Cather includes many fictionalized accounts of actual historical figures, including Kit Carson, Manuel Antonio Chaves and Pope Gregory XVI. The narration is in third-person omniscient style. The narrative has frequent digressions, either in terms of stories related to the pair (including the story of the Our Lady of Guadalupe and the murder of an oppressive Spanish priest at Acoma Pueblo) or through their recollections. The narrative is based on two historical figures of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and rather than any one singular plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico. copyright expired on January 1, 2023, when all works published in 1927 entered the public domain. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather.
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