title: Into the West: A New Home - Limited Edition: Part Two of the First Book in The Territories Saga Serials (Volume 2)
author:  Stephen Burckhardt 
description: <span>This saga is very personal for me. The idea for this story came from a friend&apos;s family. My friend&apos;s great-aunt had been a Jewish refugee in New York City. Somehow she came to be on the Orphan Train, no one seemed to know how. She was taken in by a family in Kansas. I wanted to find out more about children who rode the Orphan Train so I visited the Orphan Train museum in Concordia, KS.&#xA0;</span><br /><span><br /><span><span>This story was built from bits and pieces from what I learned in the museum, my friend&apos;s great aunt&apos;s stories, and from my own family. I have relatives who spent time in a children&apos;s home in Tulsa, OK in the 40s. The more dramatic scenes in the foundlings home are based on the stories my family told me about their time in the children&apos;s home.&#xA0;</span><br /></span><br /><span><span>The story is not the only thing inspired by my friends and family.&#xA0; Many of the character names I use come straight from them, with their permission of course. If you read the acknowledgments in the front of the books it will tell you from whom my characters take their names.</span><br /></span><br /><span><span>I had the first novella,&#xA0;</span><i>Into the West: The Orphan Train</i><span>, released on what would have been my grandmother&apos;s 100th birthday. We lost her in May at 99 and a half. She loved reading westerns. When I was younger and worked in a bookstore, I would take her bags of westerns to read. It was amazing how many she could go through in a month. I like to think she would have loved my story. &#xA0;&#xA0;</span><br /></span><br /><span><span>I never would have even been able to write this book series if it weren&apos;t for the efforts of two people: my mother and my better half,&#xA0;P.R.. My mother has always encouraged (sometimes nagged and even threatened) me to write. Something I needed. P.R. made it possible for me to take the time to do it. I wouldn&apos;t be where I am if it weren&apos;t for the two of them.&#xA0;</span><br /></span><br /><span><span>So much of me and my life is tied up in these stories. It&apos;s like I&apos;m giving small parts of myself to each character and sharing it with my readers. If they are well received, liked, hated, pitied, loved, it&apos;s all welcomed. My greatest desire is to make my readers care about these characters, to evoke an emotional response. To move another person with my creation is the best feeling in the world</span></span></span>.
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  First published by Westland Publications Private Limited in 2019
  
  
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  Copyright © Prem Sagar 2019
  
  
  ISBN: 9789388754804
  
  
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  Dedicated  
  
  
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  my jeevan janani mother  
  
  
  MAHADEVI LEELAVATI
  
  
    
  
  
  the pran—the atma—of the Sagar 