ON A COLD MONDAY MORNING in March, when a weak, pale sun struggled to shine and ice glistened in the cracks in the wooden street, a company of some twenty-two orphan children with stiff new clothes and little cardboard suitcases boarded a special railway car at the station near the Chicago River.
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A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and a life of unpaid slavery.
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Polish Americans, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Orphan trains, Survival, Orphans, History, Children's fiction, Polish americans, fiction, Orphans, fiction, West (u.s.), fictionPlaces
West (U.S.)Times
19th centuryShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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A twelve-year-old Polish American girl is boarded onto an orphan train in Chicago with fears about traveling to the West and to the hazards of a new life.
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