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We Rode the Orphan Trains
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Overview: Once I had completed Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, I filed away the interviews I had conducted with other riders. I guess I must have known that I would write another book about the orphan trains. Each rider's story was so compelling, and this history is rapidly slipping away, for the riders still alive are elderly. |
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When several riders died in rapid succession, I decided to do another book while I could still interview the people I would include in it. I settled on four men and four women who were old enough at the time to remember what happened to them (many riders were infants or toddlers when they rode the trains, and therefore not good candidates for me). Their stories, taken together, offered a variety of orphan train experiences. I also went in search of information about the agents of the Children's Aid Society who rode on the trains with the children. Very little has been written about these selfless people, these unsung heroes, who devoted years and even decades of their lives to the children. I focused on one: Clara Comstock, a former schoolteacher, who made 74 trips west with "her" children, and remained devoted to them the rest of her life. |
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Awards for We Rode the Orphan Trains (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) |
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Read an Excerpt: Each child whose story I tell in the book has a fascinating tale. In the following excerpt, you meet Betty, a beautiful little girl whose mother didn't want her or her older siblings. |
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