Text and photos describe the off-reservation boarding schools run by white Americans that many Native American children were forced to attend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Text and photos describe the use of "orphan trains" during the nineteenth and early twentieth century in America: the practice of sending homeless or neglected city children west on trains to find homes with new families--yet they were often chosen to be farmhands rather than family members.
Explores the experiences of American children who traveled west to Oregon or California on wagon trains between 1841 and 1869, focusing on transportation, chores, recreation, and dangers.