1 videodisc (59 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
It seems incomprehensible tht there was a time in America's not-so-distant past when nearly a quarter of a million children from East Coast orphanages were loaded on trains and sent west, where they were presented "for the picking." West by Orphan Train tells the story of these children, who were taken from a sometimes-rough existence to unfamiliar rural settings during an era that lasted from 1854 to 1929. As some of the last of the still-living orphan train riders like to point out, it was a different era--one that can't be judged without understanding what lives were like then.
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