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 (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are ...
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Chickasaw
The Chickasaw ( ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee as well in southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as ...
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Natchez Natchez may refer to:
Places
* Natchez, Alabama, United States
* Natchez, Indiana, United States
* Natchez, Louisiana, United States
* Natchez, Mississippi, a city in southwestern Mississippi, United States
* Grand Village of the Natchez, a site o ...
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 area, unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi, Lowndes County, Mississippi.
Mayhew is located at west of Columbus, Mississippi, Columbus, north of Artesia, Mississippi, Artesia, east of Starkville, Mi ...
. Cushman, as a child, witnessed the Choctaw Indians' removal from 1831 to 1833. During the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
, 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
William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American botanist, ornithologist, natural historian and explorer. Bartram was the author of an acclaimed book, now known by the shortened title ''Bartram's Travels'', which chronicled ...
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Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone (September 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 beyond the we ...
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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 ...
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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
Gideon Lincecum (22 April 1793 – 28 November 1874) was an American pioneer, historian, physician, philosopher, and naturalist. Lincecum is known for his exploration and settlement of what are now the U.S. states of Alabama, Mississippi and Texa ...
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John R. Swanton
John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and et ...
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Historians of Native Americans
1820 births
1904 deaths
People from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
Confederate States Army soldiers