Lamy of Santa Fe
by Paul Horgan
NOVELS
The Fault of Angels • The Habit of Empire • No Quarter Given
The Common Heart • Main Line West • Give Me Possession
A Lamp on the Plains • Memories of the Future • A Distant Trumpet
Far from Cibola • Whitewater
Mountain Standard Time
(containing Main Line West, Far from Cibola, and The Common Heart) Mexico Bay
THE RICHARD TRILOGY
Things As They Are • Everything to Live For • The Thin Mountain Air
OTHER FICTION
The Return of the Weed • The Saintmaker’s Christmas Eve
Figures in a Landscape • Humble Powers • The Devil in the Desert
Toby and the Nighttime (juvenile) One Red Rose for Christmas The Peach Stone: Stories from Four Decades
HISTORY AND OTHER NON-FICTION
Men of Arms (juvenile) • From the Royal City New Mexico’s Own Chronicle (with Maurice Garland Fulton) Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History The Centuries of Santa Fe • Rome Eternal • Citizen of New Salem Conquistadors in North American History Peter Hurd: A Portrait Sketch from Life • Songs After Lincoln The Heroic Triad: Essays in the Social Energies of Three Southwestern Cultures • Maurice Baring Restored Encounters with Stravinsky: A Personal Record • Approaches to Writing Lamy of Santa Fe: His Life and Times Josiah Gregg and His Vision of the Early West
COLLECTIVE VOLUME
Of America East & West
Selections From the Writings of
Paul Horgan
LAMY
OF
SANTA FE
Paul Horgan
Wesleyan University PressMiddletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress
Copyright © 1975 by Paul Horgan
All rights reserved
Published by arrangement with
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC
First Wesleyan University Press edition 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0–8195–6532–7
Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Horgan, Paul, 1903–
Lamy of Santa Fe, his life and times / Paul Horgan.
p. cm.
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1975.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–8195–6532–6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Lamy, John Baptist, 1814–1888. 2.
Catholic Church—New Mexico—Bishops—Biography. I. Title.
BX4705.L265 H67 2003
282'.092—dc21
[B] 2002033055
In Homage and Affection
to
Henry Allen Moe
and
to
the memory of
Harriet Christy,
a promise fulfilled
Contents
| i. | The Fugitives |
| ii. | Caesar and Vercingetorix |
| iii. | Romanesque Heritage |
| iv. | Auvergnats |
| v. | The Home Village |
| vi. | The Two Friends |
| vii. | To Go |
| viii. | America |
II. THE MIDDLE WEST • 1839–1850
| i. | Cincinnati |
| ii. | To the Forests |
| iii. | The Pattern |
| iv. | Those Waiting |
| v. | Self-Searchings |
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