LITTLE GANGS
It is Winter, 1863. The brutal American Civil War rages on. In the midst of the chaos, police and well-meaning charity organizations “rescue” its indirect victims, the orphaned and feral children living on the mean streets of Manhattan, Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. Their effort’s poorly coordinated sweep herds thousands of homeless kids onto “orphan trains”, scattering the children into rural communities across 25 Union states.
Some young refugees will be adopted into the protection of caring homes. Others will be sent into new versions of Hell.
In the disposition/disappearing process, deposited into the ongoing horror of the tragic, violent, fiery cauldron of Missouri and the “Bleeding Kansas” conflict, one lost boy comes of-age.
As his determined mother, sister, an acclaimed detective and their assistants sift through the clues to track his whereabouts, they learn about many ironic, tragic and dramatic stories resulting from the 19th century “orphan train” movement.
This is Book Four of Gar LaSalle’s award-winning Widow Walk Saga.
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