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Polly Pry - The Woman Who Wrote the West (Hardcover)
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Polly Pry - The Woman Who Wrote the West (Hardcover)
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In 1900, the young and beautiful Leonel Ross Campbell became the
first female reporter to work for the Denver Post. As the
journalist known as Polly Pry, she ruffled feathers when she worked
to free a convicted cannibal and when she battled the powerful
Telluride miners' union. She was nearly murdered more than once.
And a younger female colleague once said, "Polly Pry did not just
report the news, she made it!" If only that young reporter had
known how true her words were. Polly Pry got her start not just
writing the news but inventing it. In spite of herself, however,
Campbell would become a respected journalist and activist later in
her career. She would establish herself as a champion for rights of
the under served in the early twentieth century, taking up the
causes of women, children, laborers, victims and soldiers of war,
and prisoners. And she wrote some of the most sensational stories
that westerners had ever read, all while keeping the truth behind
her success a secret from her colleagues and closest friends and
family.
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