![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 23, 1974 More alive than a grasshopper on a hot skillet''-a scrappy shaggy story, down the road a long ways from The Sterile Cuckoo, full of good humor and even better intentions about a small brushfire war in a Chicano community. 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 MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR by John Nichols RELEASE DATE: Sept. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. 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. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. ![]() 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. ![]()
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