Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard A Cultural History

Name: Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9781421407296

ISBN-10: 1421407299

ISBN-13: 9781421407296

Edition: 2012

Authors: William Kerrigan

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Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman’s life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated. Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects the oral tradition of the Appleseed myth and draws upon material from archives and local historical societies across New England and the Midwest.The character of Johnny Appleseed stands apart from other frontier heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, who employed violence against Native Americans and nature to remake the West. His apple trees, nonetheless, were a central part of the agro-ecological…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

William Kerrigan is Arthur G. and Eloise Barnes Cole Distinguished Professor of American History at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio.



List of Maps and Figures


Preface


Introduction



Seeds



Becoming Johnny Appleseed



Suckers



Walking Barefoot to Jerusalem



To Serve God or Mammon?



Yankee Saint and the Red Delicious


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index