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About the Author

Dan O’Brien is the author of numerous novels and memoirs, including Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch, winner of the Western Heritage Award for best nonfiction. His books Stolen Horses, Equinox, The Indian Agent, and The Contract Surgeon are available from the University of Nebraska Press.

Reviews

"Wild Idea is a lyrical tribute to the idea of buffalo back on the plains, the rewards and challenges of putting them there. But it is so much more. It's about all the life on the prairie, on the hardscrabble ranches and in the small towns. With this book, Dan secures his place as our modern prairie muse." - Tom Brokaw, NBC journalist and author "Dan O'Brien's book strike me as a gentle but badly needed confrontation... Figuring out how to realign the way we live with the health of the ecological systems that support us is the single most important challenge of the twenty-first century, and that makes O'Brien's book an essential meditation." - Edward Norton, actor and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity "Making strong, lasting connections between the rugged land and the strong people is a staple of life on the Great Plains. Dan O'Brien's gift is helping people understand this connection and the basic and difficult truth that sustainable living is not simple; it is as matted and dense as the thick fur that defines the buffalo's very nature." - Tom Daschle, former U.S. senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate majority leader