Carry Nation

Next were Carry Nation, Billy Sunday, and on and on -- into the present.

Stanton Peele: Saying Bad Things About Booze -- Propaganda as Science Stanton Peele 2011

For beyond-the-pale rhetoric it's hard to beat Carry Nation, the God-fearing temperance zealot she used a hatchet (and hammers, rocks and bricks) to attack saloons in the first decade of the 20th century who celebrated the assassination of President William O. McKinley in 1901 by calling him a "whey-faced tool of Republican thieves, rummies and devils."

Temperance Tantrum 2010

Kansas had been officially dry since 1880, but enough saloons were operating under the protection of corrupt or lenient politicians for Carry Nation to have fashioned a career from their presence.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Kansas had been officially dry since 1880, but enough saloons were operating under the protection of corrupt or lenient politicians for Carry Nation to have fashioned a career from their presence.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Holland implies that it was everyone's jolly right to run about merrily tanked all day, and a pity when Carry Nation, public health busybodies and other killjoys swept in to ruin the party.

Molly Laas: One Shot Too Many 2008

"Feminism, with its solemn Carry Nation repressiveness, does not see what is for men the eroticism or fun element in rape ..."

An Intellectual Amazon 2008

Among the legendary, tough female characters of the West, the Indian fighters, mule-skinners, brassy brawlers of the saloon, one was holier-than-thou, brandishing bibles and lethal weapons - the temperance crusader, Carry Nation.

Diana Meehan: Myth America 2008

Western legend's female reformers like Carry Nation try to change individuals, not the system.

Diana Meehan: Myth America 2008

Dec. 27 1900: A 54-year-old Sunday school teacher named Carry Nation walks into the Hotel Carey Saloon in Wichita and, using a hatchet,, smashes its expensive Venetian mirror, a large nude painting of Cleopatra, and countless bottles of booze.

December 2007 2007

Dec. 27 1900: A 54-year-old Sunday school teacher named Carry Nation walks into the Hotel Carey Saloon in Wichita and, using a hatchet,, smashes its expensive Venetian mirror, a large nude painting of Cleopatra, and countless bottles of booze.

Packing a Hatchet Never Ends Well 2007