Download or read book Slocum 303 Slocum and the Orphan Express written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slocum escorts a pint-sized package through pistol-packed peril… Caught in a hellish Arizona sandstorm, John Slocum comes across a broken down wagon with only one living occupant—a newborn baby boy. The tiny bundle of joy has a pack of very dangerous men hunting for him. The same cutthroats who killed his father—and now want to cash in on the gold mine the kid just inherited. Teamed up with a less-than-motherly spitfire, Slocum fights a running battle across the wastelands. But he’s made a promise to get the baby to safety at all costs—and along the way, he’s going to sing the desperadoes a little hot lead lullaby….
Download or read book Slocum and the Orphan Express written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.
Download or read book Slocum 303 written by Jake Logan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slocum the Orphan Express L written by Jake Logan and published by Topeka Bindery. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's longest-running action-Western. John Slocum...babysitter? With a newborn he rescued in his arms, Slocum fights a running (one-armed) battle across the wastelands. He's made a promise to get the baby to safety--but along the way, he's going to sing some desperadoes a little hot lead lullaby.
Download or read book We Rode the Orphan Trains written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were "throwaway" kids, living on the streets or in orphanages and foster homes. Then Charles Loring Brace, a young minister in New York City, started the Children's Aid Society and devised a plan to give these homeless waifs a chance at finding families they could call their own. Thus began an extraordinary migration of American children. Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 children ventured forth on a journey of hope. Here, in the sequel to Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Andrea Warren introduces nine men and women who rode the trains and helped make history so many years ago.
Download or read book The Orphan Trains written by Alice K. Flanagan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the homeless city children who were taken out West to have new homes in the early 1900s.
Download or read book Children of the Orphan Trains written by Holly Littlefield and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the experiences of abandoned, orphaned, or homeless children from city orphanages in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who were sent out by the trainload to find families that would adopt them or take them as workers.
Download or read book Orphan Trains written by Kristin F. Johnson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines an important historic event - the orphan train movement. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of the Children's Aid Society and the development of the Brace School, lodging houses, and industrial schools, the conditions that led to child abandonment in the 1800s, problems with institutional care and child labor laws, the roles the Civil War, the Great Depression, and people like Charles Loring Brace played, and the effects of this event on society. Features include a table of contents, glossary, selected bibliography, Web links, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Slocum 302 Slocum and the Bad News Brothers written by Jake Logan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this criminal clan, revenge is a family affair… Out a-bounty-hunting, Slocum’s just passing through the God-forsaken town of Breakneck. But when his quick thinking saves a rancher’s life from one of the notorious Beamer brothers, the gunslinger is hired on as the man’s bodyguard. Easy enough work, Slocum reckons. Sitting fat all day, meals paid for, saying howdy-do to the lovely fillies… But when Slocum kills Billy and Ike Beamer to save his own hide, the remaining brothers show up to give him what-for. And there’s something that Slocum doesn’t know: the Beamer brothers always fight dirty…
Download or read book Orphan Trains Their Precious Cargo written by Herman Devillo Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid 1800 the street corners of New York City were home to several thousand homeless, abandoned and orphaned children. Relief came with the establishment of the Children's Aid Society in 1853 by one Charles Loring Brace. The society would gather likely orphans and send them west by train in groups of anywhere from 6-100, stopping at predetermined destinations where it was known foster homes were available. Agents were to visit these foster homes and write twice year of experiences. The orphan trains of the Children's Aid Society ran until 1929 and this text presents the story of one agent--Rev. Mr. Herman Clarke.
Download or read book Orphan Trains written by Rebecca Langston-George and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2016 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the true story of seven orphans who were settled with families in the Midwest by the Children's Aid Society.
Download or read book Abandoned written by Michael Keene and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of orphanages in New York and the Orphan Train Movement
Download or read book The Orphan Express written by David Bell and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of children taking a train to their deaths.
Download or read book The Orphan Trains written by Annette R. Fry and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the placing out of orphaned, poor, and abandoned children from eastern cities such as New York and Boston to homes in the West, begin by the children's Aid Society.
Download or read book The Orphan Trains written by Marilyn Irvin Holt and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting aside our present-day romantic notions about orphan trains, Holt's book sheds valuable new light on the phenomenon by putting it in the context of nineteenth-century ideals about childhood, the roles of social reformers, the changing theories of relief and welfare for the poor, western development, and rail expansion.
Download or read book Waifs Foundlings and Half orphans written by Mary Ellen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Orphan Trains Era, 1854 until 1929, an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned, or homeless children and families were relocated from major metropolitan east coast cities to new homes in the "west" traveling aboard trains. Children relocated via
Download or read book The Orphan Train written by John Furia and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
