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03052aam a2200469 a 4500 001 B7531ACCD96E11E2852716CDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130620010023 008 120516s2012 mdua b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2012012916 020 $a 1421407965 (electronic) 020 $a 9781421407968 (electronic) 020 $a 1421407299 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781421407296 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 1421407280 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781421407289 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)793973547 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BWX $d CDX $d SDB $d UPM $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d NSB $d IX2 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usc-- $a n-usc-- 050 00 $a SB63.C46 $b K47 2012 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Kerrigan, William, $d 1963- 245 10 $a Johnny Appleseed and the American orchard : $b a cultural history / $c William Kerrigan. 260 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2012. 300 $a xii, 231 p. : $b ill. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Seeds -- Becoming Johnny Appleseed -- Suckers -- Walking Barefoot to Jerusalem -- To Serve God or Mammon? -- Yankee Saint and the Red Delicious. 520 $a This work 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, the author 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 revolution at the heart of that transformation. Yet men like Chapman, who planted trees from seed rather than grafting, ultimately came under assault from agricultural reformers who promoted commercial fruit stock and were determined to extend national markets into the West. Over the course of his life John Chapman was transformed from a colporteur of a new ecological world to a curious relic of a pre-market one. Weaving together the stories of the Old World apple in America and the life and myth of John Chapman, this book casts new light on both. 500 $a New Book -- June -- 2013 600 10 $a Appleseed, Johnny, $d 1774-1845. 650 0 $a Apple growers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z Middle West $x History. 941 $a 6 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091046.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829012416.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204064945.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110050909.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021335.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826061614.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B7531ACCD96E11E2852716CDDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IX2Initiate Another SILO Locator Search