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The Milagro Beanfield War
- 464 pages · about 8 hours
- First published 1974
- 18 editions
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1 About this book
Joe Mondragon, thirty-six, is a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, who slammed his battered pickup to a stop one day, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into an arid patch of ground. Then, illegally, he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began John Nichols' classic tale of the little guy against the big guy -- The Milagro Beanfield War.
Good for readers who want: a western and a long read.
- Mexican Americans
- New mexico
- Westerns
2 About John Treadwell Nichols
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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