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Chavez - A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico, Facsimile of 1989 Edition (Paperback)
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Chavez - A Distinctive American Clan of New Mexico, Facsimile of 1989 Edition (Paperback)
Series: Southwest Heritage
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He has been called a renaissance man and New Mexico's foremost
twentieth-century humanist by biographer Ellen McCracken. Any way
you measure his career, Fray Angelico Chavez was an unexpected
phenomenon in the wide and sunlit land of the American Southwest.
In the decades following his ordination as a Franciscan priest in
1937, Chavez performed the difficult duties of an isolated
backcountry pastor. His assignments included Hispanic villages and
Indian pueblos. As an army chaplain in World War II, he accompanied
troops in bloody landings on Pacific islands, claiming afterwards
that because of his small stature, Japanese bullets always missed
him. In time, despite heavy clerical duties, Fray Angelico managed
to become an author of note, as well as something of an artist and
muralist. Upon all of his endeavors, one finds, understandably, the
imprint of his religious perspective. During nearly seventy years
of writing, he published almost two dozen books. Among them were
novels, essays, poetry, biographies, and histories. All true
aficionado's of the American Southwest's history and culture will
profit by collecting and reading the significant body of work left
to us by the remarkable Fray Ange1ico Chavez. Sunstone Press is now
bringing back into print some of these rare titles.
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