The Buffalo CommonsThorndike Press, 1999 - 676 pages The 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 187
... keep a dryland ranch company going , weathered brown yet urbane and worldly in his own way . And Deirdre , the one who would keep it going in the future ; the one who hadn't fled , the way the rest had fled , but had made a home in a ...
... keep a dryland ranch company going , weathered brown yet urbane and worldly in his own way . And Deirdre , the one who would keep it going in the future ; the one who hadn't fled , the way the rest had fled , but had made a home in a ...
Page 228
... keep the herd off Nichols land , and that'll cost over a million . I'll look into it . " He jotted a memo to himself . " Also give me options . Can we rent the land from the family ? Is there room to deal ? Can we just pull down fences ...
... keep the herd off Nichols land , and that'll cost over a million . I'll look into it . " He jotted a memo to himself . " Also give me options . Can we rent the land from the family ? Is there room to deal ? Can we just pull down fences ...
Page 261
... keep on working , but I'd like to turn most of it over to you , DeeAnn and Mark . I plan to keep the ranch house , maybe stay in it weekdays and fly or drive to Billings weekends . " DeeAnn watched her grandfather draw into himself ...
... keep on working , but I'd like to turn most of it over to you , DeeAnn and Mark . I plan to keep the ranch house , maybe stay in it weekdays and fly or drive to Billings weekends . " DeeAnn watched her grandfather draw into himself ...
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