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THE BURROUGHS / CUSHING CONNECTION

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Captain John G. Bourke's Influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs
http://www.erbzine.com/mag34/3482.html
A few relevant excerpts linking ERB to Cushing:
. . . The question remains, did Burroughs read all of On the Border With Crook or at least the chapters that dealt with Apache wars? ERB attended the Michigan Military Academy in the1890s. The Academy would have had a library. On the Border With Crook would probably have been in that library. It is just the sort of book that a young Edgar Rice Burroughs, filled with visions of military glory, would have perused with relish.

. . . several similarities between elements found in On the Border With Crook and some of ERB's writings. One of these was Bourke's mention of certain caves with "peculiar medicine qualities, which would prevent an enemy from gaining possession of it." Such medicine caves are reminiscent of the strange cave that John Carter discovered in his flight from hostile Apaches in Chapter One of A Princess of Mars.

. . . There is another parallel that can be noted between On the Border With Crook and A Princess of Mars. That is the striking resemblance between the real-life First Lieutenant Howard Bass Cushing and ERB's second most famous fictional hero, Captain John Carter. Bourke served as Lt. Cushing's junior officer in Troop F, Third Cavalry in 1870-'71. Apaches in 1870 and he became Bourke's mentor and friend.

. . . Many of the details sound suspiciously similar to ERB's portrayal of John Carter in Arizona. Like John Carter, Howard Bass Cushing was an army officer who had fought in the Civil War (albeit on the side of the North). John Carter went west after the War of Rebellion, landing in Arizona Territory. Cushing was ordered to the Southwest by the army, arriving first in New Mexico and later in Arizona Territory. Cushing and Carter were both professional soldiers. Carter had a desperate encounter with hostile Apaches. Cushing and his troop had many bloody encounters with Apaches.

 . . . In the foreword to A Princess of Mars ERB reveals that John Carter "had been prospecting and mining in Arizona part of the time since the war . . ." Captain Carter related in his  manuscript that he and his partner Powell had located a "remarkable gold bearing quartz vein" from which they extracted "over a million dollars worth of ore." Bourke describes in On the Border With Crook (pg. 98) how he, Cushing, and Troop F (with stories of lost Spanish mines "ringing in our ears") searched out an opened a long abandoned silver mine at the urging of one of their Mexican guides.
More in 3483

Captain John Bourke's
ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK
and
THE MEDICINE MEN OF THE APACHE
http://www.erbzine.com/mag34/3483.html

ERB References for the
THE APACHE NOVELS II: The War Chief ~ The Apache Devil
http://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1154.html

General Charles King Tribute
Bio / ERB Connection / Bibliography
http://www.erbzine.com/king/

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