{"product_id":"where-the-buffalo-roam-restoring-americas-great-plains-9780226510965","title":"Where the Buffalo Roam: Restoring America's Great Plains","description":"In 1987 Frank and Deborah Popper proposed a bold solution to the decline of America's Great Plains: create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles in ten states to prairie and reintroducing the buffalo that once roamed there. In \u003ci\u003eWhere the Buffalo Roam\u003c\/i\u003e, Anne Matthews follows the Poppers from Montana to Texas as they try to sell their idea called the Buffalo Commons; in the process, she introduces us to the people who love these arid windswept lands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition includes a new foreword by environmental historian Donald Worster. Matthews's new afterword describes how with growing support from Native Americans and private groups like the Nature Conservancy, the Poppers' dream of a Buffalo Commons is becoming a reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An admirably crafted book, as poignant and entertaining as it is informative.\"--\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A priceless piece of Americana.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Matthew's delightful account of the Poppers, their proposal and the controversy surrounding it does focus new attention on the region and its problems.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bright, active, effective journalism. . . . An extremely savvy overlook of the dilemmas of the Great Plains.\"--Wallace Stegner \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Matthews\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eBright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today\u003c\/i\u003e, published by the University of Chicago Press, and \u003ci\u003eWild Nights: Nature Returns to the City\u003c\/i\u003e. Her family has lived on the Great Plains for seven generations.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318493745426,"sku":"9780226510965","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6a628ae4-2f93-4e51-9a77-0bdc05286b99.jpg?v=1727556181","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-the-buffalo-roam-restoring-americas-great-plains-9780226510965","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}