Orphan trains to Missouri
By: Michael D. Patrick, Evelyn Goodrich Trickel.
Contributors: Trickel, Evelyn, 1932-
Series: Missouri heritage readers
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Children's Aid Society (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Orphan trains -- Juvenile literature.; Orphans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature.; Abandoned children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile literature.; Adoptees -- Missouri -- Juvenile literature.; Orphan trains.; Orphans.
Description: Discusses the use of orphan trains to place orphaned or abandoned children in homes in nineteenth-century Missouri.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106) and index.