In 2001 I dedicated my horse of the year, the Pony Soldier (1st horse on right) to my dad who died in October of 2000 from Cancer. 

2002 & 2003 I picked Historical Native American Warriors & Tribes I was familiar with, Crazy Horse (Sioux) & the Apache Geronimo. 

2004 brought me the Cherokee, Sequoyah.

2005-I had just moved back to Wisconsin in October of 2004. I had been living in Utah living with my boyfriend for the past few years but things weren't going well. It was a bad breakup but luckily I had a busy fall show schedule so that kept me busy. In the spring of 2005 I decided it was time to take the steps necessary to get a website going. I knew nothing about websites so I hired a friend of friend to build my website for me. My original idea for the theme of my website had to do with the four-directions because I use it so much in my work. Unfortunately the person I hired was not as capable of seeing my vision through as I had hoped. It was a bad experience but conflict teaches us lessons and seems to strengthen us in some way. I took control and with determination I learned to do my own website.  I chose to honor myself, my strengths and all tribes with my Four-Direction Horse.

2006 was inspired by a photograph of an Arapaho "Ghost Dance" Dress I saw in one of my many books, "Art of the American Indian Frontier." I was drawn to the Colors (Red & Gold) before I even read what the symbols or the meaning of the ghost dance.

2007-The Comanche Chief Quannah Parker was long in coming as I had a client who had requested a Quannah Parker horse a few years back. I always remembered her request but had to wait for it to really feel it was time. Finally in 2007 it came to me. I actually made two horses to honor Quannah Parker.

2008-It wasn't until the end of August, early Sept that I realized what horse I was going to do. I had decided I wanted to honor a woman warrior this year. I had done a bit of research on women but I went to my computer for some help. I came across a link regarding a warrior woman named, Buffalo Calf Road Woman, aka "Brave Woman". The more I read about her the more I knew she would be my choice for the year. I didn't know it at the time but my mom would die in October and the choice of a horse honoring a woman would take on more than I originally thought. Please go to link above to read more.

2008-All of the sudden it dawned on me that 2008 marked my 10 year anniversary of doing horses. I decided even though it was late in the year when, it came to me, I would create a horse celebrating the 10 years. That is how Mountain FEather came to be. Again, to read more about this or any horse in this Tribal Horse Collection click links above.