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Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: The Modern Library, 1927.
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But in reality the Bishop was not there at all; he was standing in a tip-tilted green field among his native mountains, and he was trying to give consolation to a young man who was being torn in two before his eyes by the desire to...
Latour no longer believed in the relocation of the tribes..... their exile from their homeland. In the end, all the people he had served, including Eusabio (the Navajo chief) had come together in prayer.
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