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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)

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.