Introduction

In 1900, L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz was first published. Prohibitionist Carrie Nation smashed her first bar with a hatchet in the name of Temperance. Zelda Fitzgerald, Margaret Mitchell, and Anne Frank's mother Edith were all born. Frederick Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde both passed away. In 1900, Civil War spies Elizabeth Van Lu and Bell Boyd both died.