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The chapter on the annual buffalo roundup alone is worth the price—O’Brien’s prose makes you feel the cold wind and the weight of the animals. I’ve never set foot on a ranch, but his twenty-year struggle to keep things going pulled me in from the first page.

I’ve read a lot of ranch memoirs but none that capture the quiet desperation of a failing cattle operation quite like this, the buffalo roundup scenes are almost cinematic. It’s a slow burn that rewards patience, and I found myself thinking about his choices days after finishing the last chapter. De

The way he weaves the hard realities of ranching with the raw power of the buffalo is hauntingly beautiful. I picked it up for a weekend read and couldn't put it down, the pacing is perfect for a story about a man's reckoning with his life's work.