Fellow journalists praised Pyle's writing. Walter Morrow, editor of the "Rocky Mountain News", claimed that Pyle's columns from his travels across the United States in the 1930s were "the most widely read thing in the paper." During World War II Pyle continued to write about his experiences from the perspective of what he called "the worm's-eye view." In addition to publication of his columns in newspapers in the United States, Pyle's writing was the only writing from a civilian correspondent to be regularly published in the U.S. armed forces newspaper, "Stars and Stripes".