| Edition |
First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition. |
| Description |
320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-302) and index. |
| Contents |
Right 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 -- My Johnny. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Appleseed, Johnny, 1774-1845.
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Apple growers -- United States -- Biography.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West.
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| ISBN |
9781439178256 hardback $26.00 |
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1439178259 hardback |
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