Lamy of Santa Fe. Paul Horgan

      

      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 PressMiddletown, 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.