Describes the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her "real" mother, survives a tortured childhood, when she encountered whippings and sexual abuse, and ultimately, as an adult, comes to terms with ...

(The textbook version is titled: Adoption History: An Orphan's Research) Janine Myung Ja. Regarding the arrival into ... Marilyn June Coffey, author of Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story, gave a detailed depiction of the entire ...

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.

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.

In this book, the author tells the true story of his paternal grandmother, the late Emily (Reese) Kidder, who, at the tender age of fourteen, became one of the aforementioned children who rode an Orphan Train.

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

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.

From 1854 to 1929 about 150,000 orphans from New York City and the surrounding area were placed in homes in the Midwest and West. The children were sent out on "Orphan Trains."