Two Journeys to Rainy Mountain: The Road and the Memory

N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain braids two journeys:

1. Physical — The author drives from Oklahoma to Rainy Mountain (Kiowa sacred site), tracing his grandmother's life and the tribe's migration from Montana to the Southern Plains.
2. Spiritual — He reconstructs Kiowa oral history, myth, and memory—Sun Dance, Tai-me, the buffalo's departure—through three voices: ancestral, historical, personal.

The landscape triggers the story; the story sanctifies the landscape. Each chapter: legend, history, memoir. The destination is both a hill in Kiowa County and a state of remembrance.