Books by our Founder Dan O'Brien

Stories about Wild Idea, Buffalo, and the Great Plains by our Founder, Dan O'Brien. 

Buffalo for the Broken Heart: O’Brien embarks on a personal journey that returns buffalo to his land for the first time in more than a century and a half.  Buffalo for the Broken Heart is at once a tender account of the buffaloes’ first seasons on the ranch and an engaging lesson in wildlife ecology. 

Wild Idea: At its center, Wild Idea is about a family and the people and animals that surround them - all trying to build a healthy life in a big, beautiful, and sometimes dangerous land. 

Great Plains Bison: Great Plains BISON is a tribute to the bison's essential place at the heart of the North American prairie and its ability to inspire advocates in the fight to preserve American biodiversity. A must-read!

Great Plains - America's Lingering Wild: Through lyrical photographs, essays, historical images, and maps, this beautifully illustrated book gets beneath the surface of the Plains, revealing the lingering wild that still survives and whose diverse natural communities, native creatures, migratory traditions, and natural systems together create one vast and extraordinary whole.