Orphan Trains to Missouri: Volume 1 - Paperback
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Orphan Trains to Missouri: Volume 1
As an "orphan train" crossed the country, it left part of its cargo at each stop, a few children in one small town and a few in another. Even though farmers needed many hands for labor, most of the small farm communities could not or would not take all of the children on the train. As the train moved to its next stop, those children not taken feared no one would ever want them.
Early immigration...
Michael D. Patrick is Adjunct Professor of Folklore at the University of Southern Alabama and Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Residing in Trenton, Missouri, Evelyn Goodrich Trickel is the coauthor of A Pictorial History of Grundy County and recipient of the Charles Loring Brace Award from the Orphan Train Heritage of America. Patrick and Trickel, along with...
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