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Book 4, Chapter 1 Summary
Past and present merge as Lyman Ward tells his son, Rodman, about his work on the book. Lyman relates that his grandfather completed his project in Blacktail Gulch and took a train from Cheyenne to Denver. On the train, Oliver meets a man who asks him to study and survey a mine he owns in Leadville, Colorado to establish his claim in court. The narrator interjects his view that Lyman is interested in how his grandparents clung together like two particles rolling down a hill into their future until they reached their angle of repose. As father and son discuss the project, Rodman tells Lyman that his ex-wife, Ellen, would like to come and visit him. Rigidly, Lyman tells his son he has nothing to say to Ellen while confessing to himself that he sees how much he is like his grandfather in his relationship to Susan Ward.
Book 4, Chapter 1 Analysis
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