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death comes for the archbishop
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 »
ISBN: 196204
Publication Date: 1971
Pages: 299
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Publisher: vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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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.


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