Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West Traveling drawing extensively on declassified material

drawing extensively on declassified material from the Eisenhower Library

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Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West Traveling drawing extensively on declassified materialIn 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