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Post by halsherman on Dec 12, 2006 21:14:17 GMT -5
The Indians didn't harm him because they thought of him as a Medicine Man. He tramp all over Ohio and left his traces and died at Fort Wayne Indiana. He was a strange, but real man and hero to the Pioneers, not just a legend. The Old Harpers Magazine has an eight page story about him that's worth reading Then you will know the story of Johnny Appleseed. mason.gmu.edu/~drwillia/apple/ja1sm.html |
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Post by Matthew S. Schweitzer on Dec 18, 2006 23:13:43 GMT -5
I've always found the Johnny Appleseed story to be a really interesting one...especially because it is true. Or at least mostly true. I remember first getting interested in his story around the time my Dad got me to watch the movie RainTree County with Elizabeth Taylor. The film itself takes place during the Civil War and has little really to do with Johnny Appleseed, but the symbolism of the mythical "RainTree" supposedly planted in a secret location by Jonny Appleseed somewhere in the wilds of Indiana in the latter days of the 18th century when he was spreading his crop of apple trees across the Old NorthWest was intriguing. I later read all i could about Old J.A. and have found that his story is an inspiring one of self-sacrifice for his fellow man.
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Post by belleville on May 31, 2007 21:39:00 GMT -5
I have an old newspaper article that claims John Chapman was known to sleep on the hearth of my ancestor's (Caleb Palmer) cabin at New Haven OH. Also locally he ran from Mansfield to Mt. Vernon OH (about 35 mi.) to get the militia and back when appeared that Mansfield was at risk of an Indian attack in the War of 1812.
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