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The life and adventures of Frank Grouard, chief of scouts, U.S.A
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Part First: Preface / Joe De Barthe, Sheridan, Wyo. [Wyoming], Nov. 1, 1894
Family history: Ancestry ; Birth and boyhood
"The silent man of the plains": Some curious errors ; From the village of the Redman to the camp of the frontier army
Preliminary observations: Recalling the causes of the Indian troubles, the Phil Kearney massacre, and the Black Hills stampede [gold rush]
Grouard's own story: Starts out as a mule skinner and goes to Helena in 1864 ; Some characteristic incidents
The Helena flour famine: How one man made a fortune ; Plenty of gold, but nothing to eat
"Liver-eating Johnson": The Montana militia ; Establishing the pony express from Musselshell to Forts Peck and Hall ; Captured by the Blackfeet ; An awful experience
Grouard's first Indian fight: Giving assistance to the besieged wood-choppers ; Eleven "good" redskins
Captured by the Sioux: Sitting Bull gives an evidence of good intentions ; A hard trip to the Indian village
Taken to the hostile camp: Silence of the captors ; Grouard's second meeting with Sitting Bull ; The great chief's notable speech before the Council and its effect
The kindness of White Cow: Attacked by a strange sickness ; Visions of bread ; The realization
Grouard makes a ten-strike: The old flint-lock [flintlock] does noble execution and astonishes the Natives ; The beginning of a new life for the captive
Indian courtship: Some of the means employed to secure a life partner ; Possession not always ownership
Sitting Bull leads a desperate charge: How a band of Crow horse thieves were driven into the rocks and slaughtered ; The courage of the Uncapapa chief
An Indian jamboree: The "invisible spirit of wine' ; Everybody drunk, and murder the order of the day ; Grouard seeks safety in flight ; Mourning for the slain ; A harrowing recital
Sitting Bull tries to kill Grouard: The captive's endeavor to bring the halfbreed miscreant to justice ; His trip to Frenchman Creek and its result
Sees Custer and hears "Garryowen [Garry Owen]": Grouard witnesses a fight between the troops and Indians and has a narrow escape from death
Grouard meets Crazy Horse: Leaves the village of the Uncapapas and begins life in the village of the Ogallalas ; Something about Crazy Horse and his family
Torturing the captive: The manner in which the Indians proved Grouard's nerve ; Four hours of unceasing pain ; Pronounced "good medicine"
In a rattlesnake den: An experience Grouard remembered vividly and often dreamed of afterward ; Millions of reptiles
Indian characteristics and customs: Many of the aborigine's traits of character, and something about his religion ; Ceremonials
Saved by a pony: Strayed from the band and nearly cut off by marauding Crows ; A number of the Sioux hunting party killed during a buffalo hunt
Establishing a reputation: Grouard goes on a hunt and saves the village from starvation ; Slaughtering elk by the score
"The way of the transgressor": Breaking a law of the Council and narrowly escaping death in consequence ; Safety found in narrow washout
Factional differences: How an old feud started a murderous row in the village of the Minneconjoux ; Sitting Bull acts as peacemaker and steals his own ponies
Fasting for eight days: One of the very worst experiences Grouard had while in captivity ; Two of his Indian companions die after reaching camp
Massacre of the Gros Ventres: An entire village wiped out by the Blackfeet ; Their bodies left for wolves to prey on
One way of cooking meat: Grouard takes his first lesson in Indian cooking ; Shooting life and light into the sun
Grouard regains his freedom: He joins a raiding party and steals his way to the Red Cloud Agency ; His efforts to aid the making of the Black Hills Treaty
Grouard meets Gen. [General] Crook and accepts an offer to enter the government service
Looking for Indians: The spring campaign of 1876 ; Leading Crook's command into the Indian fastnesses ; Finding the first hostile village
The battle with Crazy Horse: Crook's order's [orders] disobeyed ; Destroying enough provisions to supply a large army ; Suffering of the troops ; Crook's anger
Close of the spring campaign: How the Indians compute distances ; Reshaw's jealousy of Grouard's knowledge of the Indians ; Starting scandalous stories
Working off bile: Grouard attends a halfbreed dance ; Big Bat gives evidence of his friendship and a knowledge of fisticuffs
In a tight place: Surrounded by hostiles and outwitting them ; Dummies used to good advantage
Through the hostile country: Shooting a herder ; Accidental shooting of a soldier
A perilous journey: "Left Hand" ; Finding friends when preparing to meet enemies ; A hand-shaking tournament
Battle of the Rosebud: Wounding of Col. [Colonel] Guy V. Henry ; Heroism of the Ute John ; Both hands shot away ; The trap to catch the command in the Rosebud Canyon ; Crook unwillingly gives of the chase of the hostiles
The Custer massacre: Some startling facts ; Length of the battle ; Only seven Indians killed ; How Custer died ; Who was the officer?
A miraculous escape: The famous Sibley Scout ; Grouard's account ; Lieut. [Lieutenant] Sibley's version ; Hon. John F. Finerty's story ; Crazed by excitement and fatigue ; Saving the entire party
Something about scouting: Trying to stampede the mules and horses ; Hunting for the hostile trail ; Capt. [Captain] Jack Crawford ; Bill Hamilton's adventure
The Slim Buttes Fight: Grouard appropriates two fine horses ; Lieut. Lieuttewitz wounded ; McClinton recaptures one of Custer's guidons ; Killing of Buffalo Chips ; Big Bat takes a scalp ; Death of American Horse ; Burning the village
A wonderful ride: One hundred and one miles in four hours and ten minutes ; How Grouard "scooped" a newspaper ; The official dispatches ; Lifted from the saddle and forced to remain in bed three days
The "hearty laugh cure": Strange manner in which Grouard was suddenly cured of a serious sickness ; The Laramie school girls
Battle of Red Fork: Gen. Crook determines to teach the Cheyennes a lesson ; Grouard kills Chief Little Wolf ; Dull Knife's defeat and his ineffectual appeal to Crazy Horse for assistance
California Joe: Accused of a crime he never committed ; Murdered in cold blood at Robinson by Thomas Newcomb ; Custer's description of the noted plainsman
Surrender and death of Crazy Horse: Plot of the Ogallala chief to massacre the whites at Red Cloud Agency ; Breaking faith ; Killing of the Chief ; His manly qualities and bravery ; Some reminiscences ; The closing scene
After horse thieves and holdups: Grouard has a varied experience with the knights of the road ; Trying to capture Frank James
Caught in a blizzard: The fresh young man from West Point ; Grouard plots the "Sage Brush Expedition" safely through an awful storm ; Gratitude of the soldiers
The Nez Percés War: The most remarkable campaign on record ; Capture of Chief Joseph and band at Bear Paw Mountain
Midnight stampede: Frank James ; How a commanding officer prevented a meeting between the noted highwayman and Grouard ; Frank James afterwards saves Grouard's life
Capturing a road agent: Merchant Tillotson's luck ; Llewellyn plays a cute dodge and Grouard's life comes near paying the forfeit ; "Holdup Hall" and the scout's early morning visit
The killing of McGloskey: One of the most noted of horse thieves attempts to shoot Grouard and is killed by the scout ; Cursing with is last breath
Sitting Bull: Some of the great chiefs leading characteristics ; No laggard ; The last of all the Sioux to surrender
The Sword Bearer trouble on the Crow Reservation: Medicine that proved disastrous ; A tempest in a teapot
The South Dakota outbreak: Responsibility for it ; Much light through government reports ; The killing of Sitting Bull ; Destroying Big Foot and his band ; End of the war
Grouard's life up to date: His love of animals ; Something about his famous horse ; His last services.
Part Second: General George Crook: His military services, his methods and success ; Equal to every emergency ; "This was a man"
General George A. Custer: Army record ; A dashing, daring officer who never had been introduced to fear
John F. Finerty: "The Fighting Correspondent" ; His career as journalist ; Honored by the people ; His book, "Warpath and bivouac"
Wyoming Indians of today: Something about grand old Chief Washakie ; Sharp Nose, Head Chief of the Arapahoes ; Black Coal, the war-chief
Multum in parvo: Ben Clarke, whose reputation as a scout does not rest upon fiction ; A characteristic letter
An old-timer's story ; Some of the stirring events in the life of O. P. Hanna, who broke the first sod in Sheridan County ; Anecdotes
A sample one-horse holiday: How the highwaymen enjoyed themselves at the expense of T. J. Foster and family ; The friendship of Frank James
Battle of Horse Shoe Creek: Seven settlers against three score Sioux and Minneconjou Indians ; Terrible experience of seven brave men ; Crazy Horse makes a treaty
"Battle of By Cripes": Story related by one of the participants ; "Pap" Conant's predicament ; How the skirmish received its name
Scouts: A few words about some of the noted plainsmen who figure in the Grouard narrative.
Illustrations: Yours truly, Frank Grouard / Trone, Sheridan, Wyoming
Joe DeBarthe [De Barthe]
B. F. Grouard (father of Frank / Trone
Mrs. Louisa B. Pratt (Grouard's foster mother)
Charles E. Grouard (brother of Frank)
Big Goose Canyon, above Sheridan, Wyo.
Reservation Crows
Kirkpatrick's Ranch, Prairie Dog Valley, with massacre hill on the left
Wa-Ka-Pamane (Annuity) of Spirit Lake massacre fame
An Indian runner [studio]
Wild Hog, high chief of the Cheyennes
Ready for the dance
Two Indian beauties
Cloud Peak, highest point in Big Horn Range
Old Crow, a "friendly"
An Indian society belle [studio]
Chief Gall [drawing]
Birdseye view of the City of Sheridan, Wyoming
Sioux lodges
An Indian courier [studio]
Three young Sioux braves [studio?]
Preparing for the Omaha Dance
The old woman who lived in a tepi [tipi, teepee] (not shoe)
Frank Grouard, at 26
B. F. Grouard, at 45
Major E. G. Fechet, capturer of Sitting Bull
Fred Newcomer's Ranch, Prairie Dog Valley, Sheridan County, Wyoming
Col. W. F. Drum, commander of Fort Yates in 1890-1891
Tongue River Canyon, above Dayton, Wyoming
Colonel Guy V. Henry
Captain John G. Bourke
General George A. Custer / Custer Post, Grand Army of the Republic, St. [Saint] Joseph, Missouri
Major General A. H. Terry [drawing]
Major-General John Gibbon
The Little Big Horn [River] below Crow Agency [tipis]
Rain-in-the-Face, reputed slayer of Custer
The Custer monument [Montana]
Lieutenant F. W. Sibley
Scene near the Sibley battlefield, Big Horn Range [Gateway Castle home] / H. F. Peterson & Co., Denver, Colorado
Baptiste Garnier (Little Bat) [with bow and arrow, traditional? dress]
Colonel Anson Mills [drawing]
Wm. [William] J. McClinton, who recaptured the Custer guidon
Colonel T. H. Stanton [drawing]
Brigadier-General Wesley Merritt [drawing]
Baptiste Gaunier [Garnier] (Little Bat) [with rifle, white man's clothes]
Colonel George M. Randall [drawing]
Frank Grouard, at 30
Crook's old camping ground
present site of Sheridan, Wyoming [Valley of the Big Goose River]
Grave of Crazy Horse's daughter
Spotted Tail
Old Crow [seated on chair, with revolver in hand]
Curley [Curly], the only survivor of Custer's command [studio]
Thomas J. Foster, one of the "old-timers"
Sitting Bull, after his return from the British possessions [Canada?] [drawing]
Yankton Charlie
Yellow Wood's camp, near Pine Ridge
Woman's Dress [Woman Dress] [Indian police?]
Pretty Eagle and Shoshone friend
Ration Day at Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Gen. George Crook, in "campaign uniform"
Hon. John F. Finerty, "the fighting correspondent"
Washakie, chief of the Shoshones
Sharp Nose, chief of the Arapahoes [Arapahos]
Black Coal, war chief of the Arapahoes
Ben Clarke, a brave man and clever scout
O. P. Hanna, first settler in Sheridan County [studio]
Mrs. T. J. Foster, the first northern Wyoming lady settler
Capt. John Smith, one of the "Horseshoe Fight" heroes.
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Subjects
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse, -- approximately 1842-1877
Grouard, Frank
Grouard, Frank, -- 1850-1905
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
James, Frank
James, Frank, -- 1844-1915
Johnston, John
Johnston, John, -- 1824?-1900
Milner, Moses Embree
Milner, Moses Embree, -- 1829-1876
Pourier, Baptiste
Pourier, Baptiste, -- 1843-1928
Rosebud, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
Scouts (Reconnaissance)
Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull, -- 1831-1890
Slim Buttes, Battle of, S.D., 1876
Wars
West (U.S.) -- Biography
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
Crazy Horse, -- approximately 1842-1877
Grouard, Frank
Grouard, Frank, -- 1850-1905
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Wars -- 1866-1895
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
James, Frank
James, Frank, -- 1844-1915
Johnston, John
Johnston, John, -- 1824?-1900
Milner, Moses Embree
Milner, Moses Embree, -- 1829-1876
Pourier, Baptiste
Pourier, Baptiste, -- 1843-1928
Rosebud, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
Scouts (Reconnaissance)
Scouts (Reconnaissance) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull, -- 1831-1890
Slim Buttes, Battle of, S.D., 1876
Wars
West (U.S.) -- Biography
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
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