Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author O'Brien, Dan, 1947-

Title Wild idea : buffalo and family in a difficult land / Dan O' Brien
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; About the Author; Other Works by Dan O'Brien
Summary For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed, free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands of the northern plains would return natural balance to the region and reestablish the undulating prairie lost through poor land management and overzealous farming. In 1998 he bought his first buffalo and began the task of converting a little cattle ranch into an ethically run buffalo ranch. Wild Idea is a book about how good food cho
Notes English
Print version record
Subject O'Brien, Dan, 1947-
SUBJECT O'Brien, Dan, 1947-
O'Brien, Dan, 1947- fast
Subject Ranchers -- South Dakota -- Biography
Bison farming -- South Dakota -- Broken Heart Ranch
Ranch life -- South Dakota -- Broken Heart Ranch
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Plains & Prairies.
Bison farming
Ranch life
Ranchers
South Dakota
South Dakota -- Broken Heart Ranch
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803286382
0803286384
0803286368
9780803286368