Nation, or Hatchet Granny,[2][3] was an American who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition.

[4] In 1890, Nation founded a sewing circle in Medicine Lodge, Kansas to make clothing for the poor as well as prepare meals for them on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[8] She described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like",[9] and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars.

[12] In addition to their financial difficulties, many of Moore's family members suffered from mental illness, her mother at times having delusions.

Gloyd moved there with her mother-in-law and Charlien, and attended the Normal Institute in Warrensburg, Missouri, earning her teaching certificate in July 1872.

[17][18] The family purchased a 1,700 acre (690 ha) cotton plantation on the San Bernard River in Brazoria County, Texas.

As a result, he was forced to move back north to Medicine Lodge, Kansas, in 1889, where he found work preaching at a Christian church and Carrie ran a successful hotel.

Her methods escalated from simple protests to serenading saloon patrons with hymns accompanied by a hand organ, to greeting bartenders with pointed remarks such as, "Good morning, destroyer of men's souls.

The words, "Go to Kiowa," were spoken in a murmuring, musical tone, low and soft, but "I'll stand by you," was very clear, positive and emphatic.

"[10]Responding to the revelation, Nation gathered several rocks – "smashers", she called them – and proceeded to Dobson's Saloon on June 7.

After she similarly destroyed two other saloons in Kiowa, a tornado hit eastern Kansas, which Nation took as divine approval of her actions.

[9] Carrie Nation continued her saloon destruction campaign in Kansas, her fame spreading through her growing arrest record.

After she led a raid in Wichita, Kansas, Nation's husband joked that she should use a hatchet next time for maximum damage.

Later in life Nation exploited her name by appearing in vaudeville in the United States[9] and music halls in Great Britain.

[32] Seeking profits elsewhere, Nation sold photographs of herself, collected lecture fees, and marketed miniature souvenir hatchets.

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union later erected a stone inscribed "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition, She Hath Done What She Could" and the name "Carry A.

[citation needed] In 1918, a drinking fountain was erected in Nation's memory by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

[37] One myth is that the fountain was nearly destroyed at one time by a beer truck hitting it; Jamie Tracy, a curator of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, has not found any evidence for this ironic tale.

In the satirical musical melodrama Beyond the Valley of the Dolls the band the Kelly Affair change their name to the Carrie Nations.

There is the play, Carry Nation; it ran on Broadway and starred American film actress Esther Dale.

[43] In "Bar Fights" (Episode 3, Season 4) of Comedy Central's Drunk History, Nation is portrayed by Vanessa Bayer.

[44] A fictionalized version of Nation is portrayed in the musical Queen of the Mist, wherein she crosses paths with Annie Edson Taylor.

[46] In 1977 Gary Dahl, inventor of the Pet Rock, used his proceeds from that fad to renovate and open a bar in Los Gatos, California which he jokingly named "Carrie Nation's Saloon.