El Salto del Agua (the jumping water) waterfall and the large cave behind it have an esteemed literary legacy. It inspired D. H. Lawrence’s 1924 short story “The Woman Who Rode Away,” and it was also the model for the Stone Lips cave in Willa Cather’s novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, published in 1927. During the summer months, the waterfall may dwindle to a trickle, but with the summer monsoons it can burst forth. During winter the waterfall forms an ice wall. Willa Cather and her partner Edith Lewis…
