Home is where the heart is
(Book)

When Wyoming rancher Sam Gallagher advertises in the New York Times for a housekeeper, Meg Wolverton, a young woman with a venturesome spirit, eagerly accepts the position. Being short on travel money, Meg hires on with the Children's Aid Society to help transport thirty homeless waifs from the slums of New York to loving homes all across America. The orphan train stops at every whistle-stop town along the way, hopefully matching up these rambunctious orphans with suitable families but a few manage to slip through the cracks. Three children still need homes when they arrive in Cheyenne. To make matters worse, Meg's employer is late meeting the train. Will he show up? Will she lose her job and wind up destitute with three orphans to support?