When she was nine, Agnes Smedley’s father moved his family from Missouri to Trinidad, Colorado where he worked as a miner. At 18, Agnes moved to Greeley, enrolled in business school, and worked as a travelling saleswoman. She moved to New York and became involved with Indian revolutionaries working to oust the British from India during WW1. In 1928, she published her autobiography, Daughter of Earth, and later moved to China as a field correspondent covering the Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists (whom she favored). Her ashes are interred in the National Revolutionary Martyrs Memorial Park in Beijing.
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