![]() ![]() ![]() Susan Ward left a promising future in New York to follow her husband, fully expecting to someday return to the East and resume her art career. A mining engineer, he believed the West held unexplored opportunities, and he moves his family to different areas there in search of a good life as he tries to succeed in a rough environment. Lyman first introduces his grandfather, Oliver Ward, as an honest man searching for a place to focus on his life’s work. Estranged from his wife and bitter about his life, he makes a decision to return to his family home in Grass Valley, California, and write a biography about his grandmother, Susan Ward, who made her own trip west in the 1800s. Fifty-eight year old Lyman Ward, the narrator of the story, is a retired historian, wheel chair bound with a painful bone disease. ![]()
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