About the Book

Out of the Foundling,
Into the Fire

    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.

Mail-Order Kid
from Marilyn June Coffey
and "out West" Press
ISBN 978-0962631726, 6x9", 300 pgs.





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    Mail-Order Kid: An Orphan Train Rider's Story is also available as a digital download on all devices with access to the Amazon Kindle e-store. These include the Amazon Kindle, the Apple iPhone and iPad as well as Android and Blackberry mobile devices.

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