Authors: Marylin Irvin Holt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-02-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the