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Johnny Appleseed: Man and Myth
Robert Price
Orange Frazer Press
May 2001
On Sale: May 1, 2001
348 pages
ISBN: 1882203739
EAN: 9781882203734
Hardcover
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"Please--no apple blossoms!" protests author Robert Price,
speaking of
his approach to the Johnny Appleseed story. For over a
quarter century
Mr. Price has followed the circuitous trail of the elusive
folk hero.
Says the author: "Perhaps my bent for the outdoors, travel,
and music
shows up in this book. John Chapman's story has only
recently emerged
from a cloud of popular sentimentalism to become a major
national myth
in which 'Johnny Appleseed' is a symbol of everything good
associated
with the development of the land. To show this evolution, I
have tied
his drama not just to history and folklore, but to American
topography.
Most of his trail I have trampled or driven over from
Leominster,
Mass., to Fort Wayne." After
rural school teaching and country newspaper reporting in the
Middle
West, the author graduated from Denison University, took
M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from Ohio State University and is now professor of
English at
Otterbein College. Mr. Price has written John Chapman: A
Bibliography of "Johnny Appleseed" in History, Literature
and Folklore,
and articles for the New England Quarterly and other
magazines. The
Library of Congress awarded him a grant-in-aid to complete
the study
for the present book.
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