June 2013: Bike Ride 5

Carrie Nation's home in Medicine Lodge. The National Park Service says this about it:

From 1889 to 1902, this was the residence of Carry Nation (1846-1911), the temperance leader who became the foremost symbol of a reinvigorated prohibition movement. Nation and her saloon-destroying hatchet resuscitated public interest in prohibition at the turn of the 20th century. While living in this small brick house in 1900, she received a "divine call" to "go to Kiowa," a nearby town, where she wrecked three saloons. She sold the house in 1902, using its proceeds to open a house for drunkards' wives in Kansas City. She then continued on her crusading rampage, lecturing, touring, and smashing.