| "I know nothing quite like this book, and nothing of the Indian that is at once so authentic and so moving." Wallace Stegner |
The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to proceed from a place of origin as old as the earth.
"The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface
"Written with great dignity, the book has something about it of the timeless, of that long view down which the Kiowa look to their myth-shrouded beginnings."--New York Times
"The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface
"Written with great dignity, the book has something about it of the timeless, of that long view down which the Kiowa look to their myth-shrouded beginnings."--New York Times
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Hardback Editions
December 2001 : Hardback
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October 2001 : Library Binding
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January 1973 : Hardback
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January 1969 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
2007 : Paperback
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2003 : Paperback
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2001 : Paperback
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1993 : Paperback
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January 1991 : Paperback
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1990 : Paperback
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1990 : Paperback
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1987 : Paperback
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1985 : Paperback
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1984 : Paperback
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1983 : Paperback
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June 1980 : Paperback
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February 1977 : Paperback
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1976 : Paperback
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1974 : Paperback
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1973 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1972 : Paperback
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1972 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1970 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1970 : Paperback
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1969 : Paperback
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August 2011 : Kindle edition
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