Mail-Order Kid
An Orphan Train Rider's Story
by Marilyn June Coffey
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Pub Date May 06 2010 | Archive Date Oct 03 2017
Concierge Marketing Inc. | "out West" Press
Description
The 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.
Advance Praise
Winner of the National Orphan Train Complex's Special President's Award
"Everyone who met her loved her. Marilyn Coffey has caught the real Jessie Teresa on the pages of this book."
-Mary Ellen Johnson, Founder and Executive Director, Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780962631726 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
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