Recent biographies of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, have portrayed him as anything from a schizophrenic wandering ascetic to a hedonistic pleasure-seeker. But who was the real man behind the misconceptions?

In this spiritual biography, Ray Silverman explores three sides of Johnny Appleseed: businessman, conservationist, and spiritual trailblazer. As a businessman, Chapman owned nineteen nurseries and twenty other land holdings throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, brokering deals that belie the popular image of him as a wandering nomad with a tin pot on his head. As a conservationist, he worked to cooperate with the land, not only growing trees but collecting and distributing the seeds for which he is so well known. But it is only when we talk about Chapman's spiritual convictions
that we come to the core of who he was: a thoughtful and also joyful Christian who was deeply moved by the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.

The picture that emerges is of a lighthearted person whose convictions led him to seek harmony not only in nature, but also in the spiritual realms—and to share his bounty with as many people as he could.

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