Lamy of Santa Fe (78 page)

73

(Lamy on several lists) VPF, Baltimore Council to Pius IX, 1849, Latin

(Lamy first on list for Santa Fe) CIN/ND, Eccleston to Purcell, Baltimore, 30 March 1850

cholera not so bad CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Covington, Ky., 25 July 1850

(establishment, vicariate) Salpointe,
Soldiers
, 194

(Lamy named vicar apostolic) Salpointe,
LA SEMAINE RELIGIEUSE,
French; Councilia Prov. Bait., 273, Latin

74

(the great news—these two vicars) RA, Machebeuf to sister, on board
Peytona
en route New Orleans, 17 Jan 1851, French

(Machebeuf's dilemma) Ibid.

75

never to be separated Ibid.

(Lamy retreat, Ursulines)
Fifty Years

(Blanc on Lamy's plans) CIN/ND, Blanc to Purcell, New Orleans, 16 Nov 1850, French; GALV, Blanc to Odin, New Orleans, 21 Sept 1850, French

76

(Cincinnati 1850s) Contemporary engravings

(St Peter's, Cincinnati) Brochure, Cincinnati cathedral; Trollope, T.A., 59, 60

77

“bishop factory” McCann

(the consecrators) HL

77–80

(Lamy consecration) McMahon,
passim

80

(Lamy's episcopal ring) Brun-Voyat, conversation with author

Purcell preached McCann

81

(Rappe tries to persuade) RA, Machebeuf to sister, on board
Peytona
, 17 Jan 1850, French

85

25 November 1850 VPF, Lamy to Barnabo, Santa Fe, 8 May 1864, French

86

mixed passenger list Darton, 35; RA, Machebeuf to sister, on board
Peytona
, 17–20 Jan 1851, French

86–87

(details, river travel) Ibid.

87

(Lamy guest of Blanc) VPF, Lamy to Barnabo, Santa Fe, 8 May 1864, French

“friend and brother” CIN/ND, Blanc to Purcell, New Orleans, 16 Nov 1850, English, French

(why via New Orleans?) Ibid.

(Lamy to Mobile) GALV, Blanc to Odin, New Orleans, 21 Dec 1850, French

(New Orleans, description) Defouri, 32; photos and prints, New Orleans Public Library

88

(Gulf shipping details)
COMMERCIAL BULLETIN,
New Orleans, 4 Jan 1851;
DAILY PICAYUNE,
New Orleans, 4 Jan 1851; TCA, Odin to Blanc, Galveston, 30 Dec 1850, French

89

(Odin advice for Lamy) Ibid.

90

(Lamy to sail on Army transport; missed it) RA, Machebeuf to sister, New Orleans, 23 Jan 1851, French

(Lamy takes next ship) Ibid.

(
Palmetto
cargo)
COMMERCIAL BULLETIN,
New Orleans, 6 Jan 1851

(
Palmetto
condemned; Lamy knew it) MNM,
RED RIVER CHRONICLE,
29 April 1882

having left a letter RA, Machebeuf to sister, New Orleans, 23 Jan 1851, French

91

(Pilot-town, description) Contemporary print, New Orleans Public Library

(Lamy arrives at Galveston) TCA, Odin to Blanc, Galveston, 8 Jan 1851, French

91–93

(Odin advises Lamy, Galveston; Lamy sails on) TCA, Odin to Blanc, Galveston, 10 Jan 1851, French

94

(weather turned result of “norther”) Defouri, 33

95–96

(
Palmetto
wreck, details)
DAILY PICAYUNE,
New Orleans, Tuesday, 21 Jan 1851

95

“white with frost” MNM,
RED RIVER CHRONICLE,
29 April 1882

(drunkenness ashore) Ibid.

96

(Lamy, Negro helper, salvages some books) Defouri, 33

Capt. James Cummings
DAILY PICAYUNE,
New Orleans, 21 Jan 1851

“A Card—to the Public” Ibid.

97

(Smith—testimonials and reply)
NEWS,
Galveston, 14 Feb 1851

(Indianola, a railroad terminal) Hine, 17

98

(San Antonio, description) Reps; Schuchard

99

(Lamy losses, asks loan) L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1851

“disastrous beginnings” ND, Rev James F. Wood to Purcell, Cincinnati, 14 March 1851

“bought bronco mules” MNM,
RED RIVER CHRONICLE,
29 April 1882

gave further thought TCA, Odin to Blanc, Galveston, 7 Feb 1851

(Machebeuf at New Orleans; death of Margaret Lamy) RA, Machebeuf to sister, New Orleans, 23 Jan 1851, French

100

(Lamy accident) Salpointe, in
LA SEMAINE RELIGIEUSE

to overtake the soldiers Howlett, 157

“Lamy will start for Santa Fe” TCA, Odin to Blanc, 17 Feb 1851, French

during the delay VPF, Zubiría to VPF, Durango, 1 Nov 1851, Spanish

101

(Lamy, Machebeuf at San Antonio)
Fifty Years;
Lamy to Purcell, San Antonio, 10 March 1851

Odin had built L/SPF/ND, Odin to L/SPF, Galveston, 1851, French

(population after 1849) Ibid.

(Machebeuf visits forts) RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French

(Harney and Lamy)
REPUBLICAN REVIEW,
Albuquerque, 29 Oct 1870; Darton, 37

(Machebeuf's baggage) RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French

102

“Lamy … won't hesitate” TCA, Odin to Blanc, Galveston, 13 May 1851, French

102–04

(overland to El Paso, details variously) Long, O., 174; RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French; Howlett, 158–59; Lamy to Blanc, El Paso, 29 June 1851. French, tr. in Ellis

103

(El Paso road) Map, “Reconnoissances of Routes from San Antonio de Bexar,
El Paso del Norte
, etc.,” by Bvt Lt Col J. E. Johnston, T. Eng, et al., Philadelphia, P. S. Duval's Lith. Steam Press.

104

(El Paso and adjacent villages, details variously) Lamy to Blanc, El Paso, 29 June 1851, French, tr. in Ellis;
Fifty Years
, Lamy to Pur-cell, El Paso del Norte, 29 June 1851; Hine, 30; L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1857, French

105–06

(El Paso, description) Print, Sarony
&
Co., New York, El Paso Public Library

105

(Lamy wrote pastor at Socorro) Darton, 38a

Lamy wrote his official news Warner, 263

106–08

(northward, El Paso-Santa Fe, details variously) RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French; L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1857, French

108

(Zubiría at Tomé) Parish church register, Tomé, N.M.

108–10

(Lamy, reception at Santa Fe, details variously) L/SPF, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1851, French; RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French

108

(Juan Felipe Ortiz, description) Turner, 73

109

(church of St Francis, description) Abert, 40

110

(drought broken) Defouri, 34

113

“continue to exercise” TCA, Blanc to Odin, New Orleans, 23 Jan 1849, French

(Ortiz denies Lamy authority) Salpointe, 196; Segale, 164–65

114

news of Lamy's presence CIN/ND, Martίnez to Zubiría, Taos, 28 Aug 1851, Spanish

114–16

(
Castrense
affair) CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 2 Sept 1851; Abert, 41; RA, Machebeuf to sister, Peña Blanca, N.M., 31 May 1852, French

(The
Castrense
has long since been razed and the stone reredos is installed in John Gaw Meem's beautiful church of Cristo Rey in Santa Fe.)

116

(diocese limits) Howlett, 169

117

(census 1851) Horn, 25–26

“stable of Bethlehem” L/SPF/ND, Lamy to SPF, Santa Fe, 30 Nov 1854, French

“casa Americana”
Defouri, 42

(Palace of the Governors) Davis, 41ft

118

“the most abject” Pvt. A. T. McClure (?), in Smith, G. W., 121

118–19

(New Mexico costumes, customs) Elliott, in Ibid., 122; Davis, 61–64; Salpointe, 221

119

four Protestant ministers L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1851, French (summary copy)

Juan José “told me” Bandelier, I, 256–57

“real masters of the country” Baker, in Smith and Judah, 123–24

$114,050 Frazer, in McCall, 178

to form itself politically Ibid., 21

120

citizens' memorial 31st Congress, 1st session, Executive Document No. 76 (Senate)

121

hostile to the power Defouri, 35

“steamboats and steam cars” Abert, 56

skeptical observer Turner, 89

New Mexican houses Abert, 39; Davis, 50–52

121–22

fandangos Abert, 34–35, 55

122

“troops drunken and reeling” New Orleans
PICAYUNE,
19 Jan 1857, reprint of letter to
ST LOUIS REPUBLICAN

funerals Abert, 34

“all the luxuries” Ibid., 75

(Santa Fe plaza, stores) Ibid., 35, 40

hotel Davis, 42

the local newspaper
SANTA FE REPUBLICAN,
16 Oct 1847

123

Lamy could see Davis, 42

Fort Marcy Frazer, in McCall, 120; Abert, 39, 40; Davis, 42

Sumner … in open conflict Horn, 39–41; Frazer, in McCall, 26; Emmet, 116–19

“Navajoes are a terror” Abert, 43

“the hillsides and the plains” McCall, 89

sale of Mexican children Horn, 55

124

“archaic city-republics” Long, H.

“intelligent, moral, sober” McCall, 85

parish church Abert, 40

125

a later churchman Salpointe, 199–200

126

“not one was supposed” Turner, 75

“diminution of filth” McCall, 85

“kindness of the people” Abert, 71

“mistake to think the country” VPF/TCA, Lamy to P/SPF, summary, 28 Aug 1851, Santa Fe, French (tr.)

“everything needed to be created” Salpointe, 201

127

“state of immorality” P/SPF, Lamy to P/SPF, Santa Fe, 31 Aug 1851, first Annual Report, French

“Mexican national vice” Ibid.

his own census Ibid.

eight or nine thousand L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1851, French (summary)

another six thousand Indians L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 31 Aug 1851, French (summary)

128

first Franciscans L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 31 Mar 1853, French

three times in twenty years L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1857, French

“frightful abuses” CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 2 Sept 1851

“what would you think” Ibid.

“the priests of New Mexico” Davis, 96

“guilty indulgence” VPF, Machebeuf to VPF, Santa Fe, c. 1852, French

a certain Father Lujan Ibid.

(on Gallegos) Abert, 44, 51; Howlett, 191–92; VPF, Machebeuf to VPF, Rome, 1856, French

129–30

(on Martίnez) LaFarge, 44; Howlett, 227–29; Warner, 6gff; Keleher, n 132–33; Montoya, 67

130

regretting Lamy's appointment SF/ND, Martίnez to Zubirίa, Taos, 28 Aug 1851, Spanish

131

in early September CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 2 Sept 1851

written to Lyon Ibid.

as no religious teachers
75 Years
, 25–26

(repair of the
Castrense
) CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 2 Sept 1851

132

“Providence seems” CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Danville, Ohio, 9 July 1847

travelling bag Preserved in treasury, Notre Dame University

133

Les cieux
…
Paroissien

Si Vous êtes
… Ibid.

mail rider Gregg, 266–67

road merely a trail Ibid., 268–69

134

Fort Conrad Prucha, 67

Jornada del Muerto
Gregg, 271

135

Fort Fillmore Prucha, 74

“Pass wine” Gregg, 273

sand hills Ibid., 274

cloudbursts Ibid., 275

two inhabitants for each square mile Ruxton, 284

136

(Mexican ranches) Ibid., 207, 208, 214

“barbarians of the north” Ibid., 288

(Chihuahua, animal life) Ibid., 284–87

136–37

(Chihuahua city) Ibid., 276–77

(Chihuahua city, description) Gregg, 300, 301

137

Apache scalps Ruxton, 278–79

Americans and “Northerners” Almada Ch., 229

in long stretches Ruxton, 225

imagined presence of savages Ibid., 219

138

long cry of the coyote Ibid., 225

midst of an alarum Ibid., 210

(Mexican ranch life) Ibid., 256–57

Arroyo de los Indios Ibid., 237

139

El Chorro Ibid., 201

140

(Zubirίa, born Sonora) Chavez Ar., 187

(Zubirίa, appearance) Portrait, Twitchell; portrait, Read

recalled with gratitude Bartlett, I, 147

expressly ordered by Rome TCA, Blanc to Odin, New Orleans, 23 Jan 1849, French

conversed in Latin Darton, 44

140–41

(Zubirίa had written to Lamy,
et seq.
) VPF, Zubirίa to VPF, Durango, 1 Nov 1851, Spanish

141

had written in protest VPF, Baltimore Council to VPF, Baltimore, 1852, Italian, (summary)

“I knew nothing about it” Salpointe, 198–99

what had caused the confusion VPF, administrative memo, 1853?, Italian (printed document)

141–43

(discussion of territory) VPF, Machebeuf to VPF, Santa Fe, 28 Dec 1859, French

144–45

(Zubirίa's letter to Vatican on territory) VPF, Zubirίa to VPF, Durango, 1 Nov 1851, Spanish

145

(Durango, aspects) Ruxton, 162–64; Gregg, 282

146

Lamy impressed Emory Emory, Report I

147

Rio Grande dry Ronquillo

expected him home RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French

(Lamy reached Santa Fe 10 Jan.) CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 1 Feb 1852

speaking wretched Spanish RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French

148

some of the people Salpointe, 196, 197

“incapable or unworthy” L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, Santa Fe, 28 Aug 1851, French (summary)

the “greatest number” CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 1 Feb 1852

“good face” Ibid.

submit by force Ibid.

the pastor of Pecos Ibid.

restoring the
Castrense
RA, Machebeuf to sister, Santa Fe, 29 Sept 1851, French

149

natives were promised Darton, 44

(Third Order of Penitence) Horgan, GR, 376–77; LaFarge, 149–50

Zubirίa had been horrified Zubirίa, in Chavez,
My Penitente Land

150

(Machebeuf retreat) CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 1 Feb 1852

Navajos at peace Ibid.

doing “pretty well” Ibid.

“ten little boys” Ibid.

on this visit Ibid.

on 5 February 1852 Ibid.

151

seeds, animals, commodities CIN/ND, Martίnez to Zubirίa, Taos, 28 Aug 1851, Spanish

none of such tribute P/SPF/TCA, Lamy to P/SPF, Santa Fe, 1851, French (tr.)

152

(personal misbehavior) VPF, Machebeuf to VPF, Rome, 1856, French

gentle admonitions Howlett, 191

“like spring” CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 1 Feb 1852

Father Roothaan Garraghan (summary)

153

council in Baltimore CIN/ND, Lamy to Purcell, Santa Fe, 1 Feb 1852

(rich Frenchman's house) RA, Machebeuf to sister, Peña Blanca, N.M., 31 May 1852, French

took to the road Ibid.

154

Vicario Andando
Howlett, 239

(hopes to see Murphy 1 May) SLU, Lamy to Murphy, Santa Fe, 1 Feb 1852 (copy)

“pleasure trip on the plains” Meriwether, 147

stage service Darton, 47

155

“instead of becoming settled” Horn, 30

(stages of plains travel) Davis, 6

P. J. De Smet SLU, De Smet to Lamy, St Louis, 11 Nov 1851, French

no continuous rail travel Dunbar, 1088ff

156

council convened Darton, 49

“decided humbly to ask” VPF, F. P. Kenrick to Pius IX, Baltimore, 19 May 1852, Latin

the geographical matter VPF, Baltimore Council to VPF, Baltimore, 1852, Latin

“three small parishes” VPF, Odin to Barnabo, Galveston, 1 Sept 1852, French

157

the twenty-ninth VPF, Baltimore Council to VPF, Baltimore, 1852, Latin

(wrote to the Lyon office) L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, New York, 29 May 1852, French

158

his niece Defouri, 36

set out on 26 June 1852 Barbour, 29

rollope observed Trollope, A., 386

Marryat Marryat, 216ff Thackeray Thackeray, III, 594ff

159

his first concern L/SPF/ND, Lamy to L/SPF, St Louis, 1 July 1852

with courage P/SPF/ND, Lamy to P/SPF, St Louis, 1 July 1852, French (tr.)

put his trust Ibid.

good stroke of business SLU, Lamy legal instrument, St Louis, 10 July 1852

159–60

(orders and purchases) SLU, De Smet record of account, St Louis, 1852

160

Father Pendeprat
Fifty Years
, 102

steamer
Kansas
Defouri, 37

to teach Spanish Barbour, 31

travelled only by daylight Drago, 125

anchoring for the night Ibid., 153

161

cholera was aboard P/SPF/ND, Lamy to P/SPF, Independence, Mo., 28 July 1852, French

(account of journey to Independence) Ibid.; NO/ND, Lamy to Blanc, Blue River Camp, 6 Aug 1862; P/SPF/TCA, Lamy to P/SPF, Missouri, 28 July 1852

162

before moving on Barbour, 30

westward again on 1 August Ibid., 30

8 August Ibid.

Lone Elm Davis, 8

163

wild life, prairies Abert, 6–10

buffalo Salpointe, 203

three hundred Indians Ibid.

163–64

(Spiegelberg episode) Warner, 293–94

164

14 September Barbour, 31

Las Vegas Ibid. Santa Fe on 26 September Ibid., 31

“grand reception” SLU, Lamy to De Smet, Santa Fe, 1 Oct 1852, French (tr.)