The Milagro Beanfield War Paperback - 2000
by John Nichols
Joe Mondragon, 36, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble who slams his battered pickup to a stop, tugs on his gumboots, and marches into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he taps into the main irrigation channel--and so begins Nichols's classic tale of the little guy against the big guy.
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went after her, following her tracks in the snow. Just as I left the road to enter the chamisal an owl dropped out of the darkening sky, landing on a cedar post not ten yards away.
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Joe Mondragon, thirty-six with not much to show for it, 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, if impulsively (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, ever so awkwardly, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, groped its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
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- Title The Milagro Beanfield War
- Author John Nichols
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Holt McDougal, New York
- Date 2000-02-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780805063745 / 0805063749
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.2 x 5.66 x 0.81 in (20.83 x 14.38 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
- Geographic Orientation: New Mexico
- Library of Congress subjects Western stories, New Mexico
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93011937
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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