"Johnny Appleseed"  pages 286-305

Adapted by Pleasant deSpain  

Illustrated by Victoria Raymond

Summary

This play tells the legend of John Chapman, an American pioneer who planted many apple trees across the early frontier so that frontier families would have apples to eat.

Vocabulary

frontier: the part of the country at the edge of a settled area

nearby: not far away

orchards: areas of land where fruit trees are grown

survive: stay alive

tame: to bring under control or make more gentle

wild: in a natural state; not controlled by humans

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