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.