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