America 250 Series - Johnny Appleseed: Legend of America’s Pioneering Spirit, Born of the Revolution
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The episode explores the true story of Johnny Appleseed, revealing the man behind the legend and his contributions to American history.
🎙️Political Trade Secrets’ America 250 Series | Johnny Appleseed: Born of the Revolution, Legend of America’s Pioneering Spirit What is the real story behind Johnny Appleseed, and how did John Chapman become one of America’s most enduring legends? In this special America 250 episode of Political Trade Secrets , host Dustin Olson pulls back the curtain on the real John Chapman with Howard Means , best-selling author of Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story , and Ken Hammontree , living historian, Johnny Appleseed reenactor, performer of numerous historical figures, and author of There Was a Time . Chapman was born of the Revolution in Massachusetts, the son of a Revolutionary War Minuteman. As the new nation moved west, he moved with it, living on the edge of the frontier between wilderness and civilization. His life grew alongside the country itself, from Revolutionary-era birth to frontier nurseryman to American legend. But Johnny Appleseed was far more than the gentle children’s-book figure scattering apple seeds. Chapman was a landowner, businessman, missionary, pacifist, and American original who built a thriving apple tree business, helped settlers…
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