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One man, four treatments. Steven Fortriede, Johnny Appleseed: The Man Behind the Myth (Fort Wayne Public Library, 1978) — the local librarian's account, written from the Fort Wayne records. Robert Price, Johnny Appleseed: Man and Myth (Indiana University Press, 1954) — the scholarly biography. William Kerrigan, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) — the cultural history; the 1817 Manchester society report and the Swedenborgian ministry are traced here through Kerrigan to their sources. W. D. Haley, "Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1871 — the article that built the legend, read in the ACPL's 1955 reprint, whose own foreword is part of the evidence.
What it proved here: the folklore leg prints John Chapman's documented life (the nursery business, the land dealings, the death on 18 March 1845 settled from the Fort Wayne Sentinel's own obituary notice of 22 March 1845) separately from the legend's growth, and each of these four works is assigned to its proper side of that line. A caution the notes record: an early working citation of Kerrigan carried the year 2010; the book is 2012, and the citation in this record is corrected.
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- The folklore leg.