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• Gilbert Gant settles in America

• Oliver Gant is born

• Oliver has a failed business, marriage, and begins to drink

• Oliver travels finally moving to Altamont

• Oliver meets and marries Eliza Pentland

• Oliver has a failed partnership with Will Pentland

• Several children are born from the marriage

• Oliver receives his first treatment for alcoholism

Part 1, Chapter 3 | Part 1, Chapter 4

• Eliza becomes pregnant again

• Gant's drinking gets worse

• Steve begins a routine of getting his father and bringing him home

• Helen begins a lifetime of waiting on her father

• Eugene is born

• Eugene is kicked in the head by a horse

Part 1, Chapter 5 | Part 1, Chapter 6

• Steve begins to follow in his father's footsteps

• Gant's drinking improves somewhat

• Eliza goes to St. Louis to open a boardinghouse at the World's Fair

• Eliza makes her boys work at the fairgrounds

• Grover catches typhoid and dies

• Gant does many good...

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