Death comes for the archbishop / Cather, Willa

Presents the text of the 1927 novel about two priests, friends since their childhood in France, who set out to establish the new Roman Catholic diocese in the American Southwest; and includes explanatory notes, as well as a historical essay that traces the artistic and spiritual development that led to the novel's creation.

The story of a French priest who goes to New Mexico and with another priest wins the Southwest for the Catholic Church. After forty years, he dies--the archibishop of Santa Fe.