Bibliograph

Carry A. Nation, saloon smasher and prohibitionist, Bonnie Carman Harvey

Type

Label

Carry A. Nation, saloon smasher and prohibitionist, Bonnie Carman Harvey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Carry A. Nation

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

48550911

Responsibility statement

Bonnie Carman Harvey

Series statement

Historical American biographies

Sub title

saloon smasher and prohibitionist

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification