# Death comes for the archbishop

Author: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69730

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Death+comes+for+the+archbishop+Cather&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

ONE afternoon in the autumn of 1851 a solitary horseman, followed by a pack-mule, was pushing through an arid stretch of country somewhere in central New Mexico. He had lost his way, and was trying to get back to the trail, with only his compass and his sense of direction for guides. The difficulty was that the country in which he found himself was so featureless--or rather, that it was crowded with features, all exactly alike. As far as he could see, on every side, the landscape was heaped up into monotonous red sand-hills, not much larger than haycocks, and very much the shape of haycocks. One could not have believed that in the number of square miles a man is able to sweep with the eye...

## Chapters

- [BOOK SEVEN](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/7/index.md)
- [BOOK NINE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/9/index.md)
- [BOOK ONE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK THREE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK FIVE](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/5/index.md)
- [BOOK TWO](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK EIGHT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/8/index.md)
- [BOOK SIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/6/index.md)
- [BOOK FOUR](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-69730/chapters/4/index.md)