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his first official visit to Taos—after Albuquerque, the largest and richest parish in his diocese. Both the priest and people there were hostile to Americans and jealous of interference. Any European, except a Spaniard, was regarded as a gringo.
I had that same feeling when I visited Taos in 2005...
Father Latour judged that the day of lawless personal power was almost over, even on the frontier,
If only!
there had never been trouble afoot in New Mexico that wasn’t started in Taos.
Laughed out loud!
The landscape one longed for when one was far away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!
Absolutely true. It's what keeps me in New Mexico.
