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Home / Society / History / By Region / North America / United States / West / Orphan Trains
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Web Sites
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- Art Smith's Story - Arthur F. Smith, an orphan train rider in 1922, tells his personal story.
www.hamilton.net/subscribers/hurd/artsmith.htm
- Orphan Trains - Background on the orphan trains that brought children from overcrowded homes and orphanages in the big northeastern cities to homes out west.
www.outfitters.com/~melissa/ot/ot.html
- Orphan Trains of Kansas - Stories, articles, bibliographies, timeline and other information on orphans shipped west at the turn of the century in hopes of a better life.
raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/articles/orphans
- Riders on an Orphan Train - Provides a brief history of the orphan trains and the stories of riders Anna May Potthoff Keeton and William James Kimmel.
raven.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/articles/orphan_train_1911.html
- The Orphan Trains - From P.B.S.'s "The American Experience." This site provides information about the orphan trains designed to take their passengers to a better place and a fresh start.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/orphan/index.html
- They Rode the Orphan Trains - An article about the orphan trains of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the children who rode them.
www.rootsweb.com/~mogrundy/orphans.html
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