The Way to Rainy Mountain

Geographical:
" Yellowstone, it seemed to me, was the top of the world, a region of deep lakes and dark timber, canyons and waterfalls." (p.58)
"A dark mist lay over the Black Hills, and the land was like iron." (p.59)
Historical
"For more than 100 years they had controlled the open range from the Smoky Hill river to the red.." (p.57)
"...the Kiowas backed down away forever from the medicine tree. That was July 20, 1890, at the Great Bend of the Washita." (p.59-60)
Personal
"Her forebears came down from the high country in western Montana nearly 3 centeries ago." (p.57)
"When i was a child I played with my cousins outside, where the lamp light fell upon the ground and the singing of the old people rose up around us and carried away into the darkness." (p.61)