In Hindman, Kentucky, a group of women, known as the "book women", usually set off on horseback at dawn, to pick their way along snowy hillsides and through muddy streams with a simple goal: to deliver reading materials to remote mountain communities.2'The Pack Horse Library initiative was...
This group of determined Kentuckians made sure folks in Appalachia had access to books in the early 1900s. On horseback through all kinds of weather and terrain, they started some of the state's first libraries.