death comes for the archbishop Author:cather, willa In the mid-nineteenth centruy Father Latour went with his friend from seminary days, Father Vaillant, to win the Southwest for Catholicism. After nearly forty years of love and service, the archibshop died "of having lived." — This unaffected narrative of a human life is perhaps Willa Cather's masterpiece. She recounts history so that we feel t... more »he events happened yesterday and might happen again today or tomorrow.« less
I read this before visiting Santa Fe. It gives a vivid picture of life in the southlands before civilization took over. A moving protrait of a man who changed life in those parts for so many people.