In July, we wrote about Huntington Beach’s own Milagro Beanfield War. We said that we hoped it wouldn’t take a milagro -- a miracle -- to save it from development. Historically, the low-lying bean ...

The Milagro Beanfield War is a great book and a decent movie about a farmer from a small down-and-out town who inadvertently starts a rebellion against a greedy developer by irrigating his small bean ...

John Nichols, who wrote more than a dozen novels including The Milagro Beanfield War and The Sterile Cuckoo — both of which were turned into films by top directors — died Wednesday in Taos, NM. He was ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Writer John Nichols, best known for his populist novel, “The Milagro Beanfield War," has died. He was 83. Nichols died Monday at home in Taos, New Mexico, amid declining health ...

Chick Vennera, famous for portraying a bean farmer in Robert Redford’s The Milagro Beanfield War and starring in hits like Thank God It’s Friday and Golden Girls, has died. The Broadway and screen ...

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this ...

John Nichols, a New York City transplant to New Mexico whose exuberant novels transformed him from an urban gringo into a local idol, died Nov. 27 at his home in Taos. He was 83. The cause was heart ...

After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos. By Sam Roberts John Nichols, a New York City transplant to New Mexico whose ...

SANTA FE — Writer John Nichols, best known for his populist novel, “The Milagro Beanfield War,” has died. He was 83. Mr. Nichols died Monday at home in Taos, N.M., amid declining health linked to a ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Writer John Nichols, best known for his populist novel, “The Milagro Beanfield War,” has died. He was 83. Nichols died Monday at home in Taos, New Mexico, amid declining health ...