Death Comes for the Archbishop Women's History Month and Willa Cather

and Willa Cather

co-founder of the Heard Museum

was commissioned to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the New Mexico Museum of Art

she invariably went her own way

Death Comes for the Archbishop Women's History Month and Willa CatherFrom one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times),an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and