The Milagro Beanfield War
of John Nichols
Series: The New Mexico Trilogy #1
Description
Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly ter, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 456 pages
- Publisher Holt McDougal
- Publication Date February 15th 2000
- First Publication 10/28/74
- Language English
- ISBN 9780805063745
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['New Mexico (United States)']
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