Pack Horse LibrariansFocuses on pack horse librarians who had travelled the mountains of eastern Kentucky from 1935 to 1943. Challenges faced by the librarians; Significance of their job.Click
However, the legacy that the book women or packhorse librarians left behind led to support for public libraries, one of which is the federal funding in 1957 to the Kentucky Department of Libraries which allowed it to resume the services left behind by the packhorse librarians in 1943.Boyd...
The Kentucky Pack Horse Libraries project was a government-funded Works Progress Administration programme that paid librarians, mostly women, to deliver reading material on the backs of horses and mules to rural Appalachian mountaineers in eastern Kentucky from 1936 to 1943. As part of their work, ...
This article examines collected recipes from scrapbooks maintained by Kentucky's Pack Horse Librarians (1936-43).Kentucky LibrariesJason M Vance
This dissertation investigates the role of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Packhorse Library Program in the emergence of the written word in rural Eastern Kentucky during the years of the Great Depression. Specifically, this examination places packhorse libraries into the broader context of ...