Lamy of Santa Fe

by Christman, Jill

• ISBN13: 9780819565327
• ISBN10: 0819565326
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-05
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Originally published in 1975, this Pulitzer Prize for History-winning biography chronicles the life of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888), New Mexico's first resident bishop and the most influential, reform-minded Catholic official in the region during the late 1800s. Lamy's accomplishments, including the endowing of hospitals, orphanages, and English-language schools and colleges, formed the foundation of modern-day Santa Fe and often brought him into conflict with corrupt local priests. His life story, also the subject of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, describes a pivotal period in the American Southwest, as Spanish and Mexican rule gave way to much greater influence from the U.S. and Europe. Historian and consummate stylist Paul Horgan has given us a chronicle filled with hardy, often extraordinary adventure, and sustained by Lamy's magnificent strength of character.

Author Biography

PAUL HORGAN (1904-1995) was a novelist, historian and biographer--and one of the 20th century's most gifted authors. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for History in a literary career spanning seven decades, and taught at Yale University, University of Iowa and Wesleyan University. His many other books include The Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History (Wesleyan, 1991).

Table of Contents

France 1814-1839

The Fugitives

Caesar and Vercingetorix

Romanesque Heritage

Auvergnats

The Home Village

The Two Friends

To Go

America

The Middle West

Cincinnati

To the Forests

The Pattern

Those Waiting

Self-Searching

The Materials

Private Concerns

Machebeuf's Intrigue

The Way

To Covington

Lamy to France

After the 1846 War

A Bishop for New Mexico

These Two Vicars

To Santa Fe

New Orleans

S. S. Palmetto

Interlude at Galveston

The Wreck at Indianola

San Antonio

To the Rio Grande

Triumphal Entry

The Desert Diocese

Defiance

The Society

The First Needs

The Durango Journey

Confrontation in Durango

Disciplines

The Plains Eastward

Westward Prairies

The Antagonists

The Pastoral Letter

Rebellion

Diocese See

Trouble at Albuquerque

Disputed Boundaries

The Old Dean

Scandal at Taos

Martinez Rampant

The Advocate at Rome

Martinez Gallegos Politics

Machebeuf and Company Returning

The Excommunications

Schism

The Colonists

Niceties of Geography

The Poisoned Chalice

Quest in Sonora

Again to Auvergne

Quarrel with Durango

"Pike's Peak"

Marie, the Convent, the Country

The Civil War and Santa Fe

Emergencies-Denver and Return

The Painted Land

Across Arizona

Hospitals and Schools

Christmas eve: Attempted Murder

Rome and Battle

Rome - An Accounting

Madame Bontesheim and Bureaucracy

Homeward

Prairie News

The Battle of the Arkansas Crossing

Increase

A Quiet Conscience

Two New Bishops

Vatican Council

Follies and Dangers

For the Pueblos

Hard Times

Archbishop

The Archbishop

Jubilation

A Mile a Day

Styles

Atmospheres

Gardener and Apostle

Relief

The Gardener

The Apostle

Changeover

The Old Men

Day's End

Two Summertimes

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