53 min
Episode 146 - America's Orphan Trains Weird World Podcast
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- Society & Culture
New York had tons of street children. Farmers in the midwestern U.S. needed help shucking corn. So putting a bunch of orphans on trains to Kansas to be claimed by farmers was a win-win, right?
Sources:
Prairie Public short videos
https://www.history.com/news/orphan-trains-childrens-aid-society
Orphan Trains Brought Homeless NYC Children to Work on Farms Out West by Erin Blackmore
Riding An Orphan Train West in 1859, A Tough Street Kid Named John Brady Formed a Friendship With Fellow Orphan Andrew Burke. One Would Grow Up to Govern Alaaska; The Other, North Dakota By Victoria Mechler
https://www.cowboysindians.com/2017/05/orphan-train-friends-and-future-governors/
New York had tons of street children. Farmers in the midwestern U.S. needed help shucking corn. So putting a bunch of orphans on trains to Kansas to be claimed by farmers was a win-win, right?
Sources:
Prairie Public short videos
https://www.history.com/news/orphan-trains-childrens-aid-society
Orphan Trains Brought Homeless NYC Children to Work on Farms Out West by Erin Blackmore
Riding An Orphan Train West in 1859, A Tough Street Kid Named John Brady Formed a Friendship With Fellow Orphan Andrew Burke. One Would Grow Up to Govern Alaaska; The Other, North Dakota By Victoria Mechler
https://www.cowboysindians.com/2017/05/orphan-train-friends-and-future-governors/
53 min