History & Biography Book Group

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Library Program

Age Group:

Adults
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Join us to discuss "Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West" by Julia Bricklin. In 1900, Leonel Ross Campbell became the first female reporter to work for The Denver Post. Known as Polly Pry, she …. Got her start not just writing the news, but inventing it. Campbell would become a respected journalist and activist later in her career. Establishing 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. 

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