Footsteps of Willa Cather

The mission church at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, features 18th-century art at its altar. Laguna was one of the Pueblo missions mentioned in Willa Cather's noted novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, a fictionalized account of the life of New Mexico's first archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, who presided in Santa Fe in the 1850s. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)

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The mission church at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, features 18th-century art at its altar. Laguna was one of the Pueblo missions mentioned in Willa Cather's noted novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, a fictionalized account of the life of New Mexico's first archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy, who presided in Santa Fe in the 1850s. (Kevin Moloney for the New York Times)