They went from being feared to eagerly awaited. From considering them crazy to saviors. Risking their lives with each ride, women and children from the remote villages of the American Appalachians scrutinized the horizon every day in search of his silhouette. They were the Amazons of books, the bookseller on horseback, or the book woman, as those women who went through the history of the United States to manage to bring the printed word to even the most remote places came to be known remote in the middle of the Great Depression. It was the thirties of the last century. Today, the pandemic has also taught us a great lesson about the importance of books in times of coronavirus. They have not arrived on horseback, but the feats that have been carried out to reach their goal have not been few.
Almost a century ago,
