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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1976). The extraordinary biography of a pioneer hero of the frontier Southwest from the author of Great River.
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,...
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The Pulitzer Prize– and Bancroft Prize–winning epic history of the American Southwest from the acclaimed twentieth-century author of Lamy of Santa Fe.
Great River was hailed as a literary masterpiece and enduring classic when it first appeared in 1954. It is an epic history of four civilizations-Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American-that people the Southwest through ten centuries. With the skill of a novelist, the veracity of...
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"...one of the most perfect books I have ever read. In an American Eden, a boy grows up, experiencing glory and horror and sin, with the suffering and sorrow it entails..." Anne Fremantle "...poignantly renders the 'confusion called childhood' -- its fears and terrors, its half-innocent delights, its intimations realized beyond words -- and renders all this with a lyric passion...." Winfield Townley Scott.
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