Title: RELUCTANT DAWN
Subtitle: A Biogaphy of Padre Antonio José Martinez, Cura de Taos
Description: It is a readable and accurate biography of the Priest (Cura) of Taos, based on primary sources, especially the 1877 Spanish (unpublished) manuscript Biografia del Presbitero Antonio Jose Martinez, Cura de Taos by Santiago Valdez.  This work is located at the Huntingon Library (Ritch Collection) in San Marino, near Los Angeles.  RELUCTANT DAWN fairly relates the accomplishments of Padre Martinez and the controversies that marked his facinating life.  His peers in the U.S. Territoria Assembly, upon his death inh 1867, called him the "Honor of His Homeland," yet the last decade of his life was  shadowed by ecclesiastical censure.
Subjects: clergy, church, New Mexico, Bishop Lamy, Willa Cather, education, school for girls, law school, seminary, politics, education, journalism
Places: New Mexico - Taos, Santa Fe, Abiquiu
People: Padre Martinez, Charles Bent, Steven Watts Kearny, John Rowland, William Workman, Kit Carson, Julian Chavez, J.M. Gallegos
Time periods: 1793-1867