Death Comes for the Archbishop Author:Cather, Willa In the mid-nineteenth century Father Latour, eventually to become archbishop of Santa Fe, went with his friend from seminary day, Father Vaillant, to win the Southwest for Catholicism. After nearly forty years of love and service, the archbishop died. Willa Cather's masterpiece.
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.