They spend a month or two in Mexico while Oliver inspects a mine, but that job ends rather quickly when the mine in question proves to be worthless.Īfter several more years of planning, the family moves to Idaho so Oliver can work on his latest business venture: an ambitious plan to irrigate the desert. Although Leadville is a boomtown when they arrive, the town eventually slows down, and the Wards are forced to move once again. There, Oliver has an assistant named Frank who seems to like Susan an awful lot, too. The Wards spend the next several years trying to figure things out (Oliver even tries to start a cement business), but Oliver is eventually forced to take another mine job in Leadville, Colorado. Susan actually digs it there, but Oliver eventually gets into a beef with his boss, which leads him to abruptly resign from his position. They move to a small mining camp called New Almaden. In about five years, they're married, and Susan moves out west to join Oliver, who works as a mine engineer. Susan and Oliver meet randomly one New Year's Eve and start exchanging letters soon afterward. Susan comes from Milton, New York, where she was heavily involved in the literary scene with her best friends, Augusta and Thomas Hudson.
His grandparents are Susan and Oliver Ward. In order to do that, he plans on holing up in their old home-dubbed the Zodiac Cottage-and writing all day, every day. Lyman Ward is a wheelchair-bound ex-historian who's diving into the most ambitious project of his life: writing a partially fictionalized account of his grandparents' lives.
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