1928 WILLA CATHER. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Superb American Southwest Novel. Civil War gave him a sense of

gave him a sense of moral authority

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A wonderful little item and quite scarce

1928 WILLA CATHER. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Superb American Southwest Novel. Civil War gave him a sense ofA superbly bound first English edition, fourth printing of Willa Cather's classic quasi historical fiction set in the Southwest New Mexico, involving the Mexican American War and the role of the Catholic Church in the emerging Southwest, inclusive of actual historical figures and events. The work was religiously innovative for Cather as well. Her previous religious figures were negative, ultra conservative tropes. Here, she softens and sees good