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Orphan Trains to Missouri

Orphan Trains to Missouri( )
Author: Patrick, Michael D.
Trickel, Evelyn Goodrich
Series title:Missouri Heritage Readers Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8262-1121-7
Publication Date:Aug 1997
Publisher:University of Missouri Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

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 with new lives...
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