Title | Johnny Appleseed: The Romance of the Sower |
Year of Publication | 1915 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 341 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Atkinson, Eleanor [Stackhouse] |
Tertiary Authors | Merrill, Frank T. [Thayer] |
Publisher | Harper & Brothers |
City | New York |
Keywords | flatboats; John Chapman (1774-1845); missionaries; New Church (Swedenborgianism); nurserymen; pioneers; Protestants |
Abstract | A biographical novel of the semi-legendary John Chapman (1774-1845), best known as “Johnny Appleseed.” The first two chapters dramatize his Pittsburgh years of the 1790s, where he lived and farmed on Grant’s Hill. |
Author Biography | Eleanor Atkinson (1863-1942) was a Chicago writer and teacher. Frank T. Merrill (1848-1936) was an illustrator. |
Time | 1790s |