item: #1 of 14 id: chapter_00-foreword author: None title: chapter_00-foreword date: None words: 302 flesch: 65 summary: Jonathan Chapman was a pioneer, missionary, fur trader, explorer and conqueror. He worked as an orchardist in the Middle West. He was a Puritan, half mystic, half poet, a lover of nature and of his fellow-men. He lived a long life of solitary and perilous wandering. keywords: day cache: chapter_00-foreword.txt plain text: chapter_00-foreword.txt item: #2 of 14 id: chapter_01-frontier_orchard author: None title: chapter_01-frontier_orchard date: None words: 4162 flesch: 82 summary: Johnny Appleseed slept on the bench in the sapling stoop that shaded his cabin door and woke up to the fragrance from the orchard. He was aroused by the blowing of bugles from boat-yards, landings and ferries along the water-front in Pittsburg. The rivers had risen in the night. There was a procession of emigrants to be ferried across to Ohio, and river craft that had lain stranded in back-water to be loaded and set adrift. Jonathan Chapman, orchardist, swarmed like an untidy ant-hill. keywords: johnny; man; men; orchard; seeds; town; trees; water cache: chapter_01-frontier_orchard.txt plain text: chapter_01-frontier_orchard.txt item: #3 of 14 id: chapter_010-fresh_fields author: None title: chapter_010-fresh_fields date: None words: 6384 flesch: 82 summary: Johnny's orchards grew in the Ohio River Valley after the war, but John-ny was not there to see them. The year 18 hundred and twenty-five was marked by the completion of the Cumberland Road to Wheeling, Virginia, and by the journey to the new West of the Marquis de Lafayette. keywords: betty; country; fire; johnny; mary; men; pony; prairie; river; seeds; trees; way; wind; years cache: chapter_010-fresh_fields.txt plain text: chapter_010-fresh_fields.txt item: #4 of 14 id: chapter_011-winter_the_deep_snow author: None title: chapter_011-winter_the_deep_snow date: None words: 5161 flesch: 84 summary: Johnny went to the Grand River in June of 1830 to plant seeds for fall plant- ing with the missionary priests. Johnny had spent three decades of his life planting in wild places. He was sensitive to disturbances in nature's harvests. The year 1830 was the year of the big wind. keywords: doctor; ethan; house; johnny; men; snow; storm; weather; wind; winter cache: chapter_011-winter_the_deep_snow.txt plain text: chapter_011-winter_the_deep_snow.txt item: #5 of 14 id: chapter_012-undying_love author: None title: chapter_012-undying_love date: None words: 5647 flesch: 83 summary: Betty died in October. Mary took a scarlet cloak from Betty's wardrobe-chest and wrapped it around Blossom to keep her warm in the cold. Dr. Hildreth thinks another storm is coming and Mary should be brave. keywords: betty; cold; day; ethan; johnny; mary; snow; trees; water cache: chapter_012-undying_love.txt plain text: chapter_012-undying_love.txt item: #6 of 14 id: chapter_013-shining_goal author: None title: chapter_013-shining_goal date: None words: 5804 flesch: 81 summary: Johnny talked for an hour with God. He loved his mother. Johnny is growing old, but he doesn't know it. He has a lot of physical strength, but also a vitality that will stand him in good stead. keywords: day; ethan; eyes; johnny; mary; men; orchard; people; road; way; years cache: chapter_013-shining_goal.txt plain text: chapter_013-shining_goal.txt item: #7 of 14 id: chapter_02-wilderness_trail author: None title: chapter_02-wilderness_trail date: None words: 4915 flesch: 85 summary: Johnny sold his orchard in Pittsburg for a sum that would buy him a good horse and saddle, leather saddle-bags, a bushel of apple-seeds, a blanket, a rifle, a small bag of meal and a lump of salt, a gun, fishing-tackle, a hoe, rake and hatchet, a coil of rope and a hunting-knife, Flint and steel for fire-building, Bible and a small sum of money. keywords: horse; indians; johnny; man; night; road; seeds; trail; way; woods cache: chapter_02-wilderness_trail.txt plain text: chapter_02-wilderness_trail.txt item: #8 of 14 id: chapter_03-good_samaritans author: None title: chapter_03-good_samaritans date: None words: 5232 flesch: 84 summary: Johnny is on his way to Marietta from the Muskingum. He stopped at each cluster of cabins for a day or two to put in a small nursery. He found a clearing at which he asked to use any bit of waste land suitable for his purpose. keywords: betty; doctor; good; johnny; kitt; lake; man; marietta; mary; new; seeds; way cache: chapter_03-good_samaritans.txt plain text: chapter_03-good_samaritans.txt item: #9 of 14 id: chapter_04-queen_the_fairy_island author: None title: chapter_04-queen_the_fairy_island date: None words: 4245 flesch: 84 summary: Betty wants Johnny to see Mrs. Blennerhasset, the Queen of the Fain- Island, who lives in a big whitepalace on Isle le Beau, across from Belpre. Her father was Gen. Agnew of the English army, and she wears his colors. keywords: belpre; blennerhasset; head; horse; island; johnny; mrs; river; water; woods cache: chapter_04-queen_the_fairy_island.txt plain text: chapter_04-queen_the_fairy_island.txt item: #10 of 14 id: chapter_05-on_the_bloody_way author: None title: chapter_05-on_the_bloody_way date: None words: 4453 flesch: 83 summary: Johnny went on a journey between the lower Muskingum and Scioto. He followed a trail that ran northeast from Belpre to Big Rock, forty miles above Marietta. It was an important part of "The Bloody Way," the old warrior's path that ran from Lake Erie to the Gulf. Since the close of the war white settlers had been slowly widening it into a road. Johnny wanted to make friends and to select sites for next year's planting. keywords: fire; food; forest; indian; johnny; man; men; shelter; summer; trees cache: chapter_05-on_the_bloody_way.txt plain text: chapter_05-on_the_bloody_way.txt item: #11 of 14 id: chapter_06-vision_romance author: None title: chapter_06-vision_romance date: None words: 5252 flesch: 86 summary: Johnny planted his first orchard near the Indian border about the new home in Marietta. He cleared the plantations, strengthened the broken barriers, replanted the plots and gave them to the care of the best men to be found. On the morrow he meant to have a gathering of the heads of households for the first distribution of trees. keywords: betty; david; door; heart; home; johnny; lake; life; mary; men; trees cache: chapter_06-vision_romance.txt plain text: chapter_06-vision_romance.txt item: #12 of 14 id: chapter_07-home_on_the_indian_border author: None title: chapter_07-home_on_the_indian_border date: None words: 4947 flesch: 87 summary: Johnny left Pittsburg in the spring of 1811 with his seeds. He wanted to reach Betty's home on the Indian border for a day's rest in apple-blossom time. His labor of love had prospered and his nurseries everywhere were cared for. keywords: betty; children; david; day; house; johnny; new; orchard; trees; year cache: chapter_07-home_on_the_indian_border.txt plain text: chapter_07-home_on_the_indian_border.txt item: #13 of 14 id: chapter_08-tragedy author: None title: chapter_08-tragedy date: None words: 5108 flesch: 85 summary: After the outbreak of the early spring the Indians fell into a sullen apathy. Johnny helped them by sending supplies to settlements as distant as Marietta and Piqua. In October there was better feeling and more food stored for winter in the Indian country of northwestern Ohio. Tecumseh and The Prophet had their armed camp to defend the lands of the Miamis from a proposed government survey. General Harrison forced the battle of Tippecanoe in November. keywords: betty; border; children; corn; horse; indians; johnny; ohio; people; water cache: chapter_08-tragedy.txt plain text: chapter_08-tragedy.txt item: #14 of 14 id: chapter_09-savior_the_refugees author: None title: chapter_09-savior_the_refugees date: None words: 5135 flesch: 86 summary: Johnny ran down the creek, leaped ferociously, and then ran back to the nursery. Betty was crouched with the children in the cave-like hollow at the back behind the plantation of apple-twigs. The Indian maid, Princess Nelly Logan, of 1 lqua, stood aloof until Mary-go-'round. keywords: betty; children; dog; guard; indian; johnny; little; night; people; river; woods cache: chapter_09-savior_the_refugees.txt plain text: chapter_09-savior_the_refugees.txt