The Choctaws had nothing to do with it.

It was the Seminoles and Creeks--principally the former.
The immediate cause of the trouble was the attempt on the part of the Government to remove those tribes to the country west of the Mississippi.

They didn't want to go, and they were determined they wouldn't; and, consequently, they got themselves decently whipped.

If Arthur was thirty-five years of age when he went into the war, and spent two years in it, he was thirty-seven when he came out." "After the war closed," continued Arthur, "I went to Patagonia, and there I spent five years." "Thirty-seven and five are forty-two," said Archie, to himself.
"I had a great many thrilling adventures in Patagonia.

The country is one immense desert, and being directly under the equator, it is--if you will for once allow me to use a slang expression--as hot as a frying-pan.