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| The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library BooksBurgess, Anikahttp://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarians-horseback-new-deal-book-delivery-wpa 
 Publisher:  Atlas Obscura
 Date Written:  31/08/2017
 Year Published:  2017
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 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 material to Kentucky's isolated mountain communities.
 
 
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