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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Page 239
... waited curi- ously for the result , if any . The animal stood a moment , and then crumpled . That was fine with Trouble . He ejected the shell , watching the rest of the antelope race over the ridge and vanish . On second thought , he ...
... waited curi- ously for the result , if any . The animal stood a moment , and then crumpled . That was fine with Trouble . He ejected the shell , watching the rest of the antelope race over the ridge and vanish . On second thought , he ...
Page 543
... waited for more , but whatever else was on her mind vanished into the silence as he steered the pickup along a desolate road . " The foundation's in a jam , too , " he ven- tured after a while . " They're required to pay the same taxes ...
... waited for more , but whatever else was on her mind vanished into the silence as he steered the pickup along a desolate road . " The foundation's in a jam , too , " he ven- tured after a while . " They're required to pay the same taxes ...
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... waited for more . " We love that land , Dad , but times are changing . It was always a tough place to ranch . I know we have roots there . Mine go deep , like yours . But it's not the only place in Montana . You know what got us down ...
... waited for more . " We love that land , Dad , but times are changing . It was always a tough place to ranch . I know we have roots there . Mine go deep , like yours . But it's not the only place in Montana . You know what got us down ...
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