Orphan Trains to Missouri

by Michael D. Patrick and Evelyn Goodrich Trickel

Book Overview

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 laws encouraged the poor of Europe to find new hope...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826211216
• ISBN13: 9780826211217
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher