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2026-01-24 15:37 UTC

Correct, it was a land grab scam based on the laws of the time. IIRC, if he planted trees it was then his land because he was using it, so he could then sell it for actual money. This was after the military had killed or chased out the natives who lived on it, of course.

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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 16:08

> IIRC [You don't recall correctly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed#Life), and I have no idea where you got that information. Appleseed actually was a successful businessman who bought some land, owning about 1200 acres (~5 km^2^), but by all accounts he was a genuinely good person, and I've never heard what you're saying (and not substantiating) that he did.

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@in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 2026-01-24 16:33

Sorry for the YouTube link, if anyone can find it hosted elsewhere let me know I'll update my post. https://youtube.com/watch?v=aD_Tyj-wbC4 Johnny never really profited. By all accounts he was likely neurodivergent and Apple Trees were his special interest. His labor and efforts to educate others was leveraged by others to snatch land up and proof of improvement to the land for homesteading. The US government was absolutely at fault for the genocide of indigenous peoples. But Johnny was at worse a useful idiot and at best a roving horticulturist who wasn't very good at owning land.

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@kali_fornication@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 15:59

more like johnny crappleseed amirite?

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