000434045 000__ 03602cam\a2200349\a\4500 000434045 001__ 434045 000434045 005__ 20210513151806.0 000434045 008__ 110207s2011\\\\nyuab\\\\b\\\\001\0beng\\ 000434045 010__ $$a 2011000665 000434045 019__ $$a730926748 000434045 020__ $$a9781439178256 000434045 020__ $$a1439178259 000434045 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn646112955 000434045 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dMCT$$dABG$$dCDX$$dMOF$$dVP@ 000434045 042__ $$apcc 000434045 043__ $$an-us---$$an-usc-- 000434045 049__ $$aISEA 000434045 05000 $$aSB63.C46$$bM43 2011 000434045 08200 $$a634/.11092$$aB$$222 000434045 1001_ $$aMeans, Howard B. 000434045 24510 $$aJohnny Appleseed :$$bthe man, the myth, the American story /$$cHoward Means. 000434045 250__ $$a1st Simon & Schuster hard cover ed. 000434045 260__ $$aNew York :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$cc2011. 000434045 300__ $$a320 p. :$$bill. maps ;$$c25 cm. 000434045 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000434045 5050_ $$aRight fresh from heaven -- Roots -- Breaking away -- Land, ho! -- Down to business -- A calling -- In country -- The plan -- Man to myth -- The last frontier -- Final rites -- Appleseed unbound -- Blessings three -- Epilogue: My Johnny. 000434045 520__ $$a"This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American life and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. It is a book that does for America's inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage did for its western one. No American folk hero--not Davy Crockett, not even Daniel Boone--is better known than Johnny Appleseed, and none has become more trapped in his own legends. The fact is, John Chapman--the historical Johnny Appleseed--might well be the best-known figure from our national past about whom most people know almost nothing real at all. One early historian called Chapman "the oddest character in all our history," and not without cause. Chapman was an animal whisperer, a vegetarian in a raw country where it was far easier to kill game than grow a crop, a pacifist in a place ruled by gun, knife, and fist. Some settlers considered Chapman a New World saint. Others thought he had been kicked in the head by a horse. And yet he was welcomed almost everywhere, and stories about him floated from cabin to cabin, village to village, just as he did. As eccentric as he was, John Chapman was also very much a man of his times: a land speculator and pioneer nurseryman with an uncanny sense for where settlement was moving next, and an evangelist for the Church of the New Jerusalem on a frontier alive with religious fervor. His story is equally America's story at the birth of the nation. In this tale of the wilderness and its taming, author Howard Means explores how our national past gets mythologized and hired out. Mostly, though, this is the story of two men, one real and one invented; of the times they lived through, the ties that link them, and the gulf that separates them; of the uses to which both have been put; and of what that tells us about ourselves, then and now"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000434045 520__ $$a"A biography Johnny Appleseed, both the historical person and the legendary figure" --$$cProvided by publisher. 000434045 60010 $$aAppleseed, Johnny,$$d1774-1845. 000434045 650_0 $$aApple growers$$zUnited States$$vBiography. 000434045 650_0 $$aFrontier and pioneer life$$zMiddle West. 000434045 85200 $$bgen$$hSB63.C46$$iM43$$i2011 000434045 85642 $$3Cover image$$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers/1247/2154010/image/lgcover.9781439178256.jpg 000434045 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:434045$$pGLOBAL_SET 000434045 980__ $$aBIB 000434045 980__ $$aBOOK