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         Orphan Trains American History:     more books (19)
  1. Orphan Trains (Researching American History)
  2. The Orphan Trains (American Events) by Annette R. Fry, 1994-04
  3. Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed by Stephen O'Connor, 2004-03-01
  4. Children of the Orphan Trains (Picture the American Past) by Holly Littlefield, 2000-12
  5. Orphan Train Riders: A Brief History of the Orphan Train Era (1854-1929): With Entrance Records from the American Female Guardian Society's by Tom Riley, 2005-01
  6. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book) by Marilyn Irvin Holt, 1994-02-01
  7. We Are a Part of History: The Story of the Orphan Trains by Michael Patrick, Evelyn Sheets, et all 1995-03
  8. Waifs, Foundlings, and Half-Orphans: Searching for America's Orphan Train Riders by Mary Ellen Johnson, 2009-05-01
  9. The Orphan Trains: Leaving the Cities Behind (Perspectives on History Series)
  10. Orphan Trains Traveling West to a New Life ( American History for Kids Cobblestone)
  11. A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story by Janie Lynn Panagopoulos, 2006-01-20
  12. Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories by Mary Ellen Johnson, 1995-03
  13. Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories by Marvin Chamberlin, 1997-10-01
  14. Orphan Train Riders: Their Own Stories by Kay B. Hall, Mary Ellen Johnson, 1993-10-06

41. Speakers (Young Audiences-U.S. History)
1930, nearly 200,000 children rode the orphan trains from New Why were they put ontrains and sent west? This forgotten piece of american history is brought to
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VII. Especially for Young Audiences B. American History and Culture
By Ricardo Garcia
With chistes (jokes), cuentos (legendary tales) and corridos (legendary ballads), Ricardo Garcia entertains and informs by telling stories from Northern New Mexico, the homeland of Hispano culture in the United States. Children in Victorian America
By Anita Sue Clement
This program focuses on the Victorian child from the middle of the 19th century to just past the turn of the 20th century. A child's place in the family and in the world changed greatly during this time, and Clement will bring it to life for you with photographs, artifacts and stories of children, their families and their lives—from the pampered darling to the child put to work in a factory or a field. The Hispanic Roots of Cowboy Culture
By Ricardo Garcia
This presentation answers the question "Where did cowboys come from?" by showing how cowboy culture was developed in Mexico by Mexican, Indian and African slaves and rich landholders. Participants learn about the Hispanic traditions of ranching, branding, roping, trail driving, horsemanship and the roundup, from which the "rodeo" developed. Garcia also shows how Mexican storytelling and singing led to cowboy yarns, tall tales, poetry and ballads. History, story and music are combined to tell the saga of the Mexican-American cowboy. Kiowa Tales
By Matthew "Sitting Bear" Jones
These are the stories, tales and legends of Set-Angia, Sitting Bear's Native American people. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these stories reveal the Kiowa vision of the world—from the time of Creation to the coming of the white man. Attired in native dress, Sitting Bear brings to the audience through his storytelling the thinking and customs of his Kiowa people, legends such as why the Crow is black and how the Coyote got his yell.

42. Genealogy - History - Information And Resource Guide To Nebraska - Nebraska.com
Native american Tribes of Nebraska Ponca, Pawnee, Omaha Listing of LDS Family HistoryCenters. orphan trains of Nebraska - Over 150,000 orphaned, homeless or
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43. The American Experience/Library/Previous Program's Websites
political and social turmoil after the american Revolution through Carl Fisher andtrace the history of the The orphan trains Relive the plight of the nearly
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44. Black Swamp Heritage Articles Bill
call them orphan Cars attached to trains, because cars site sponsored by the orphanTrain Heritage the american Public about this chapter of american history .
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/state/BillsArticles/BlackSwamp/bs20020512.htm
Black Swamp Heritage Articles
Bill Oliver 12 May 2002
Vol 1 Issue: #19
ISSN: pending Good Evening from the Black Swamp of NWoHIo, Long in our history there have been those who sold themselves for the price of a fare to America. At one time different prices were attached to various ethnic groups: $60 to 80 for a German; $40 for a Frenchman; English and Scots brought $30; and an Irishman was worth $20 to $25. The Spaniard or Portugese brought nothing. So, I was not surprised when reading about the Orphan Train sagas that the beholder placed the price of servitude upon those who got off the train. Some were treated as "new" family members and some were treated as boarders, and some as just another hand around the home or farm.. Ads were placed in local papers along the train's route to announce the arrival of children who were riding from New York. When the trains arrived the children were lined up on the railroad platforms or somewhere near by to be looked over by townspeople. If one wasn't chosen they were herded [or loaded] back onto the trains to repeat the performance at the next stop. Hopefully all the children would be "placed out" before the end of the tracks. It is said that 150,000 children rode the Orphan Trains between 1854 and 1929. And, it is said that of those, nearly 3500 riders were "placed out" in Nebraskan homes.

45. Links For Genealogy
Kansas Gunfighters. orphan trains of Kansas. Kansas County Abbreviations. americanLocal history Network. american Genealogy and history Project.
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46. 19th Century American History
Maritime history. american West (113), Military history (573). Amistad Revolt(9), General 33, Organizations (17). Gilded Age (15), orphan trains (12).
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47. History
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48. Social Studies Links
history OnLine american Colonies. Civil War. The US Civil War Center. TechnologyTimeline. Western Expansion The american West. The West orphan trains.
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49. Adoption Agency Offering Adoption Services For Adoptive Parents, Birth Parents,
the orphan trains stopped, some 150,000 children had found new homes in what wascalled one of the largest social experiments in american history. orphaned
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Our History and Heritage A Tradition of Trust The year was 1887, and the country's expansion westward continued at a feverish pace as land speculators rushed to stake their claim. Railroads forged track through the untamed prairies, leaving new cities in their wake. Train after train brought passengers to populate the bustling frontier towns. One train brought some very special cargo to such a community. Abandoned children from the northeastern part of the United States came to Fort Worth on the railroad as part of the orphan train movement. Those who made it this far west were the "leftovers," the stronger having already been plucked from the trains to work in farms or factories. Methodist missionary minister I.Z.T. Morris (photo at left) took in the little ones, and working with local residents and the railroad, helped find them homes. Thus began The Children's Home Society, which was chartered in 1904 as The Texas Children's Home and Aid Society. Renamed The Edna Gladney Home in 1950, the non-sectarian, state licensed adoption agency today is known as the Gladney Center for Adoption. Some 112 years after its inception, one man's mission has evolved to become an internationally recognized institution that has placed more than 24,000 children in homes and served more than 36,000 birth mothers. "It's really remarkable that Gladney has celebrated over 100 years of service, and that we're still continuing to evolve and grow," says President Michael McMahon, the first adoptive parent to hold the position. "Over the years, Gladney has always responded to society's changes and our clients' requirements."

50. Books For Kids--Family Tree Magazine
OneDay Trips through history, second edition, by Picture the american Past series(Lerner Publications Describes kids' experiences on orphan trains, at Indian
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Books Just for Kids A sampling of instructional and activity books to help children start exploring family history topics: Genealogy
  • Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Offline Genealogy for Kids by Ira Wolfman (Workman Publishing, $12.95)
  • Family History: A DK First Activity Pack by Chris and Melanie Rice (DK Publishing, $16.95)
  • The Family Tree Detective: Cracking the Case of Your Family's Story by Ann Douglas (Firefly Books, $9.95)
  • The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are by Lila Perl (Clarion Books, $7.95)
  • Genealogy Just for Kids! by Sherrie A. Styx (Styx Enterprises, $2.50)
  • Kids and Grandparents: An Activity Book by Ann Love and Jane Drake (Kids Can Press, $10.95)
  • Me and My Family Tree by Joan Sweeney (Dragonfly, $6.99)
  • My Family Tree Workbook: Genealogy for Beginners by Rosemary Chorzempa (Dover Publications, $2.95)
  • My Grandmother and Me (Kids Can Press, $4.95): Fill-in memory scrapbook; grandfather, mother and father editions are also available.

51. MSN Entertainment - Movies: American Experience: The Orphan Trains
Main. Showtimes. User Reviews. Awards. Cast Crew. Trailers More. Rent It Online.Find It On TV. history. 1 hrs. 0 min. american Experience The orphan trains ().
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52. Books About Railroad History
War history of american Railroad; Walker D. Hines; Hardcover; $37.95 (Special Order).We Are a Part of history The Story of the orphan trains; Michael Patrick
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A Collector's Guide and History to Lionel Trains : 1970-1980 (Lionel Collector's Guide, Vol 4) ; Tom McComas, James Tuohy; Paperback (Unavailable) A Collector's Guide and History to Lionel Trains : Prewar O Gauge (Lionel Collector's Guide, Vol 1) ; Tom McComas, et al; Paperback (Unavailable) A Collector's Guide and History to Lionel Trains ;Paperback (Special Order) A Collectors Guide and History to Lionel Trains 1970 1980 Vol 4 ; Tom McComas, James Tuohy; Hardcover; $25.00 (Special Order) A Generation of Boomers : The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Working Class in American History) ; Shelton Stromquist; Hardcover (Hard to Find) A Generation of Boomers : The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (Working Class in American History) ; Shelton Stromquist; Paperback; $16.95

53. Philanthropy Magazine @ The Philanthropy Roundtable
orphan trains has twin merits biography of one of the greatest (and unjustly forgotten)figures in american philanthropic history Charles Loring
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Fostering Character
The mixed legacy of the Emigration Plan
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Orphan Trains Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
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384 pp., $26 Joel Schwartz is a contributing editor of Philanthropy and the author of Departments Great Grants Briefly Noted Staffing Up Features Poor Little Rich Girl Cover Story Wait and See Following the Money ... Trouble Ahead? Fostering Character Men and Money The Next Step The New Urban Core Mixed Bag

54. WebQuest
thrilling ride through one of the darkest chapters in american history. By MichaelFoster, Seneca, KS. Websites containing related information on orphan trains.
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Orphan Trains A WebQuest for 5th Grade Language Arts Designed by Suzanne Bare, Lavonne Fortner, Julie Hedrick, and Sandy Speaks
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Introduction Choo, Choo!!!! All aboard for the exciting study of Orphan Trains.
This year we are studying orphan trains and preparing for point of view/clarificatoin writing. You are to read A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon and prepare a point of view essay. Summary: New York City in the mid-1800's is a rough place to raise six children alone. When the widowed Mrs. Kelly realizes that she can't keep her children from starving, or from breaking the law. she makes the agonizing decision to send them west on the Orphan Train. At least they'll be raised by families who can care for them. The children do not understand the love behind her decision. The oldest child, 13-year-old Frances Kelly, is further dismayed when she realizes that her siblings will be divided among different families. In order to care for her youngest brother, Frances disguises herself as a boy and becomes "Frankie." When she joins her new family, she finds herself not only in a new environment, but also right in the middle of breaking the law-helping slaves to escape on the Underground Railroad. This exciting adventure story takes readers on a thrilling ride through one of the darkest chapters in American history. By Michael Foster, Seneca, KS

55. Orphan Train Event
Oklahoma. orphan trains are a part of american history that few knowabout. The movement was the forerunner of modern day foster care.
http://library.ucok.edu/about/orphantrainevent.html
The Story of the Orphan Train will be dramatically recreated when actress Pippa White appears in The Story of the Orphan Train at 7:00 pm on March 27th 2003, at Chambers Library, University of Central Oklahoma. Orphan Trains are a part of American History that few know about. The movement was the forerunner of modern day foster care. Starting in 1854 children living on the streets of New York were rounded up, cleaned up and put on trains to rural America. The Story of the Orphan Train is a dramatization of stories recounting the Orphan Train experience as told by those who lived it. Chambers Library is honored to house and preserve a collection of memorabilia donated by Alice Bullis Ayler, one of the last of 200,000 children to be transported from New York City to the Midwest on Orphan Trains. Alice is an Alumnus of UCO and was granted the University’s Distinguished former student award. She received her BA in Psychology in 1973 and her Master’s degree in 1977. The event is sponsored by UCO Friends of the Library and is free and open to the public.

56. DISCOVERING FAMILY HISTORIES Research Resources -U.S.A. - Genealogy
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57. History Stuff!
at Dawn The Settling of the North american Continent, 1993; The National ExperienceA history of the United orphan trains The Story of Charles Loring Brace
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58. Discovery Enterprises - NYSTL
orphan trains Leaving the Cities Behind NYSTL 87866887X; Women in the american RevolutionNYSTL 87866873X; Women Part I of Perspectives on history Series NYSTL
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59. SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO ORPHAN TRAINS LEAVING FROM NEW YOUR TO OUT WEST  HAP
The history books have chosen to ignore this part of american history. For many,the orphan trains, not only saved their lives, but moved them to an
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1. Holiday Message We would like to take this opportunity to wish each and everyone one of you a very special Christmas and a Happy New Year. We decided to make a special Issue of Appalachian Heritage dedicated to a time in history where homeless children found new homes. There stories are so special and moving that you feel you were there with them. Can you imagine being a child living in the

60. Ancestry.com - Orphan Train Genealogy
In the scheme of great national events in american history, the relocation reminiscences,and portions of charities’ annual reports on the orphan trains.
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January/February 1995 vol. 13 no. 1 Orphan Train Genealogy
"They put us all on a big platform in some big building while people came from all around the countryside to pick out those of us they wished to take home. I was four years old, and my sister was only two . . ." This is how one woman remembered her 1914 orphan train experience, one that she shared with at least 200,000 others from 1853 to 1929. The orphan trains carried children, teenagers, and some adults (mostly women) out of eastern cities to rural communities. They were removed from poverty and want, incarceration and institutionalization. Some went to Connecticut, Vermont, Illinois, Nebraska, Virginia, and Texas. By the time the relocation program ended, youngsters were scattered across the breadth of America. When it began, the program was called "placing out." Today it is know as the "orphan trains." The practice began with the New York Children’s Aid Society, but it was taken up by other charities – the Children’s Mission to the Children of the Destitute (Boston), the New York Juvenile Asylum, the New England Home for Little Wanderers (Boston), and the New York Foundling Hospital. By the late 1800s, charities in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois also adopted the program, sending children to states farther west. Each agency had its own placement policies; the New England Home for Little Wanderers, for example, strongly encouraged legal adoption, but New York Juvenile Asylum placements were by legal indenture only. Agencies, however, varied little in procedure.

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