In 1848 a missionary bishop dines with cardinals above Rome, and soon Father Jean Marie Latour is riding into the vast new vicariate of New Mexico with his old friend Father Joseph Vaillant. Across mesas, pueblos and Mexican villages they contend with drought, distance and the entrenched power of Padre Martínez of Taos.
Cather’s 1927 novel of faith and landscape in the American Southwest, often counted among her finest works. Download the free EPUB.
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