Death Comes for the Archbishop, 9780192849250
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Faith, friendship, and fate in the American Southwest, a spiritual journey.

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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  • Paperback

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    3 June 2026

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Summary

‘One afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way’

Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American wars. Father Jean-Marie Latour and Joseph Vaillant spread Catholic faith and religious practices, convert and gather new souls, and discipline…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780192849250
ISBN-10:0192849255
Author:Willa Cather, Catherine Morley
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:3 June 2026
Weight:215g
Dimensions:200mm x 230mm x 17mm
Series:Oxford World's Classics
About The Author

Willa Cather

Catherine Morley is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction (2008) and Modern American Literature (2010). She is also the co-editor of American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century (2008).

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