THE ORPHAN TRAINS and Newsboys of New York

The Orphan Trains and Newsboys of New York is a nonfiction American history composition about the trains that departed New York City carrying more than 250,000 children from various East Coast orphanages. During a span of seventy-five years, these trains traveled to all points West across the United States in an effort to find the children families and homes. The placing out in America became known as the largest mass migration of children ever to take place in US history never to be duplicated