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The Milagro Beanfield War

By John Nichols

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The Milagro Beanfield War

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The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico Trilogy ("Gentle, funny, transcendent." -The New York Times Book Review) 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 tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
2000-02-15
Publication Date:
2000-02-15
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0805063749
ISBN13:
9780805063745
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
363 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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