Train 19 : Duggars All Aboard Save! Duggars All Aboard
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Train 19 : The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book) Look! The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Bison Book)
Order Now Before Price Up. Publisher By Bison Books. 'From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out', an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Wes ....
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Train 19 : The railway journey: Trains and travel in the 19th century Save on! The railway journey: Trains and travel in the 19th century
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Train 19 : Lizzie Borden Look! Lizzie Borden
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Train 19 : Across America on an Emigrant Train Popular Across America on an Emigrant Train
Order Now Before Price Up. Publisher By Sandpiper. An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West. ....
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Train 19 : LA Rug Trains, Planes & Trucks Rug 19"x29" Popular LA Rug Trains, Planes & Trucks Rug 19"x29"
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Train 19 : Circus Trains (Book 19 in "Trains" Album of Railroad Photographs) Best Seller! Circus Trains (Book 19 in "Trains" Album of Railroad Photographs)
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Train 19 : Jesse James and the First Missouri Train Robbery Save on! Jesse James and the First Missouri Train Robbery
Order Now Before Price Up. Publisher By Pelican Publishing. Jesse James and his notorious gang at the height of their careers. ....
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Train 19 : In The Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures) Look! In The Face of Danger (Orphan Train Adventures)
Order Now Before Price Up. Publisher By Laurel Leaf. Shy Megan Kelly cannot forget the day a gypsy read her palm announcing to all that she would bring trouble to those around her. Afterward, trouble does follow her, until she takes the necessary steps to free herself from the burdens of fear, loneliness, and superstition. ....
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Train 19 : Wells, Fargo & Co. Stagecoach and Train Robberies, 1870-1884: The Corporate Report of 1885 with Additional Facts About the Crimes and Their Perpetrators Best Seller! Wells, Fargo & Co. Stagecoach and Train Robberies, 1870-1884: The Corporate Report of 1885 with Additional Facts About the Crimes and Their Perpetrators
Order Now Before Price Up. Publisher By McFarland. In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B. Hume and special agent John N. Thacker published a report summarizing the company's losses during the previous 14 years. It listed 313 stagecoach robberies, 23 burglaries, and four train robberies but included little or no details of the events themselves, focusing instead on physical descriptions of the robbers. Widely circulated, the report was intended to assist law enforcement in identifying and apprehending the criminals believed still to present a danger to the company. The present volume revisits each crime, updating Hume and Thacker's original report with rich new details culled from local newspapers, personal diary entries, and court records. ....
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