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Author
Publisher
Wellspring of Life Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In 1913 an unwed Irish girl, Bessie Brady, gives birth to a baby boy in the New York Foundling Hospital in New York City. She names him Ignatius, but knows she cannot keep him. Bessie signs him over to the Sisters of Charity at the hospital, who place lost, abandoned and illegitimate children on "orphan trains" to Catholic families mainly throughout the Midwest. Between 1854 and 1929 about 200,000 children were placed on these orphan trains for a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events involved in the orphan trains. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a New York City newsboy, a child trying to keep his siblings together, and a child sent west on the baby trains"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
[Clark Kidder]
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
"It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America's not-so-distant past that nearly 200,000 children could be loaded on trains in large cities on our East Coast, sent to the rural Midwest, and presented for the picking to anyone who expressed an interest in them. That's exactly what happened between the years 1854 and 1929. The primitive social experiment became known as placing out, and had its origins in a New York City organization founded...
Publisher
Smoky Hills Public Television
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Combines archival material with interviews with actual orphan train riders, rider descendants and historical consultants. Program helps create awareness of the Orphan Train Era and preserve the history of the movement and those who were a part of it.--Website.
Author
Series
Orphan Train West series volume 2
Publisher
Fleming H. Revell
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Description
Three 8 year old girls leave a orphanage and set out on the "Orphan Train" heading West to the unknown. As the years go by each girl encounters love and struggles to pursue an elusive dream. Here in one volume are their stories.
49) Rory's promise
Author
Series
Hidden histories volume 1
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
�2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rory Fitzpatrick loves her younger sister, Violet, more than anyone in the world. She has been Violet's only family ever since their parents died and they went to live at the Sisters of Charity Foundling Hospital in New York. Rory promised she would always protect her sister, would never leave her. So when Rory learns that the nuns are sending Violet to an adoptive family out West, Rory is determined to follow and keep her family together...
Author
Publisher
Writers Club Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Journey's End is the story of a remarkable man, George Wells of Nebraska, an Orphan Train Rider. Readers first met him as the hero of Train To Red Cloud, A Small Boy's Journey. In these pages meet him as the author did... through personal letters, anecdotes from friends and neighbors who knew him, and the author's sentimental journey to Red Cloud to trace his steps. The train that brought him to Red Cloud was not the end, but the beginning, of a joyous...
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