Discover the true story of seven orphans who were settled with families in the Midwest by the Children's Aid Society.

"Describes the people and events involved in the orphan trains.

Learn about the homeless city children who were taken out West to have new homes in the early 1900s.

Discusses the use of orphan trains to place orphaned or abandoned children in homes in nineteenth-century Missouri.

Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.

Some found loving homes; others experienced physical and mental abuse. "Bridie's Daughter" brings that world to life in this second novel in Robert Noonan's Orphan Train Trilogy.

Recounts the experiences of abandoned, orphaned, or homeless children from city orphanages in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were sent out by the trainload to find families that would adopt them or take them as workers.