15 points! in the epilogue, momaday states, "but indeed the golden age of the kiowas had been short-lived, ninety or a hundred years, say, from about 1740. the culture would persist for a while in decline, until about 1875, but then it would be gone, and there would be very little material evidence that it had ever been. yet it is within the reach of memory still, though tenuously now, and moreover it is even defined in a remarkable rich and living verbal tradition which demands to be preserved for it's own sake." what does this reveal about what momaday may have hoped to accomplish through composing the way to rainy mountain? question 23 options: to provide his audience with an entertaining piece about the history of the kiowa. to provide material evidence of the traditions of the kiowa through a written account of their history. to create a map of the landscape the kiowa once traveled. to persuade his audience that they kiowa history is the most compelling of all native american tribes.

The Way to Rainy Mountain is a book by N. Scott Momaday about the travels of the Kiowa tribe from Montana to Fort Sill. He tells the story through three different points of view that help understand the history of his people and how he rediscovered it.

So the answer is To provide material evidence of the traditions of the Kiowa through a written account of their history.

the underlined phrase is an example of : understatment

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.