The Whittaker Saga

Having competed once, Anna has got a taste for the thrill, and so for the next few months she enters her horses into competition regularly. She focuses on the stallions, leaving Ranger to spend time with her foal. Both Starbuck and Crimson loves competing, and have quite a few wins as they rise through the ranks of ever more difficult competitions. With the competitions, Anna's lust for adventure is awakened again. She reads with eagerness about Amelia Earhart becoming the first person to successfully fly solo from Hawaii to California, and about Caroline Mikkelsen becoming the first woman to set foot on Antarctica. She cannot help but to wonder what it would feel like to fly. To soar above the clouds like men were never supposed to do. Yet at home, there is plenty of things to keep her busy. The horses need constant care, grooming and training. Anna also takes care to teach Thomas how to handle the horses. She even manages to persuade Johnny to try riding more often, though he...

As 1934 rolls around, the mood in the Sinclair-Lemotte house is a bit hampered by the events of the previous year, but everyone still tries to remember the things they are grateful for. Their five healthy children, each other, the house they have, the animals on the farm. And life is better for them than it is for many others. The depression still holds the countryside hostage, and severe dust storms across the midwest, eroding away the very soil in the ground and making farms essentially worthless, only makes matters worse as a new waive of migrants arrive looking for work after loosing everything they had. One evening Anna sees a random stranger going through the trash outside looking for food. Something must be done to help people! Luckily the New Deal has started, and the government try to help with government funded projects, work programs, and relief funds. While Nash is mostly keeping an eye on the many banking reforms, hoping it will stabilize the market enough to give him ...