Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story by Andrea Warren
Books • March 2012 • Views: 2,967
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned and abandoned children from the cities of the eastern seaboard were “placed out” to new homes and families in the midwest and western states. Warren’s account of the “orphan-train” phenomena, and of one man’s story of how it affected his life, is an excellent introduction to researching or discussing children-at-risk in an earlier generation.
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