Death Comes for the Archbishop

"Death Comes for the Archbishop" is a novel by Willa Cather, first published in 1927. Set in the 19th century, it tells the story of two French Catholic missionaries, Father Jean Marie Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, in the American Southwest, specifically in New Mexico. The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy and his associate, Joseph Projectus Machebe...