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Polly Pry

- The Woman Who Wrote the West

About Polly Pry

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 minersΓÇÖ union. She was nearly murdered more than once. And a younger female colleague once said, ΓÇ£Polly Pry did not just report the news, she made it!ΓÇ¥ 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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781493063789
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 216
  • Published:
  • May 31, 2022
  • Dimensions:
  • 145x223x13 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 290 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 11, 2024

Description of Polly Pry

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 minersΓÇÖ union. She was nearly murdered more than once. And a younger female colleague once said, ΓÇ£Polly Pry did not just report the news, she made it!ΓÇ¥
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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