The Milagro Beanfield War

The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy, later adapted to film by Robert Redford.

“Gentle, funny, transcendent.”
—The New York Times Book Review

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. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began—though few knew it at the time—the Milagro beanfield war....