When I was young we wrte told the Johnny Appleseed story but I remember it as being taught as a simple story, not as history. It wasn’t until much later that I realized that Mr. Chapman was a real person and that he did plant apple seeds
Considering how apples were turned into clean drink, it appears that Mr. Chapman was a great benefactor to the people of America. Amazing what you can do with a simple shovel and a bag of seeds.
My grandfather grew apples and made cider back in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Some of it, probably most of it, was hard.