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... Book Review: Johnny Appleseed - WSJ.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The primitive businessman had no overhead but sky. He carried an ax, a scythe and a hoe. Nature watered his trees, and for transportation he used those callused feet. He usually slept outside. He dined on nuts and berries "straight out of the John the Baptist cookbook," Mr. Means says—although eating locusts, he adds, "would have taxed Chapman's animism."