10 Facts About Gideon Lincecum

Gideon Lincecum was an American pioneer, historian, physician, philosopher, and naturalist.

Gideon Lincecum had good relations with Native Americans as he explored the wilderness in the American South.

Gideon Lincecum spent his boyhood principally in the company of Muskogees.

Gideon Lincecum sought a new frontier in 1868 and, at the age of seventy-six, with a widowed daughter and her seven children, joined a Confederate colony in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico.

Gideon Lincecum died on November 28,1874, after a long illness at his Longpoint, Texas, home.

Gideon Lincecum had contact with Chickasaw, Creek, and Choctaw peoples before the Indian removals of the 1830s began.

Gideon Lincecum learned how to speak and write their languages, learned about their medicine, and recorded their history.

Gideon Lincecum frequently visited an elderly Choctaw man named Chahta Immataha, who gave him a detailed account of Choctaw's oral history.

Gideon Lincecum regularly corresponded with like-minded individuals, including Charles Darwin on two occasions.

Gideon Lincecum published numerous articles in scholarly scientific journals and came to be recognized as a thorough and respectable researcher, despite his lack of formal education.