Navajo Route One

The road where Joe Leaphorn is traveling with the Begay boy in custody when he first encounters the man he later learns is James Tso.

Short Mountain Trading Post

The out-of-the-way trading post owned by McGinnis where Leaphorn first encounters Theodora Adams.

Tuba City

Where the substation of the police department is and where Leaphorn reports after having lost Begay.

Arizona State

Where Leaphorn had studied anthropology.

Mud Dinee

The clan of the Listening Woman.

Albuquerque

Where Leaphorn goes to get more information about the murders and the helicopter case from the FBI.

Buffalo Society

The society that's an off-shoot of the American Indian Movement and to which James Tso claims to be a member.

Lake Powell

Where it's believed the helicopter carrying the money from the Santa Fe robbery crashed and sank.

Rome

Where Father Benjamin Tso and Theodora Adams met.

Olds Prairie Murders