A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.
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I first learned about book women when I read "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek". It's fiction, based on real events. Not exactly great literature, but interesting and informative history.