Emily's Story: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider
By Clark Kidder.
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 1930. The primitive social experiment became known as placing out, and had its origins in a New York City organization founded by Charles Loring Brace called the Children s Aid Society. The Society gathered up orphans, half-orphans, and abandoned children fr...
ISBN(s)
0615153135, 9780615153131
