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Lamy of Santa Fe

Paul Horgan

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Lamy of Santa Fe

Lamy of Santa Fe won the Pulitzer Prize for History. The extraordinary biography of a pioneer hero of the frontier Southwest 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, including the endowing of hospitals, orphanages, and English-language schools and colleges, formed the foundation of modern-day Santa Fe and often brought him into conflict with corrupt local priests. His life story describes a pivotal period in the American Southwest, as Spanish and Mexican rule gave way to much greater influence from the U.S. and Europe. Historian and consummate stylist Paul Horgan has given us a chronicle filled with hardy, often extraordinary adventure, and sustained by Lamy's magnificent strength of character.

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Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Year
2003
ISBN-13
9780819565327
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Catholic Church in the American SouthwestFrontier New Mexico historyArchbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy

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