told him what we faced , and he told me it was our own choice . He's right . " " It isn't our choice . I don't know why you say that . This came on us . وو " We had the chance to get out whole , into a better place , with a net gain in ...
Page 454
... told me he was awed by Ted Turner's herd , and he told me some- thing else , son . He saw you come alive when you saw those big dark animals blackening the slopes over there . He came back here and told me about it , how something in ...
... told me he was awed by Ted Turner's herd , and he told me some- thing else , son . He saw you come alive when you saw those big dark animals blackening the slopes over there . He came back here and told me about it , how something in ...
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