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For twenty years Dan O'Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O'Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starting with thirteen calves, "short-necked, golden balls of wool," O'Brien embarked on a journey that returned buffalo to his land for the first time in more than a century and a half.
Buffalo for the Broken Heart is at once a tender account of the buffaloes' first seasons on the ranch and an engaging lesson in wildlife ecology. Whether he's describing the grazing pattern of the buffalo, the thrill of watching a falcon home in on its prey, or the comical spectacle of a buffalo bull wallowing in the mud, O'Brien combines a novelist's eye for detail with a naturalist's understanding to create an enriching, entertaining narrative.
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Diane Haslett
reviewed Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch on January 04, 2020
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
A beautifully written book about rancher and writer Dan O'Brien converting his cattle ranch to a ranch for bison (or, as they are popularly called, buffalo). As he states it, he's restoring life to his ranch in the Black Hills by bringing bison back to his land for the first time in 150 years. O'Brien had found that he was in a losing struggle to make ends meet with cattle ranching. After helping a neighbor at his buffalo roundup, he decided to bring thirteen bison calves to his ranch, the Broken Heart. It's a story about learning about and working with the great animal that had once numbered in the millions on the Great Plains. It's also a personal story--in particular, I enjoyed reading about O'Brien's helping to restore peregrine falcons to the wild. And it's a story about life on the Plains, not an easy life at the best of times for the people who live there. And these are certainly not the best of times for those who live there.
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Add Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch, For twenty years Dan O'Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O'Brien was inspired to convert his own ranch, the Broken Heart, to buffalo. Starti, Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch to your collection on WonderClub |
