A group of “book women” on horseback in Hindman, Kentucky, 1940. Kentucky Library and Archives 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 ...
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...