Horse-Riding Librarians Were the Great Depression’s Bookmobiles – Smithsonian


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Horse-Riding Librarians Were the Great Depression's Bookmobiles
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Their horses splashed through iced-over creeks. Librarians rode up into the Kentucky mountains, their saddlebags stuffed with books, doling out reading material to isolated rural people. The Great Depression had plunged the nation into poverty, and ...

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