In June of 1900 Carry Nation, 54 years old, a preachers wife and devout Christian, arrived in the unassuming town of Kiowa, Kansas. Filling her hands with rocks and bricks she marched into several drinking establishments and began smashing the bottles behind the bars. After years of dedication to the Temperance Movement, Carry felt that god had called upon her to take this next, drastic step in the battle against the sinful destructions of alcohol.
She had been raised in a strict and patriarchal household. She had spent most of her life trying to be the quiet and submissive woman society expected her to be. But having survived heartbreak, loss, financial ruin, and years on the edge of civilization she would come to represent the strong woman-hood of a new era.
Armed with her faith, determination (and eventually a hatchet), Carry Nation would march into the last bastion of male exclusivity: the saloon, and smash with righteous glee.
