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=== A Westward Branch Takes Root (the 1930s) ===
=== A Westward Branch Takes Root (the 1930s) ===
 
[[Image:Betsy Nash.png|right|333px|link=]] {{Tab}}Betsy Nash, a natural born member of the family and great-granddaughter of Owen Nash, was unusual for a Nash having found herself enjoying urban environments: the sights and sounds which bothered most Garou attracted her while the piles of problems most Nash typically saw in cities, she saw opportunities. When her father tasked her to start a new branch of the family, she set out for the west coast accompanied by her pack and a bevy of kinfolk.<!--[[Image:Hooverville Hospital.png]] -->
[[Image:Betsy Nash.png|right|333px|link=]] {{Tab}}While the Bone Gnawers as a tribe existed in both urban and rural areas, the Nash had typically been of the rural persuasion until the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era of United States history. It was during this time that a notable member of the family, Betsy Nash, migrated from somewhere in the great plains to LA along with her pack and nearly a dozen kinfolk who'd been displaced from their livelihoods tied to farms and ranches suffering from the droughts. They didn't find much luck at first in the City of Angels as unemployment rates were skyrocketing. This was the period that Skid Row came to be and the Nash, while perhaps not remembered as such, were influential in protecting the "citizens" of that area from the city's aggressive policing of the growing homeless population.
 
{{Tab}}Despite being enamored with civilization herself, Bettsy knew that most members of her group wouldn't agree to live within the growing sprawl of Los Angeles proper. In order to compromise her desires against those of her family, she claimed land just outside the city where she and her family set up and became known for their warm, inviting and most importantly safe community.
{{Tab}}Betsy quickly became enamored with the urban environment. When it became clear that the government's state-wide camp program was proving to be mostly ineffective, she supported the supported the building and growth of LA's <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville Hooverville]</span> and made her own home and "hospital" there.
 
{{Tab}}Although able to hold her own in a fight, Bettsy's focus was on the physical and spiritual health of her family over the fighting and killing instinct the Nash had primarily been traditionally known for. Under her leadership, the Nash of LA began to grow a reputation as healers and sources of good counsel. The Nashes in LA came to be either loved or respected and came to flourish for a while despite being considered odd by more traditionally minded members of the Garou Nation in California. For a couple of decades, the southern Californian Nashes grew, producing multiple offshoots of the family around Los Angeles.
[[Image:Hooverville Hospital.png|left|333px|link=]] {{Tab}}It was in her hospital that Betsy birthed her children, including a kinfolk son named Travis who eventually would be the grandfather of [[Valentine|Valentine Nash]] (the current patriarch of the family in LA), in addition to caring for the needs of countless garou, kinfolk and even mortal humans when the city would have written them off.
 
{{Tab}}Unfortunately, Bettsy had settled too close to the encroaching city which began to threaten to engulf the Nashes land. While many in the family espouced aggressive pushback, Bettsy refused in her easy going and good-humored fashion. Content to just exist and provide aid to others, she kept her family from taking extreme efforts to fight the growth of the city resulting in the start of a gradual exodus of family members eastward.
{{Tab}} Family history is unclear how and when Betsy Nash passed away. She was around to be introduced to her son's chosen mate but when Travis looked for her to help with the birth of his first son she could not be found. This was almost as if a hint of things to come because, by the turn of the twenty-first century, there was only a single Nash family left consisting of an older kinfolk and his son Valentine and even they left with Valentine returning sometime after David's death in the 2010s.
{{Tab}}It's unclear how and when Bettsy Nash passed away or what happened to the few Nashes who attempted to make it a go in California still. What is clear, however, is that by the turn of the twenty-first century, there was only a single Nash family left consisting of an older kinfolk and his son [[Valentine]] - after David's death in the 2010s there was only Valentine.

Revision as of 12:50, 12 November 2022

This is a partial of the older version of The Nash Family for a section that is still a major work in progress.

A Westward Branch Takes Root (the 1930s)

    While the Bone Gnawers as a tribe existed in both urban and rural areas, the Nash had typically been of the rural persuasion until the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era of United States history. It was during this time that a notable member of the family, Betsy Nash, migrated from somewhere in the great plains to LA along with her pack and nearly a dozen kinfolk who'd been displaced from their livelihoods tied to farms and ranches suffering from the droughts. They didn't find much luck at first in the City of Angels as unemployment rates were skyrocketing. This was the period that Skid Row came to be and the Nash, while perhaps not remembered as such, were influential in protecting the "citizens" of that area from the city's aggressive policing of the growing homeless population.

    Betsy quickly became enamored with the urban environment. When it became clear that the government's state-wide camp program was proving to be mostly ineffective, she supported the supported the building and growth of LA's Hooverville and made her own home and "hospital" there.

    It was in her hospital that Betsy birthed her children, including a kinfolk son named Travis who eventually would be the grandfather of Valentine Nash (the current patriarch of the family in LA), in addition to caring for the needs of countless garou, kinfolk and even mortal humans when the city would have written them off.

     Family history is unclear how and when Betsy Nash passed away. She was around to be introduced to her son's chosen mate but when Travis looked for her to help with the birth of his first son she could not be found. This was almost as if a hint of things to come because, by the turn of the twenty-first century, there was only a single Nash family left consisting of an older kinfolk and his son Valentine and even they left with Valentine returning sometime after David's death in the 2010s.