Johnny Appleseed

Ages 4–106 minAmerican

The gentle half-legend of John Chapman, who walked the young American frontier planting apple orchards and became the folk hero Johnny Appleseed.

A gentle barefoot frontiersman walking a sunlit dirt path through young apple saplings along a stream, soft leather seed bags over his shoulder, a tin cooking pot on his head, a distant log cabin in calm golden light. — Adapted from W. D. Haley's 1871 account 'Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero' (Harper's New Monthly Magazine) and the life of the real frontier nurseryman John Chapman.

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