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035			_a(OCoLC)1045072640
092			_aWalters, W. _bW235
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aWalters, William, _eauthor. _9373814
245	1	0	_aA last survivor of the Orphan Trains : _ba memoir / _cWiliam Walters and Victoria Golden.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_a[Leominster, UK] : _bOrphan Books, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a364 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aFrom 1854 to the early 1930's, the American Orphan Trains transported 250,000 children from the streets and orphanages of the east Coast into homes in the emerging West. Unfortunately, families waiting for the trains weren't always dreams come true-many times they were nightmares. William Walters was little more than a toddler when his sister deposited him and his brother on an Orphan Train heading to destinations unknown. Separated from his brother and handed over to a cruel New Mexico couple, William faces a terrible trial. Through his strength and resilience, however, his life became a remarkable adventure. Whether he was escaping his abusers, jumping freights as a preteen during the Great Depression, infiltrating Japanese held islands as a teenage Marine during World War II, or courting the woman with whom he would finally build a loving home, William's astonishing quest paralleled the tumult of the twentieth century and personified the America dream.
600	1	0	_aWalters, William. _9373814
650		0	_aOrphans _vBiography. _9373815
650		0	_aOrphan trains _vBiography. _9373816
650		0	_aDepressions _y1929 _vBiography. _9373817
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _vBiography. _963389
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
700	1		_aGolden, Victoria, _eauthor. _9373054
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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