St. Mawr
by D. H. Lawrence
Lou Witt, the protagonist of the story, rejects his sterile marriage and Britain, which was fragile, cynical after the First World War. The feeling of alienation is associated with his meeting with Saint-Moor, an extremely spiritual stallion whose name gives this story its name. He eventually settles on a remote farm located high in the mountains of New Mexico near Taos. Lawrence wrote much of this short novel, and in the summer of 1924 he spent five months at what became known as D. H. Lawrence Farm, a property that he and his wife Frida had purchased from Mabel Dodge Luhan earlier that year.
