am dangerous to invisible government of United States; I am dangerous to special privileges of United States; I am dangerous to white slaver and to saloonkeeper, and I thank God that at this hour I am dangerous to war profiteers of this country who rob people on one hand, and rob and degrade government on other; and then with their pockets and wallets stuffed with filthy, bloodstained profits of war, wrap sacred folds of Stars and Stripes about them and shout their blatant hypocrisy to world. You can convince people that I am dangerous to these men; but no jury and no judge can convince them that I am a dangerous woman to best interests of United States. With these words Kate Richards O'Hare defied court at her 1917 sentencing for violation of Espionage Act. Her oratory only served to infuriate judge and land her a five-year prison sentence for publicly opposing America's intervention in World War I. Her opposition to war was only part of her long history of social criticism. her childhood in Kansas and Missouri until her death in 1948, O'Hare challenged virtually all of society's institutions. In From Prairie to Prison, Sally Miller reveals story of this colourful and exuberant woman who spent her life fighting for equality and justice. As a young woman O'Hare was active in temperance and social service efforts, until she discovered socialism and thought it to be cure for all ills plaguing society. In 1902 she spent her honeymoon barnstorming across country for Socialist Party of America. Red Kate, as she was called, became most celebrated socialist woman from West and a close colleague of Eugene V. Debs. Billing her as the foremost woman orator and the busiest woman in America, her national lecture tours drew people by thousands. Although O'Hare chose an untraditional path as a woman activist, she did marry and rear a family. Her husband stayed behind to take care of children as O'Hare went on road to fight for workers, farmers, child labourers, disenfranchised women and prisoners. Kate Richards O'Hare left behind an impressive record as a radical who took on battles of every forgotten American. From Prairie to Prison chronicles public and private life of a woman who serves as a model for generations to come.