Horatio Bardwell Cushman (August 13, 1820 – October 18, 1904) was an American historian. He is known for writing a ''History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians.'' The book is well known source for
Choctaw
The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...
,
Chickasaw
The Chickasaw ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Their language is ...
, and
Natchez Indian history.
Personal life
Cushman was born on August 13, 1820, in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. He was the son of missionaries who worked at
Mayhew, Mississippi
Mayhew is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi.
Mayhew is located west of Columbus, north of Artesia, east of Starkville and south of West Point. According to the United States Geological Survey, a variant name is ''May ...
. Cushman, as a child, witnessed the Choctaw Indians' removal from 1831 to 1833. During the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861May 26, 1865; also known by Names of the American Civil War, other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union (American Civil War), Union ("the North") and the Confederate States of A ...
, Cushman served as a private in the
43rd Mississippi Infantry. After the War in 1868, Cushman moved to Texas near the Red River where the Choctaw Nation was found. In 1884, Cushman began writing his Choctaw and Chickasaw history. He spent six years researching for the book. It was first printed in 1899. He died on October 18, 1904, and was buried in Greenville, Texas.
Works
* 1899. ''History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians.'' Norman: University of Oklahoma.
See also
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Timothy H. Ball
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William Bartram
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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (, 1734September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyo ...
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Cyrus Byington
Cyrus Byington (March 11, 1793 – December 31, 1868) was a Christian missionary from Massachusetts who began working with the Choctaw in Mississippi in 1821. Although he had been trained as a lawyer, he abandoned law as a career and became a mi ...
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Angie Debo
Angie Elbertha Debo (January 30, 1890 – February 21, 1988),
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Henry S. Halbert
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Gideon Lincecum
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John R. Swanton
References
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Historians of Native Americans
1820 births
1904 deaths
People from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
Confederate States Army soldiers