Johnny Appleseed / Holland, Gini

Relates episodes from the life of Johnny Appleseed, a man who wandered the Ohio Valley in the 1800s planting apple trees and making friends.

Martin Short is a delight as Johnny Appleseed, the American legend who traveled the frontier wearing a burlap sack, sporting a pot for a hat, and carrying a pouch full of apple seeds. Born John Chapman, Johnny loves apples and animals more than anything else. When he's a young man out on his own in the world, Mother Nature (Anne Jackson) visits him in a dream, says there's a shortage of apple trees, and assigns him the task that ultimately makes him famous. - cover.

When the pioneers came into the wilderness, they found little apple trees growing. That is how they knew Johnny Appleseed had been there.

Relates episodes from the life of Johnny Appleseed, a man who wandered the Ohio Valley in the 1800s planting apple trees and making friends.

Presents the life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, describing his love of nature, his kindness to animals, and his physical fortitude. SUBJECTS: Biography, United States, Frontier and Pioneer Life, Respect, Heroes.