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{{short description|American temperance advocate (1846–1911)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Carrie Nation
| image              = Carrie Nation by White Studio.jpg
| image_size         = 
| caption            = Nation in 1903
| birth_name         = Caroline Amelia Moore
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1846|11|25}}
| birth_place        = [[Garrard County, Kentucky]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1911|6|9|1846|11|25|mf=yes}}
| death_place        = [[Leavenworth, Kansas]], U.S.
| resting_place      = Belton Cemetery<br> [[Belton, Missouri]]
| other_names        = Carry A. Nation
| spouse             = {{ubl
|{{marriage|Charles Gloyd|1867|1869|reason=died}}
|{{marriage|David A. Nation|1874|1901|reason=divorced}}
}}
| children           = 1
| relatives          = [[Carleton Beals]], grandson
| education          = [[University of Central Missouri|Normal Institute]]
}}

'''Caroline Amelia Nation''' (November 25, 1846{{spnd}}June 9, 1911), often referred to as '''Carrie''', '''Carry Nation''',<ref>1850 United States Federal Census; this census lists the Moore family, and includes then 3-year-old Caroline. Carrie or Carry were nicknames.</ref> '''Carrie A. Nation''', or '''Hatchet Granny''',<ref>{{Cite web |title=The ghosts at Great Dane Pub & Brewery |url=https://www.cbs58.com/news/the-ghosts-at-great-dane-pub-brewery |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=CBS58 |language=en |quote=A frequent guest of the hotel was Caroline Amelia Nation, often referred to Carrie Nation or Hatchet Granny, who was a member of the temperance movement and torn up bars with her hatchet.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Star-Gazette Subscription Offers, Specials, and Discounts |url=https://subscribe.stargazette.com/restricted?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stargazette.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2F2024%2F01%2F12%2Fhatchet-wielding-temperance-leader-carrie-nations-impact-on-elmira%2F72097141007%2F&gps-source=CPROADBLOCKDH&gca-cat=p&slug=restricted&gnt-eid=control |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=subscribe.stargazette.com |quote=Famed temperance advocate Carrie Nation, known as “Hatchet Granny,” visited Elmira twice in the early 20th century.}}</ref> was an American and a radical member of the [[temperance movement]], which opposed alcohol consumption before the advent of [[Prohibition in the United States|Prohibition]]. Nation is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet. She married  David Nation in 1874. She was previously known by either her birth name, '''Carrie Moore''' and, after her first marriage in 1867, as '''Carrie Gloyd'''. <!--It's surely worth working these in in ''some'' way, right?-->

Nation was known as "Mother Nation" for the charity and religious work she did.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/n/nation/|title=Carry A. Nation – Historic Missourians – The State Historical Society of Missouri|website=shsmo.org|access-date=April 16, 2018|archive-date=June 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603001209/http://shsmo.org/historicmissourians/name/n/nation/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Like many in the temperance movement, she considered drunkenness a cause of many of society's problems. She attempted to help people in prison.<ref name=":2" /> In 1890, Nation founded a [[sewing circle]] in [[Medicine Lodge, Kansas|Medicine Lodge]], Kansas to make clothing for the poor as well as prepare meals for them on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=11121&itemid=WE52&articleId=202493|title=Nation, Carry|last=Hamilton|first=Neil|date=2017|website=American Social Leaders and Activists, Second Edition}}</ref>
In 1901, Nation established a shelter for wives and children of alcoholics in Kansas City, Missouri. This shelter would later be described as an "early model for today's battered women's shelter".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=11121&itemid=WE52&articleId=164303|title=Nation, Carry|last=Martinez|first=Donna|date=2016|website=American Women Leaders and Activists, Second Edition}}</ref>

In her autobiography, ''The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation'' (1908), she also strongly opposed [[Freemasonry]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Carry A. Nation – Part 4 – Kansas Historical Society |url=https://www.kshs.org/p/carry-a-nation-part-4/10592 |website=www.kshs.org |publisher=Kansas Historical Foundation |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> Nation was also concerned about tight clothing for women; she refused to wear a [[corset]] and urged women not to wear them because of their harmful effects on vital organs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kshs.org/p/online-exhibits-carry-a-nation-part-5/10593|title=Carry A. Nation|publisher=Kansas Historical Society|access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> She described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like",<ref name=mcqueen>{{cite book|last=McQueen|first=Keven|others=Ill. by Kyle McQueen|title=Offbeat Kentuckians: Legends to Lunatics|chapter=Carrie Nation: Militant Prohibitionist|year=2001|publisher=McClanahan Publishing House |location=[[Kuttawa, Kentucky]]|isbn=0-913383-80-5}}</ref> and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars.<ref name="KSHS">{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/carry/smashing.htm|title=Carry's Inspiration for Smashing|publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|access-date=January 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061222074733/http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/carry/smashing.htm|archive-date=December 22, 2006}}</ref>

==Early life and first marriage==
Caroline Amelia Moore{{efn|1=The spelling of Nation's first name varies; both "Carrie" and "Carry" are considered correct. Official records say "Carrie", which Nation used for most of her life; the name "Carry" was used by her father in the family Bible. Upon beginning her campaign against liquor in the early 20th century, she adopted the name ''' Carry A. Nation''', saying it meant "Carry A Nation for Prohibition."<ref name="umsystem1911">{{cite web | url=http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/n/nation/ | title=Carry A. Nation (1846–1911) | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | access-date=April 6, 2014 | archive-date=April 7, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407101809/http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/n/nation/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> After gaining her notoriety, Carrie officially registered "Carry" as a trademark.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Feminist Frontiers: Women Who Shaped the Midwest|last=Johnson|first=Yvonne|publisher=Truman State University Press|year=2010|location=Kirksville, Missouri}}</ref>}} was born in [[Garrard County, Kentucky]], to George Moore and Mary Campbell.<ref name="use">{{cite book|last=Nation|first=Carry|title=The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/crntn10.txt|format=TXT|access-date=January 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090626205915/http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/crntn10.txt|archive-date=June 26, 2009}}</ref> Her father was a successful farmer, stock trader, and slaveholder<ref name=":0"/> of [[Ulster Scots people|Ulster Scot]] descent.{{cn|date=January 2025}} During much of her early life, her health was poor, and her family experienced financial setbacks.<ref name=":1"/> The family moved several times in Kentucky and finally settled in [[Belton, Missouri]], in 1854.<ref name=":0"/>

In addition to their financial difficulties, many of Moore's family members had [[mental illnesses]]; her mother, at times, had [[delusions]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://www.thewildwest.org/cowboys/wildwestlegendarywomen/205-carrynation|title=Carry Amelia Moore Nation|publisher=The Wild West|access-date=June 6, 2013|archive-date=November 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181101011403/http://www.thewildwest.org/cowboys/wildwestlegendarywomen/205-carrynation|url-status=dead}}</ref> There is speculation that the family did not stay in one place long because of rumors about Mary Moore's mental state. Some writers have speculated that Mary believed she was [[Queen Victoria]] because of her finery and social airs. Mary lived in an [[insane asylum]] in [[Nevada, Missouri]], from August 1890 until her death on September 28, 1893. Mary was put in the asylum through legal action by her son, Charles, although there is suspicion that Charles instigated the lawsuit because he owed Mary money.<ref name=":0"/>

The family moved to Texas as Missouri became involved in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] in 1862. George did not fare well in Texas, and he moved his family back to Missouri.<ref name=":0"/> The family returned to [[High Grove Farm]] in [[Cass County, Missouri|Cass County]]. When the [[Union Army]] ordered them to evacuate their farm, they moved to Kansas City. Carrie nursed wounded soldiers after a raid on [[Independence, Missouri|Independence]], Missouri. The family again returned to their farm when the Civil War ended.<ref name=":0"/>

In 1865, Carrie met Charles Gloyd, a young physician who had fought for the Union and was a severe alcoholic.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/carryanationrete00grac|url-access=registration|title=Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=2001|access-date=April 6, 2014|last=Grace|first=Fran|page=[https://archive.org/details/carryanationrete00grac/page/39 39]|isbn=0253108330}}</ref> Gloyd taught school near the Moores' farm while deciding where to establish his medical practice. He eventually settled in [[Holden, Missouri]], and asked Moore to marry him. Moore's parents objected to the union because they believed he was addicted to alcohol, but the marriage proceeded.<ref name=":0"/> They were married on November 21, 1867, and separated shortly before the birth of their daughter, Charlien, on September 27, 1868. Gloyd died in 1869 of alcoholism.<ref name= umsystem1911/>

Influenced by the death of her husband, Carrie Gloyd developed a passionate activism against alcohol. With the proceeds from selling her inherited land (as well as that of her husband's estate), she built a small house in Holden. Gloyd moved there with her mother-in-law and Charlien, and attended the [[University of Central Missouri|Normal Institute]] in [[Warrensburg, Missouri]], earning her teaching certificate in July 1872. Gloyd taught at a school in Holden for four years.<ref name= umsystem1911/> She obtained a history degree and studied the influence of Greek philosophers on American politics.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Foner|first1=Eric|title=Give Us Liberty|publisher=Norton|location=New York|page=850}}</ref>

==Second marriage and "call from God"==
[[File:CarrieNation.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Carrie Nation after her marriage to David Nation on December 30, 1874 (age {{age|1846|11|25|1874|12|30}})]]
In 1874, Carrie Gloyd married David A. Nation, an attorney, minister, newspaper journalist, and father, 19 years her senior.<ref name="OHS"/><ref>{{cite web|author1=McMillen, Margot Ford|author2=Trout, Carlynn|url=http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/n/nation/index.html|title=Carry A. Nation (1846–1911)|publisher=State Historical Society of Missouri|work=Famous Missourians|access-date=June 6, 2013|archive-date=March 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328151750/http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/n/nation/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The family purchased a 1,700 [[acre]] (690&nbsp;ha) cotton plantation on the [[San Bernard River]] in [[Brazoria County, Texas]]. As neither knew much about farming, the venture was ultimately unsuccessful.<ref name="use"/> They moved to [[Brazoria, Texas|Brazoria]] for David Nation to practice law. In about 1880, they moved to Columbia (now [[East Columbia, Texas|East Columbia]]) to operate the hotel owned by A. R. and Jesse W. Park.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texas-settlement.org/markers/brazoria/32.html|publisher=Texas Settlement Region|title=Carry Nation's Hotel|access-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512031356/http://www.texas-settlement.org/markers/brazoria/32.html|archive-date=May 12, 2008}}</ref> Her name is on the roll of Columbia Methodist Church in [[West Columbia, Texas|West Columbia]]. She lived at the hotel with her daughter, Charlien Gloyd, "Mother Gloyd" (Carrie's first mother-in-law), and David's daughter, Lola. Carrie Nation's husband also operated a saddle shop just southwest of this site. The family soon moved to [[Richmond, Texas]], to operate a hotel.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/nation-carry-amelia-moore|publisher=[[Texas State Historical Association]]|title=Nation, Carry Amelia Moore (1846–1911)|access-date=October 24, 2020}}</ref>

David Nation became involved in the [[Jaybird–Woodpecker War]]. 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.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

[[File:Texas Historical Marker for the Site of Carry Nation's Hotel in East Columbia, Texas.jpg|thumb|Texas Historical Marker for the site of Carry Nation's hotel in East Columbia, Texas]]
Carrie Nation began her temperance work in Medicine Lodge by starting a local branch of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] and campaigning for the enforcement of Kansas' ban on the sale of liquor. Her methods escalated from simple protests to serenading saloon patrons with hymns accompanied by a [[Barrel organ|hand organ]], to greeting bartenders with pointed remarks such as, "Good morning, destroyer of men's souls."<ref name=mcqueen/> Dissatisfied with the results of her efforts, Nation began to pray to God for direction. On June 5, 1900, she felt she received her answer in the form of a heavenly vision. As Nation described it:<blockquote>The next morning I was awakened by a voice which seemed to me speaking in my heart, these words, "GO TO [[Kiowa, Kansas|KIOWA]]," and my hands were lifted and thrown down and the words, "I'LL STAND BY YOU." 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. I was impressed with a great inspiration, the interpretation was very plain, it was this: "Take something in your hands, and throw at these places in Kiowa and smash them."<ref name="KSHS" /></blockquote>

Responding to the revelation, Nation gathered several rocks – "smashers", she called them – and proceeded to Dobson's Saloon on June 7. Announcing "Men, I have come to save you from a drunkard's fate", she began to destroy the saloon's stock with her cache of rocks. After she similarly destroyed two other saloons in Kiowa, a tornado hit eastern Kansas, which Nation took as divine approval of her actions.<ref name=mcqueen/>

==Hatchetations==
Carrie Nation continued her saloon destruction, 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. Nation replied, "That is the most sensible thing you have said since I married you."<ref name=mcqueen/> The couple divorced in 1901; they had no children.<ref>[http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2514# Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (1846–1911)], ''The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture''; retrieved May 18, 2010.</ref> Between 1902 and 1906, she lived in [[Guthrie, Oklahoma]].<ref>[http://obscurity.typepad.com/.a/6a01156e735f12970c0147e10afc89970b-pi Carrie Nation: Crusader Against Alcohol]; retrieved December 3, 2014.</ref>

Alone or accompanied by hymn-singing women, Nation would march into a bar and sing and pray while smashing bar fixtures and stock with a hatchet. Between 1900 and 1910, she was arrested some 30 times for "hatchetations", as she came to call them. Nation paid her jail fines from lecture-tour fees and sales of [[stick pin]]s in the shape of hatchets.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/carry/carry4.htm|title=Paying the Bills|publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|access-date=January 13, 2007}}</ref> The souvenirs were provided by a [[Topeka, Kansas]], pharmacist. Engraved on the handle of the hatchet, the pin reads, "Death to Rum".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_512276|title=Carrie A. Nation Pin, 1905|website=National Museum of American History|language=en|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Carrie Nation postcard.jpg|thumb|A postcard from around 1910]]
In April 1901, Nation went to Kansas City, Missouri, a city known for its wide opposition to the temperance movement, and smashed liquor in various bars on 12th Street in downtown Kansas City.<ref name="Mrs. Nation Fired">{{cite news | title=Mrs. Nation Fired in Police Court: Judge McAuley Assesses the Joint-Smasher $500 and Orders Her out of Town | newspaper=The Kansas City World | date=April 15, 1901}}</ref> She was arrested, taken to court, and fined {{US$|500|1901|round=-2|long=no}} although the judge suspended the fine under the condition that she never return to Kansas City.<ref name="Nation Barred">{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/04/16/101188248.pdf|title=Mrs. Nation Barred from Kansas City|date=April 16, 1901|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=June 6, 2013}}</ref><ref name="KC Bars">{{cite news | title=Kansas City Bars Mrs. Nation. | newspaper=[[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] | location=[[Brooklyn, New York]] | date=April 15, 1901 | page=6 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/50355028/ | access-date=November 22, 2021}}</ref> She was arrested more than 32 times—one report is that she was placed in the [[Washington, D.C.]], poorhouse for three days for refusing to pay a $35 fine.<ref>[http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95047227/1908-02-13/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1900&index=4&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Carry+Nation&proxdistance=5&date2=1911&ortext=&proxtext=Carry+A++Nation&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 "The champion"], February 13, 1908 (Image 2), chroniclingamerica.loc.gov; accessed June 7, 2017.</ref>

Nation also conducted [[women's rights]] marches in Topeka, Kansas. She led hundreds of women that were part of the Home Defender's Army to march in opposition to saloons.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Populist Persuasion |last=Kazin|first=Michael|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1995|location=New York|pages=87}}</ref> In Amarillo, Texas, she received a strong response, as she was sponsored by the surveyor W. D. Twichell, an active Methodist layman.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ftw02|title=Willis Day Twichell|encyclopedia=[[The Handbook of Texas]]|access-date=May 3, 2011}}</ref>

Nation's anti-alcohol activities became widely known, with the slogan "All Nations Welcome But Carrie" becoming a bar-room staple.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/carry/carry7.htm|title=Carry A. Nation: A National and International Figure |publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|access-date=August 22, 2007}}</ref> She published ''The Smasher's Mail'', a biweekly newsletter, and ''The Hatchet'', a newspaper.

==Later life and death==
Later in life Nation exploited her name by appearing in [[vaudeville]] in the United States<ref name=mcqueen/> and [[music hall]]s in Great Britain. Nation, a proud woman more given to sermonizing than entertaining, found these venues uninspiring for her proselytizing. One of a number of pre-[[World War I]] acts that "failed to click" with foreign audiences, Nation was struck by an egg thrown by an audience member during one 1909 music hall lecture at the [[Canterbury Music Hall|Canterbury Theatre of Varieties]] in Westminster, London. Indignantly, "The Anti-Souse Queen" ripped up her contract and returned to the United States.<ref>Abel Green and Joe Laurie, Show Biz From Vaude to Video (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1951), pp. 80–81.</ref> Seeking profits elsewhere, Nation sold photographs of herself, collected lecture fees, and marketed miniature souvenir hatchets.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1901/08/19/archives/mrs-nation-at-atlantic-city-she-only-sold-souvenirs-and-took-a-bath.html "Mrs. Nation at Atlantic City.; She Only Sold Souvenirs and Took a Bath, and People Were Disappointed"], ''The New York Times'', August 19, 1901.</ref> In October 1909, various press outlets reported that Nation claimed to have invented an aeroplane.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Carrie Nation claims|date=October 2, 1909|work=[[Topeka State Journal]]}}</ref>

Near the end of her life, Nation moved to [[Eureka Springs, Arkansas]], where she founded the home known as "Hatchet Hall". She would give her final speech on January 14, 1911, when she had collapsed mid-way through, having previously suffered health problems.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (1846–1911) |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/carrie-amelia-moore-nation-2514/ |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |language=en-US}}</ref> Nation fell into a coma and was taken to Evergreen Place Hospital, where she eventually died on June 9, 1911.<ref>A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written & compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka/Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918</ref><ref name="OHS">{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/n/na006.html|title=Nation, Carry Moore (1846–1911)|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|access-date=June 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119145044/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NA006.html|archive-date=November 19, 2012}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> She was buried in the southeastern side of Belton Cemetery in [[Belton, Missouri]]. 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. Nation".

==Legacy==
[[File:Carry Nation house from NE 1.jpg|thumb|alt=One-story frame house with wraparound front porch|[[Carrie Nation House (Kansas)|Carrie Nation House]] in Medicine Lodge, Kansas]]

In 1918, a drinking fountain was erected in Nation's memory by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. It is located at Naftzger Memorial Park in Wichita, Kansas.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wichita.gov:443/ParkandRec/CityParks/Pages/Naftzger.aspx|title=City Parks Naftzger Memorial Park|website=www.wichita.gov|language=en-US|access-date=June 23, 2019}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/15471|title=Carry Nation Memorial Drinking Fountain (In Transition), Wichita, Kansas|website=RoadsideAmerica.com|language=en|access-date=June 23, 2019}}</ref> In July 2018 a life-size bronze statue of Nation was erected in front of the Eaton Hotel (at the time called the Carey Hotel<ref>{{Cite web |title=National and State Registers of Historic Places – Kansas Historical Society |url=https://www.kshs.org/natreg/natreg_listings/search/prop:/city:Wichita/county:SG/arch:/category:47/thematic:/keywords:carey%20hotel/records:all/submit:SEARCH |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=www.kshs.org}}</ref>), the location of her raid in Wichita, Kansas. 

The play ''[[Carry Nation (play)|Carry Nation]]'' ran on Broadway and starred [[Esther Dale]]. [[Beverly Wolff]] performed the title role in the opera [[Carry Nation (opera)|Carry Nation]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://operawarhorses.com/2020/04/18/historical-performances-douglas-moores-carry-nation-with-wolff-faull-smith-and-fredricks-san-francisco-spring-opera-june-13-1966/ | title=Historical Performances: Douglas Moore's "Carry Nation" with Wolff, Faull, Smith and Fredricks – San Francisco Spring Opera, June 13, 1966 – Opera Warhorses }}</ref> Nation was portrayed by [[Valerie Buhagiar]] in [[List of Murdoch Mysteries episodes#Season 9 (2015–2016)|Season 9 Episode 6]] of the Canadian [[TV series]] ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5172356/ |title=Murdoch Mysteries: The Local Option |date=November 16, 2015 |website=IMDB |access-date=March 15, 2021}}</ref> In "[[Bar Fights]]" (Episode 3, Season 4) of [[Comedy Central]]'s ''[[Drunk History]]'', Nation is portrayed by [[Vanessa Bayer]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6144194/ |title=Drunk History: Bar Fights |date=October 11, 2016 |website=IMDB |access-date=March 15, 2021}}</ref> A fictionalized version of Nation is portrayed in the musical ''[[Queen of the Mist]]'', wherein she crosses paths with [[Annie Edson Taylor]]. Nation was portrayed by [[Julia Murney]] in the original Off-Broadway production.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/theater/reviews/queen-of-the-mist-at-the-gym-at-judson-review.html?_r=0|title = Obsessed with Taking the Plunge|newspaper = The New York Times|date = November 7, 2011|last1 = Brantley|first1 = Ben}}</ref> 

In the satirical musical melodrama ''[[Beyond the Valley of the Dolls]]'' the band the Kelly Affair change their name to the Carrie Nations.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title= Top 10 Fake Bands |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2009/04/16/top-10-fake-bands/slide/the-carrie-nations/ |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=April 15, 2009 |access-date=March 15, 2021}}</ref> In the [[Kurt Vonnegut]] story, [[Welcome to the Monkey House (short story)|Welcome to the Monkey House]], the fictional [[J. Edgar Nation]]'s name is a mixture made up from [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and Carrie Nation. F.B.I. director Hoover "was vigorous in his moral judgments."<ref name=Reed>{{cite book |last=Reed |first=Peter J. |date=1997 |title=The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut |location=Westport, London |publisher=Greenwood Press }}</ref> Nation's  message is also present through the character [[Nancy McLuhan]]  who is convinced that gin is the worst drug of all. DJs [[Nita Aviance]] and Will Automagic formed the duo ''The Carry Nation''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Musto |first=Michael |date=2017-06-28 |title=The Carry Nation, a Downtown D.J. Duo, Drums Up a Hypnotic Beat |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/fashion/the-carry-nation-downtown-dj-duo-gay-clubs.html |access-date=2025-07-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[Neil Munro (writer)|Neil Munro]] gives a satirical account of an encounter with Carrie Nation in his Erchie MacPherson story, "Erchie and Carrie", first published in the ''[[Glasgow Evening News]]'' of 14 December 1908.<ref>Munro, Neil, "Erchie and Carrie", in Osborne, Brian D. & Armstrong, Ronald (eds.) (2002), ''Erchie, My Droll Friend'', [[Birlinn Limited]], Edinburgh, pp. 360 - 363, {{isbn|9781841582023}}</ref> In 1977 [[Gary Dahl (businessman)|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."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1535722/salt-lake-tribune-feb-20-1977-tedbredt/|title=Salt Lake Tribune, Feb 20 1977 TedBredt on Pet Rock|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune |date=February 20, 1977|pages=173|accessdate=March 11, 2023|via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/595180/pet-rock-history|title=Hard Sell: A History of the Pet Rock|date=August 22, 2019|website=Mental Floss|accessdate=March 11, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VhBXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V0MNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4238%2C2999792 | title=Pet rock millionaire offers a new method to getting stoned | work=The Miami News | date=1977-02-07 | agency=Associated Press | access-date=December 18, 2011 | pages=2A | archive-date=March 2, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302002646/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VhBXAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V0MNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4238%2C2999792 | url-status=dead }}</ref>   [https://brewedinbelton.com/ Broken Hatchet Brewing] a microbrewery in Belton, Missouri is named in her "honor".

[[Carry A. Nation House (Kentucky)|Carry A. Nation House]] in Kentucky was a home of Carrie Nation, and was a 10-room house then. It is now [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Garrard County, Kentucky|listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Garrard County, Kentucky]], [[United States]].  It was built in 1846.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref><ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=77000620}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Carry A. Nation House|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|accessdate=2016-06-24|author1=Patricia Bollard |author2=Daniel Kidd |author3=Gloria Mils  |name-list-style=amp |date=March 1977}} with {{NRHP url|id=77000620|photos=y|title=photos}}</ref> Nation's home in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, the [[Carrie Nation House (Kansas)|Carrie Nation House]], was bought by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the 1950s and was declared a U.S. [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1976.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

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==Further reading==
{{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?165656-1/carry-nation ''Booknotes'' interview with Fran Grace on ''Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life'', October 14, 2001], C-SPAN}}
* [https://archive.org/details/useandneedlifec01natigoog ''The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation''] (1905) by Carry A. Nation
* ''Carry Nation'' (1929) by Herbert Asbury
* ''Cyclone Carry: The Story of Carry Nation'' (1962) by [[Carleton Beals]]
* ''Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of Carry Nation'' (1966) by Robert Lewis Taylor
* ''Carry A. Nation: Retelling The Life'' (2001) by Fran Grace

==External links==
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* [http://www.kansasmemory.org/locate.php?query=Carry+Nation&restrict=all&categories=1245-4805&page=1 Photos, letters, and other primary sources related to Carry Nation] –  Kansas Memory, the digital portal of the Kansas Historical Society
* [http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2514# Carrie Amelia Moore Nation (1846–1911)] – The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
* [http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/carry/carry1.htm Carry A. Nation: The Famous and Original Bar Room Smasher] – Kansas State Historical Society
* [http://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?q=carry+nation&t=fulltext Photos of Carry Nation] – Fort Bend Museum, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
* {{Gutenberg author | id=648}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Carry Amelia Nation}}
* [http://www.kshs.org/cool2/hammer.htm Carry Nation's hammer, Kansas Museum of History]
* [http://www.kshs.org/cool/coolpurs.htm Carry Nation's purse, Kansas Museum of History]
* {{Find a Grave|756|Carry Amelia Nation}}

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