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Carry Nation earned fame as a hatchet-wielding woman who smashed bars and other places that served liquor.

Born on this day 177 years ago, Carry Nation was infamous for wreaking havoc on barrooms in the name of temperance.

For more than a century, Carry Nation's temperance-era rampages have inspired mockery. What we've missed, though, is the story of a disenfranchised person getting fed up and demanding more from the leaders charged with protecting her. "You wouldn't give me the vote," she said, "so I had to use a rock."

Heritage Images/Getty Images 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. “I don’t want to strike you, but I am going to break up this den of vice,” she told the owner, just before chucking one of her packages behind the bar, shattering the large mirror and toppling liquor bottles. The men fled, leaving the woman to meticulously smash every bot...

Free Essay: Carry Amelia Nation was born on November 25, 1846 in Garrard County, Kentucky. Her parents, Mary Campbell Moore and George Moore, soon relocated...