- tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives
- focus on the Shimerdas, whose eldest daughter is named Antonia
- The book's narrator, Jim Burden, arrives in Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as the Shimerdas, as he is going to live with his grandparents after his parents have died
- Jim develops strong feelings for Antonia, something between a crush and a filial bond
Death Comes for the Archbishiop
- Bishop Jean Marie Latour travels from Cincinnati to New Mexico to take charge of the newly established diocese of New Mexico, and is assisted by his childhood friend Father Joseph Vaillant
- The journey to New Mexico takes an entire year and he spends the rest of his life establishing the Roman Catholic church in New Mexico
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