The Way to Rainy Mountain seems like an epic journey. Some Questions You Might Ask takes on a matter of huge importance to many people. What gives them their strength is the way the authors wield description. A certain bias towards the things an author loves is probably unavoidable so it is the subject of each reading that decides its objectivity. N. Scott Momaday does not try to be unbiased; he uses description to show how he feels about his subject, about the land his people once ruled. Momaday writes about his people’s history and its relation to his grandmother. He seems proud of the Kiowas when he describes them as “a lordly and dangerous society.” Each description of what he sees is colored by his love of his grandmother and his pride