When the Works Progress Administration was ended in 1943, unfortunately so was the Pack Horse Library Program. It wasn't the end of book delivery though! Kentucky led the nation in number of bookmobiles that were drawn by motorized horsepower vs. actual horses. ...
Kentuckypack horseWPAThe 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 ...
"The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1936-1943." Libraries and the Cultural Record 42, no. 2 (2007).Boyd, Donald C. "The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1936- 1943." Libraries and the Cultural Record 42 (2007): 111-28....
This article examines collected recipes from scrapbooks maintained by Kentucky's Pack Horse Librarians (1936-43).Kentucky LibrariesJason M Vance
Moreover, this investigation argues that the success of the Packhorse Library Program serves as a historical barometer measuring the significant economic and social changes occurring in Eastern Kentucky during the early decades of the twentieth century. Thus, the Packhorse Library Program can be seen...
1883-1962 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Sevan Terzian BoydDonald CameronJrThis 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 ...