Death Comes for the Archbishop - The Original Classic Edition (Paperback)

from KarlNarveson

Cather's people need landscapes, preferably wide and spacious and newly opened to settlement. Having mined her Nebraska childhood in what I think are her three best works (O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark), Cather tries what she can do with New Mexico. The point of view is entire...

from laytonwoman3rd

This is the story of Father Latour, a French priest sent by Rome in the mid-nineteenth century to be the first Bishop of the Diocese of New Mexico...a vast expanse of scattered mission churches led by priests who have had very little accountability and are often more concerned with their own mate...

from ffortsa

While presented as fiction, this is actually the story of Jean-Baptiste Lamy (here named Jean Marie Latour), a missionary from France who was sent first to Cincinnati and then to Santa Fe, New Mexico as bishop of the new diocese. Cather is wonderful in her descriptions of the land and the hardshi...

from ctpress

I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. This is not a novel of plot - which one finds out along the dusty way - it's more a chronicle of various events of two french catholic missionaries - which Willa Cather have based on two real life characters. The ...

from laytonwoman3rd

This is the story of Father Latour, a French priest sent by Rome in the mid-nineteenth century to be the first Bishop of the Diocese of New Mexico...a vast expanse of scattered mission churches led by priests who have had very little accountability and are often more concerned with their own mate...