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Author:
Harvey, Bonnie C.
Title:
Carry A. Nation : saloon smasher and prohibitionist / Bonnie Carman Harvey.
Publisher:
Enslow Publishers,
Copyright Date:
c2002
Description:
128 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Nation, Carry Amelia,--1846-1911.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Reformers.
Prohibition.
Women--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Saloon smashing -- 2. Childhood -- 3. Blushing bride at twenty-one -- 4. Life with an alcoholic -- 5. Marriage to David Nation -- 6. Making of a crusader -- 7. The prize of Wichita -- 8. Fearless crusader -- 9. Carry Nation gains national fame -- 10. Lasting accomplishments -- 11. Carry Nation's legacy.
Summary:
Examines the life of Carry Nation, whose destruction of saloons and other businesses that sold liquor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century won her both praise and criticism from fellow prohibitionists and temperance workers.
Series:
Historical American biographies
ISBN:
9780766019072
0766019071
OCLC:
(OCoLC)48550911
LCCN:
2001007431
Locations:
MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)
KIPB845 -- Hospers Public Library (Hospers)

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