The novel's U.S. copyright expired on January 1, 2023, when all works published in 1927 entered the public domain.[4]
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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.
"Bernard," the old Bishop would murmur,...The things about New Mexico that made him feel like a young man included the wind, the sun, and the aroma of the flora, and the promise of new experiences.
In New Mexico he always awoke a young man; not until he rose and began to shave did he...