{"product_id":"the-milagro-beanfield-war-1","title":"The Milagro Beanfield War","description":"It was a soft, early spring morning with the mist still clinging to the mountain and the blackbirds just starting to swoop low over the alfalfa fields when Jo Mondragon - thirty-six with not much to show for it, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble - slammed his battered pick-up to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground his father had once cultivated. Carefully, impulsively (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel.\nAnd so began - though few knew it at the time (least of all Joe) - the great Milagro beanfield war.\nBut like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than battlefield victories. Gradually, ever so fumblingly, the small farmers and sheepmen began 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 huddled in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroyed their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes.\nThe tale of Milagro's rising is widly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, groped its way toward it own stubborn salvation.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0805028056\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0805028056.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Templeton, Rini|Nichols, John Treadwell\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43374460010557,"sku":"BVV.0805028056.G","price":34.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0805028056-0.jpg?v=1784591589","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-milagro-beanfield-war-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}