Anonymous #2 4w

I think Johnny Appleseed makes a good 3rd

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Anonymous #2 4w

Sure, but I don’t think Paul Bunyan really embodies the identity of America in the same way if that makes sense. Which it seems like we agree so I’m sure it does

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Anonymous #1 4w

I like Johnny Appleseed too. I honestly might put him above Bunyan tbh. He just feels more classic Americana. He’s this dirt poor kid from the countryside with an affinity for kindness toward both people and animals, who walks like a vagrant across the American west in frontier times, planting apple trees from the seeds he’d collect discarded at cider mills, and giving away the trees and fruit or selling them for low price. A kindly vagrant businessman and wildlife conservationist.

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Anonymous #1 4w

Plus he was both apparently a real dude, and died rich. So there’s that very American “make something from nothing” pull yourself up by your bootstraps rags to riches story. Granted I know far less about Paul Bunyan tho

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