The Milagro beanfield war
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Published
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1974].
Edition
[First edition].
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445 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Black Canyon City Community Library - FIC - Fiction Books
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Published
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1974].
Format
Book - Regular Print
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English

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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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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Nichols, J. T. (1974). The Milagro beanfield war ([First edition].). Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-2023. 1974. The Milagro Beanfield War. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Nichols, John Treadwell, 1940-2023. The Milagro Beanfield War Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.

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Nichols, John Treadwell. The Milagro Beanfield War [First edition]., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.

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