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Oral Histories: Abstracts: Taylor Interview: Taylor Books Further Reading To learn more about the orphan train, visit these Web sites: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/ This site gives historical information about the orphan train, relates one boy's personal story, and lists over twenty related books suited to readers of different ages. For children to learn more about the orphan train, read: *Nixon, Joan Lowery. A Family Apart (OrphanTrain, No. 1)* . Laureleaf, 1996. This children's book, suitable for a nine- to twelve-year-old reading level, is the first in a series of seven about the orphan train. Set in the 1860s the popular series follows the lives and adventures of six siblings who travel by orphan train from New York City to live with farm families in Missouri. To learn more about German immigration in Texas, visit The Handbook of Texas Online, at: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/GG/png2.html This site offers a scholarly article filled with specific information on the numbers of German immigrants and the areas of Texas in which they settled. For more memoirs of rural Texas life in the early 1900s, see: Foote, Horton. Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood . Touchstone Books, 2000.** In this 288-page book, author and playwright Foote shares memories of his childhood in the small town of Wharton, Texas, in the early 1900s.
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