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Leonel Campbell Ross O'Bryan (1857–16 July 1938), known under the pen name Polly Pry, was a controversial reporter for the The Denver Post and later as a freelancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is best known for her connection to the case of Alferd Packer as an investigative reporter.
15 de oct. de 2017 · News. Colorado News. Our first female reporter helped get a cannibal pardoned and broke up a newsroom gunfight in the aftermath. 125 years of The Post’s biggest characters: A look at the life of...
Adventurous newspaper writer, gossip columnist, and social activist who became one of the first women to run her own newspaper. From Mississippi to Mexico. Leonel Ross Campbell was born in 1857 to a wealthy Mississippi family. She went by her nickname, Nell, in everyday life.
29 de nov. de 2021 · “A Lasting Disgrace” - In 1903, The Denver Post investigative journalist Polly Pry exposed abuses at the Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School that shocked the nation. Her reporting brought to light the mistreatment of Native children that was all too common at boarding schools throughout the nation.
28 de mar. de 2023 · In 1899, Denver Post writer Polly Pry visited Packer at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. “The corroding desire for freedom has eaten into his heart,” she reported, ...
30 de oct. de 2020 · While he was still incarcerated, a controversial columnist with The Denver Post who wrote under the name Polly Pry launched a movement on Packer’s behalf, urging others that he was innocent, Houston said. She published emotional articles and by the trace of her pen, started to turn public opinion in Packer’s favor.
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...
