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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 Press
Middletown, 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. FRANCE • 1814–1839

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

vi
.

The Materials

vii
.

Private Concerns

viii
.

Machebeuf's Intrigue

ix
.

The War

x
.

To Covington

xi
.

Lamy to France

xii
.

After the 1846 War

xiii
.

A Bishop for New Mexico

xiv
.

These Two Vicars

III. TO SANTA FE • 1850–1851

i
.

New Orleans

ii
.

S.S.
Palmetto

iii
.

Interlude at Galveston

iv
.

The Wreck at Indianola

v
.

San Antonio

vi
.

To the Rio Grande

vii
.

Triumphal Entry

IV. THE DESERT DIOCESE • 1851–1852

i
.

Defiance

ii
.

The Society

iii
.

The First Needs

iv
.

The Durango Journey

v
.

Confrontation in Durango

vi
.

Disciplines

vii
.

The Plains Eastward

viii
.

Westward Prairies

V. THE ANTAGONISTS • 1852–1856

i
.

The Pastoral Letter

ii
.

Rebellion

iii
.

Diocesan See

iv
.

Trouble at Albuquerque

v
.

Disputed Boundaries

vi
.

The Old Dean

VI. SCANDAL AT TAOS • 1852–1861

i
.

Martínez Rampant

ii
.

The Advocate at Rome

iii
.

Martínez, Gallegos, Politics

iv
.

Machebeuf and Company Returning

v
.

The Excommunications

vi
.

Schism

VII. THE COLONISTS • 1858–1863

i
.

Niceties of Geography

ii
.

The Poisoned Chalice

iii
.

Quest in Sonora

iv
.

Again to Auvergne

v
.

Quarrel with Durango

vi
.

“Pike's Peak,”

vii
.

Marie, the Convent, the Country

viii
.

The Civil War and Santa Fe

ix
.

Emergencies—Denver and Return

VIII. THE PAINTED LAND • 1863–1867

i
.

Across Arizona

ii
.

Hospital and Schools

iii
.

Christmas Eve: Attempted Murder

IX. ROME AND BATTLE • 1867

i
.

Rome—An Accounting

ii
.

Madame Bontesheim and Bureaucracy

iii
.

Homeward

iv
.

Prairie News

v
.

The Battle of the Arkansas Crossing

X. INCREASE • 1868–1874

i
.

A Quiet Conscience,

ii
.

Two New Bishops

iii
.

Vatican Council

iv
.

Follies and Dangers

v
.

For the Pueblos

vi
.

Hard Times

XI ARCHBISHOP • 1875–1880

i
.

The Archbishop

ii
.

Jubilation

iii
.

A Mile a Day

iv
.

Styles

v
.

Atmospheres

XII. GARDENER AND APOSTLE • 1880–1885

i
.

Relief

ii
.

The Gardener

iii
.

The Apostle

XIII. DAY'S END AT SANTA FE • 1884–1889

i
.

Changeover

ii
.

The Old Men

iii
.

Day's End

iv
.

Two Summertimes

Sources Consulted

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Illustrations

map spread across

Travels of Lamy and Machebeuf in America 1839–1884

following page 140

SANTA FE LIFE IN THE LAMY EPOCH

The old adobe parish church and first cathedral of Santa Fe

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

A soldier's sketch of Santa Fe, c. 1846–1850

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

Caravan waggons of the Santa Fe Trail in the plaza

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The pastoral look of life in Santa Fe

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The Plaza of La Mesilla, c. 1860s

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The Plaza of Santa Fe, c. 1870s

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The carved eighteenth-century stone reredos of Santa Fe

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The chapel of Our Lady of Light

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

Lamy's country retreat, Villa Pintoresca—
exterior

[
Loretto Motherhouse Archives, Kentucky
]

Villa Pintoresca—the chapel

[
Loretto Motherhouse Archives, Kentucky
]

The stone cathedral of St Francis under construction

[
Museum of New Mexico
]

The completed cathedral as it stands today

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