Death Comes for the Archbishop

Archbishop Latour's New Mexico Territory of the 1850s, from the plaza and the cathedral he raises at Santa Fé, out to the sky-city of Ácoma on its mesa, up to rebel Taos and down through Albuquerque. Cather names the real pueblos, towns and missions; the bbox spans northern New Mexico from Ácoma and Albuquerque up to Taos.

Bishop Jean Latour

Santa Fe, the capital

Book 1: Santa Fé · 6% through the novel

As the wagons went forward and the sun sank lower, a sweep of red carnelian-coloured hills lying at the foot of the mountains came into view; they curved like two arms about a depression in the plain; and in that depression, was Santa Fé, at last! A thin, wavering adobe town ... a green plaza ... at one end a church with two earthen towers that rose high above the flatness.

Latour and Vaillant ride down at sundown to their new seat, an adobe town gathered around a green plaza and an old church, ringed by the red hills. Cather draws the real capital of New Mexico Territory, the plaza and streets still there, where the historical Archbishop Lamy governed his diocese.

explicit Named directly in the text.

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