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...blowing this summer. Mathers will survive as he always has, with hard work, shrewd calculation. He and those like him may be the future of this vast and troubled land, which seems to be stumbling back in time toward a recast frontier where grass will be king, some buffalo may actually roam again, and man will be in the minority...
...nation's legend and romance. Sitting Bull warred and wept on the plains. General George Custer wandered there with the Seventh Cavalry, his pack of greyhounds, and his band playing the march Garry Owen, then galloped to his dreadful rite of immortality at Little Big Horn. Sixty million buffalo were mindlessly slaughtered on the cinnamon land swells. When the plow came, the Dust Bowl was born...
Some years back, Robert Scott, of the nonprofit Institute of the Rockies in Missoula, proposed the Big Open, a 15,000-sq.-mi. chunk of struggling central Montana that would be linked cooperatively by public and private owners into a wildlife range for 300,000 buffalo, deer, antelope and elk. His figures suggested that on the average, the 3,000 people living there would make more tending to tourists and hunters than from ranching and farming. Writer Douglas Coffman, who helped Scott, saw even more: a chance to recapture a bit of the original American heart, something brave and wild...
...Poppers' good sense was to get rock-solid data. Their genius was to see and understand the grim trend. Their audacity was to propose a solution and give it a bumper-sticker name: Buffalo Commons. Their good fortune was to be near New York City, which still tingles from the memories of its rich sons, like Theodore Roosevelt, sent west a century ago for thrills and toughening. The national media reveled in an honest-to-goodness cowboy story...
...Buffalo at N.Y. Jets