Orphan Trains to Missouri by Michael D Patrick

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Orphan Trains to Missouri by Michael D Patrick

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Teil der Missouri Heritage Readers Series-Serie

Zusammenfassung

This text explores the ""orphan trains"" which took poor European immigrant children to new lives in the Midwest in 1854. It documents the history of the children on those trains - their struggles, successes and failures. It includes stories of volunteers who oversaw the placement of the orphans.

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Orphan Trains to Missouri by Michael D Patrick

This text explores the ""orphan trains"" which took poor European immigrant children to new lives in the Midwest in 1854. It documents the history of the children on those trains - their struggles, successes and failures. It includes stories of volunteers who oversaw the placement of the orphans.

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Michael D. Patrick is Adjunct Professor of Folklore at the University of Southern Alabama and Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Residing in Trenton, Missouri, Evelyn Goodrich Trickel is the coauthor of A Pictorial History of Grundy County and recipient of the Charles Loring Brace Award from the Orphan Train Heritage of America. Patrick and Trickel, along with Evelyn Sheets, coauthored We Are Part of History: The Story of Orphan Trains.

SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780826211217
ISBN 10 0826211216
Titel Orphan Trains to Missouri
Autor Michael D Patrick
Serie Missouri Heritage Readers Series
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag University of Missouri Press
Erscheinungsjahr 1997-08-30
Seitenanzahl 144
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