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. 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. Ward based on Nicholss novel of the same name. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. The Milagro Beanfield War is a 1988 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Redford from a screenplay written by John Nichols and David S. 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. When a Chicano handyman from the Milagro Valley decides to irrigate his small beanfield by 'borrowing' some water from a large and potentially destructive site, he unknowingly sets off a chain. 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. The hub of the action occurs as Joe Mondragon (Chick Vennera), a young husband and father, diverts water from a huge development corporation’s supply down into his own dusty land. The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico Trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” - The New York Times Book Review)
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