The Aviator and the Showman,' Laurie Gwen Shapiro's vibrant account of Amelia Earhart's union with a publicity-seeking ...

Known as the ‘Hatchet House,’ temperance advocate Carrie Nation lived her last years in Eureka Springs Notorious temperance advocate Carrie Nation bought her last home in Eureka Springs May 10 ...

Nation was a radical teetotaler who made headlines around the turn of the 20th century by attacking alcohol establishments with a hatchet.

In 1910, the hatchet-wielding, bar-smashing temperance crusader Carrie Nation came to Butte. At that time Butte had 275 saloons; even Mayor Charles Nevin owned a bar.

In 1900, a former schoolteacher named Carrie Nation walked into a bar in Kiowa, Kansas, proclaimed, “Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard’s fate,” and proceeded to hurl bricks and ...

When Mrs. Maude Wilson heard about this, she behaved not unlike the late Carrie Nation. Seizing a hatchet, she rushed to the speakeasy, swung high, swung low, shattered a mirror, windows, gin glasses.

Like Mrs. Nation herself, her first biographers tended to take their subject overseriously, as a moral force whose famous hatchet splintered a national institution that was richly deserving of ...

Her own recollection of the adventures with Carrie Nation are chronicled in her 1928 book, “The Hatchet Crusade,” a copy of which is in the collection of the Upland library.