Polly Pry

<P>In 1900 the young and beautiful Leonel Ross Campbell became the first female reporter to work for the Denver Post.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!”<BR />In spite of herself however Campbell would become a respected journalist and 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. </P>