This earliest drawing of John Chapman appeared as a frontis PDF
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This earliest drawing ofJohn Chapman appearedasafrontis piece in H. S. Knapp's History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County, Ohio, 1863. Said to have been drawn in the 1850'S by astudent of Oberlin College who had knownChapman; it corresponds to the verbal description fur nishedto Henry Howein 1845by Miss RosellaRiceof Perrys ville. A later artist changedthe strange headgearto anormally brimmed hat and the result became the standard picture of Johnny Appleseed now engraved in American folklore. JOHNNYAPPLESEED: EARLIESTDRAvVING Johnny Appleseed MAN AND MYTH by Robert Price GLOUCESTER, MASS. PETER SMITH Copyright, 1954, by Robert Price Reprinted, 1967, by Permissionof Indiana UniversityPress DEDICATED TO H. WHO FOLLOWS ALL THETRAILS WITH ME ACKNOWLEDGMENTS author is grateful to the writers and publishers THE listed below for permission to quote specific passages from the works named: Appleton-Century-Crofts, "The Apple-Barrel of Johnny Appleseed," from Going to the Sun, by Vachel Lindsay; Frances Frost and the publishers, "American Ghost," Neu: York Herald Tribune, August 21, 1943; The Macmillan Company, "In Praise of Johnny Appleseed," from Johnny AppleseedandOther Poems,by Vachel Lind say; Rinehart and Company, "Johnny Appleseed," from A Book of Americans, copyright, 1933, by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet. CONTENTS FOREWORD xi PART ONE Into the Old Northwest I A Trail from New England 3 2 High Adventure on the Allegheny 20 3 Apples on the Border 35 4 The Johnny Appleseed Country 53 PART TWO The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness 77 5 The Watchman at the Gates 79 6 A Piece of Ground 102 7 A Very Extraordinary Missionary 119 PART THREE The Legend Takes Root 145 8 Portrait at Fifty 147 9 The Folk Tales Grow 161 PART FOUR Farther West lSI 10 Along the Land Bridge 183 1I To the Fort Wayne Summit 200 12 Last Journeys 209 Vll viii CONTENTS PART FIVE From Man to Myth 13 A Time to Die 14 The Vanity of Riches 15 The Legend Flowers APPENDICES NOTES 279 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 299 INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS Earliest Drawing of John Chapman Frontispiece FacingPage John Chapman's Birthplace 16 OfficialBirth Record 16 Boyhood Home of John Chapman 16 Longmeadow Meetinghouse 17 Simonds Homstead 17 Appletree Order 48 Johnny Appleseed Country (map) 48 Mount Vernon, Ohio (map) 49 JohnnyAppleseed Country: NorthCentralOhio 88 Mohican State Forest 88 Mansfield Blockhouse 89 Copus Massacre Monument 89 Black Fork Massacre: Newspaper Article 1°4 Zimmer Cabin 1°4 Ohio Country (map) 1°5 Mansfield Public Square 152 Artist's Concept of Johnny Appleseed 153 Application for Land 153 ix x ILLUSTRATIONS FacingPage "Here's your primitive Christian" 168 "The Tribes of the heathen ..." 168 Standard Johnny Appleseed 169 "News right fresh from Heaven" 169 Ashland Memorial 216 First Cabin in Richland County 216 Johnny Appleseed Memorial Bridge 217 Traditional Grave Site of John Chapman 217 The Maumee and Defiance 217 American Folklore Group 232 The Johnny Appleseed Theme in Commercial Advertising 232 JohnnyAppleseed'sLast Haunts: NorthwesternOhio 233 Ashland, Ohio 233 SPOT DRAWINGS BY H. LAWRENCE HOFFMAN
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