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The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books

Burgess, Anika
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarians-horseback-new-deal-book-delivery-wpa

Publisher:  Atlas Obscura
Date Written:  31/08/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

They were known as the "book women." They would saddle up, usually at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy creeks with a simple goal: to deliver reading material to Kentucky's isolated mountain communities.

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