A few months into her newspaper career, Nellie Bly left Pittsburgh with her mother to work as a foreign correspondent in Mexico. She writes about the train south through El Paso, crowded third-class carriages, Mexico City’s streets, markets, bullfights, churches and festivals, and the poverty and politics she saw under Porfirio Díaz.
The first book of the daring journalist later famous for going around the world in seventy-two days. Download the free EPUB.