When Nellie May Trent’s family moved to Mesa in 1893, they lived in a tent. The 5-year-old worked alongside her mother washing other people’s clothes and shelling almonds in a factory. Her dresses ...
The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. The ...