Topeka: F. M. Steves & Sons, 1904.
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Softcover. First edition. Octavo. Printed yellow wrappers. 199, [6]pp., many plates from photographs. Name and stamp of "Ernest E. Mines," corners a little rubbed or bumped, small nicks on the spine, a very good copy. Autobiography of the Kentucky-born rabid temperance advocate best-known for attacking drinking establishments with a hatchet, who changed her name from Carrie to "Carry A. Nation" and trademarked it so it could be used as a slogan. Widowed from an alcoholic husband, she was remarried to a minister and started a branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Kansas, and became increasingly radicalized. Her antics were notorious, and in many ways she helped lay the groundwork for Prohibition.
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