![]() He succeeds, and his candidate, Auvergnat Jean-Marie Latour, is recommended instead of the Bishop of Durango. The prologue begins with Bishop Montferrand, a French bishop who is trying to convince three cardinals to support his choice for the leader of a new diocese in New Mexico. This includes many transgressions from the main story, and fictionalized accounts of real historical figures like Kit Carson, Manuel Antonio Chaves, and Pope Gregory XVI. It doesn’t precisely focus on any single plot or storyline, but it is a stylized retelling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergymen in New Mexico. The third person omniscient story is based around the two historical figures of Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machbeuf. ![]() It was also chosen as the 7 th best Western Novel of the 20 th Century by the Western Writers of America. It was included on the Time’s 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 and Modern Library’s list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20 th century. It appeared on the list of 100 outstanding books of 1924-44 in Life Magazine. The novel was reprinted in the Modern Library series of 1931. ![]() Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by Willa Cather. ![]()
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