Paul Horgan

Tells of a company of U.S. cavalry in Arizona in the 1880s, and their part in the wars against the Chiricahua Apaches.

A Distant Trumpet

Mountain Standard Time

An epic history of the American southwest.

The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 Vols. in One

Great River

Mountain Standard Time Main Line West Far From Cibola The Common Heart

A story of an old priest who meets death in the desert while on one of his missions to isolated families in the Rio Grande country.

The Devil in the Desert

In 1809 New Mexico, a missioner teaches two boys, Roberto and Carlos, how to carve saints for the local churches and they soon become sought after. When Roberto returns home an tells Carlos he didn't make the congregation pay for the statue of St. Christopher and Jesus, Carlos is upset until Roberto explains what happened that Christmas Eve.

The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History (1976) Originally published in 1975, this Pulitzer Prize for History-winning biography chronicles the life of Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy (1814-1888), New Mexico’s first resident bishop and the most influential, reform-minded Catholic official in the region during the late 1800s. Lamy’s accomplishments, including the endowing of hospitals, orphanages, and English-language schools and colleges, formed the foundation of modern-day Santa Fe and often brought him into conflict with corrupt local priests. His life story, also the subject of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop, describes a pivotal period in the American Southwest, as Spanish and Mexican rule gave way to much greater influence from the U.S. and Europe. Historian and consummate stylist Paul Horgan has given us a chronicle filled with hardy, often extraordinary adventure, and sustained by Lamy’s magnificent strength of character.

Paul Horgan

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