Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on July 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Grace Caudill Lucas, September 23, 1912 – December 18, 2001, appears in several photos. She rented her horse for fifty cents a week. She spent her life in eastern Kentucky. 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on July 19, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Bookrider Ruth Shuler is reaching for a book. She reminds me of a cowboy movie. 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on July 11, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Her arms full, she is posing for a magazine photographer. 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on June 25, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I love this photo: rail fence, mule, snow, holler below her. 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on June 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »
This Bookrider is reading to a sick man, possibly the family was illiterate. 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on June 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »
This Bookrider is near Booneville, Owsley County in 1936. 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on June 9, 2019| Leave a Comment »
This lady is making a scrapbook of news items for distribution by Bookriders. 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books (and scrapbooks) in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on May 29, 2019| Leave a Comment »
With rare exceptions, Bookriders were women. Here a man wearing riding boots is helping pack the saddlebags. Bookrider? 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on May 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Given the mountainside log cabin with no windows, it is hard to believe this is likely from a 1934-1943 WPA project to distribute books in eastern Kentucky on horseback.
My story is Beware the Blue Lady, part of a Bookriders anthology.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bookrider on April 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Nan “Two-Gun” Aspinwall (1880-1964) was a performer for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. In 1910, she rode her Thoroughbred mare, Lady Ellen, from San Francisco to New York, the first woman to do so. The 4496-mile trip took 180 days in the saddle.
I found this while researching for my story, Beware the Blue Lady, a story about the Bookriders. Nan Aspinwall rode wearing a split skirt and pants, which was against the law in 1910. Thirty years later, lady Bookriders wore the same attire. To my knowledge, their attire was legal.
