Dan O'Brien recounts his efforts to bring buffalo back to his ranch in the Great Plains.

Dan O'Brien, writer, wild-life biologist, falconer, buffalo rancher, tells of his love-affair with the Western South Dakota grassland area near Bear Butte and his hope to repopulate the nesting areas on Bear Butte with falcons.

Fish and Wildlife agent Margaret Adamson arrives in the Black Hills of South Dakota to approve the construction of a condominium. Opposing the project is environmentalist Bill Malone, a well-known falconer. When a truck driver is killed, Malone becomes the suspect and Adamson sets out to clear his name. Twenty years earlier, they were high school sweethearts. By the author of Spirit of the Hills