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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,…


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As a result of reading this book, I now eat buffalo with great enthusiasm. Buffalo, or bison, meat has far less fat than beef, is quite tender and tasty if cooked more quickly than beef, and comes from an animal that is instrumental in restoring American prairie land. The story of one man's introduction to buffalo and the history of his surrounding ranch land unfolds in an interesting, compelling way.

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