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 315
... wished they could arrive at a deal , and he could sit down and write out a check for two hundred twenty thousand acres . And he wished he could invite Cameron to become one of the directors of his foundation . The man was wise in the ...
... wished they could arrive at a deal , and he could sit down and write out a check for two hundred twenty thousand acres . And he wished he could invite Cameron to become one of the directors of his foundation . The man was wise in the ...
Page 450
... Martin figured he had to forgive his grandfather , and wished he could have done so while the old man lived . Now it hung over him , unfinished business . His father had started the restoration . Not that it was enough , 450.
... Martin figured he had to forgive his grandfather , and wished he could have done so while the old man lived . Now it hung over him , unfinished business . His father had started the restoration . Not that it was enough , 450.
Page 502
... wished he'd sell out and pay them off instead of resisting the inevitable . But he did resist , and would resist . Oddly , he didn't have to . He was executor of his father's estate and could vote the Nichols Ranch shares as he wished ...
... wished he'd sell out and pay them off instead of resisting the inevitable . But he did resist , and would resist . Oddly , he didn't have to . He was executor of his father's estate and could vote the Nichols Ranch shares as he wished ...
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