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Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgivi...

Wandering aimlessly on the dangerous high desert of Nevada Territory in 1860, a fourteen-year-old orphan boy finds shelter, food, and a Christian family at the Pony Express station run by the Lovelocks.

Newly married to Cole Jasper, Abbie tries to escape the nightmares of her first husband's brutal death as she struggles to make a life with her new family on the western frontier.

On the eve of the ceremonies to mark the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, gunmen hide a mysterious package at the Hopewell's bakery, which nearly causes the family to lose their business until they discover that God has had an exciting plan for them all along.