Wendy McClure

Author and Professional Obsessive.

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Books

Hopkinson, Deborah. Shutting out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924. New York: Orchard/Scholastic, 2003.

Reef, Catherine. Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America. New York: Clarion Books, 2005.

Warren, Andrea. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Warren, Andrea. We Rode the Orphan Trains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 

Video

American Experience: The Orphan Trains. 60 minutes, PBS Home Video, 2006.

Websites

Kancoll.org/articles/orphans
An online collection of historical news articles, photos, and other primary sources related to the orphan trains in Kansas.

Orphantraindepot.org
The website for the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas has information about the museum as well as several pages of orphan train rider stories.

Pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan
Website for the PBS documentary about the orphan trains includes a teacher’s guide.

 

Hello! Over the past few years my creative work and professional life has shifted into areas that are little more private and analog than they used to be. But I'll still share what I've been up to, and this year (2026) will update this site accordingly. Please sign up for update emails if you want to catch up! (I'll also post an update to my Substack, but not sure if I'll have new content there.)