The Orphan Trains

These presentations, based on Dorothea Petrie's meeting with a man who had been placedout in Dysart, Iowa, in 1894, gave to a large general audience one story of the placing-out system.

Marilyn Irvin Holt, former director of publications at the Kansas State Historical Society; is a freelance editor, writer, and researcher and teaches historical editing at the University of Kansas.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Ideals, Demands, and Motivations	p. 9
A Plan for "Little Wanderers"	p. 41
Others "Think of a Home Over There"	p. 80
A Plan Embattled	p. 118
The Close of an Era	p. 156
Epilogue	p. 188
Notes	p. 195
Bibliographical Essay	p. 225
Index	p. 237
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