Mar 12, 2019 · Carrie Nation, who actually did smash saloons with her signature hatchet, was an iconic figure in the history of prohibition and temperance movement.

Carrie Nation continued her saloon destruction campaign in Kansas, her fame spreading through her growing arrest record. After she led a raid in Wichita, Kansas , Nation's husband joked that she should use a hatchet next time for maximum damage.

Jul 11, 2018 · Her acts of violence against saloons became known as “hatchetations.” Prizefighter John L. Sullivan, “the Boston Strong Boy,” reportedly broke down out of fear when Carrie Nation entered his New York saloon and he converted to a staunch prohibitionist. Such stuff was the material of legends.

May 13, 2022 · Carry A. Nation, 'Kansas saloon smasher,' came to Holly on August 28, 1908…..Wielding her umbrella, she strode through the alley's bars bellowing about the 'Demon Rum' and its sins". She sure did…and reportedly smashed up the Holly Hotel's saloon, even though the marker doesn’t mention that.

Dec 4, 2024 · "Saloon-wrecker" Carrie Nation barrels through Kansas bars wielding a hatchet in the name of temperance. Run out and beaten by locals, Nation lands in thirteen jails across the state but stubbornly continues her violent assault of saloons.

Summary: Three short films recreating Carry Nation's activities during the years 1901-1902. The short films are: "Carrie Nation Smashes a Saloon" (November 11, 1902), and it shows a bartender serving a drink to a man, when two women, obviously in a high dudgeon, enter from stage right.

May 6, 2020 · Carrie Nation visited here back in 1908 and smashed up the saloon in the Holly Hotel. Carrie (1846–1911) was a radical member of the temperance movement and vehemently against alcohol or anyone who drank it. She would travel from town-to-town smashing saloons with her trusty hatchet.

Obedient to the revelation, Nation gathered a number of rocks—"smashers,"—and proceeded to Dobson's Saloon. Announcing, "Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard's fate," began to destroy the saloon's stock with her cache of rocks.

Mar 16, 2021 · On June 5, 1900, a woman dressed in black stepped into a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. The towering figure, standing over 6 feet tall, carried an armload of heavy packages wrapped in brown paper.

Aug 22, 2016 · Carrie (1846–1911) was a radical member of the temperance movement, vehemently against alcohol, anyone who drank alcohol and would travel from town-to-town smashing saloons with her trusty hatchet.