{"product_id":"mail-order-kid-an-orphan-train-riders-story-9780962631726","title":"Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Marilyn June Coffey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Out West Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Out West Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe massive orphan train exodus whisked three-year-old Teresa from the safety of her New York orphanage, where the worst thing the Foundling nuns did was wash her curly black hair, to a desolate house and cold-hearted \"parents\" in Kansas. There she entered a small and strange Volga German world whose inhabitants spoke a language she had never heard. In this odd world, she encountered whippings and sexual abuse. Perhaps half a million children, like Teresa, were plucked from orphanages and shipped by rail (or \"relocated\") to nearly every state in the Union from 1854 to 1929. Mail-Order Kid looks at the orphan train movement through the eyes of one small child who yearns to know her \"real\" mother, survives a tortured childhood, and ultimately, as an adult, comes to terms with her past, her faith, and herself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Out West Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45503794118807,"sku":"9780962631726","price":1478.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780962631726.webp?v=1767454712","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/mail-order-kid-an-orphan-train-riders-story-9780962631726","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}