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          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.
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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          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
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        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
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          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
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