ADELINE: Wayne D. Dundee: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: For over half a century, the Orphan Train program took abandoned children from the squalor and dangers of overcrowded eastern cities and transported them to new lives in the rural West.
Some went to loving, welcoming homes the way it was meant to be. Others ended up as little more than slave labor to the hard demands of farm or ranch life.
And then there was the fate that awaited Adeline …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Attention to Books of Interest
ADELINE: Wayne D. Dundee: Amazon.com: Kindle Store: For over half a century, the Orphan Train program took abandoned children from the squalor and dangers of overcrowded eastern cities and transported them to new lives in the rural West.
Some went to loving, welcoming homes the way it was meant to be. Others ended up as little more than slave labor to the hard demands of farm or ranch life.
And then there was the fate that awaited Adeline …
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Don't know if I can bear to read it. Adeline, where have you gone?
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