Nebraska pulls out all the stops for this superb scholarly edition of Cathers 1927 novel.This edition includes a newly restored text along with several historical essays and explanatory notes by several scholars.Academic libraries supporting hardcore American literature curricula will want this volume.

In 1851 Bishop Latour and his friend Father Vaillant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism.Moving along the endless prairies,Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-gently,although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape,derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests,and his own loneliness.Over nearly forty years,the two friends leave converts and enemies,crosses and occasionally ecstasy in their wake.But it takes a death for them to make their mark on the landscape for ever...