Frank Grouard -- 1850-1905, Indigenous peoples -- Wars -- North America -- 1866-1895, Indigenous peoples -- Wars -- North America, Indigenous peoples -- Wars 

""I would rather lose a third of my command than Frank Grouard!" Thus spoke General George Crook of his best scout. That the General's faith and confidence were well founded is shown by Grouard's record throughout his scouting career. From the officers under whom he served came the highest praise, but from his fellow scouts came bitterness, jealousy, and two attempts to take his life—all because of his uncanny knowledge of the Sioux, their habits, language, sighs, and customs, and the country through which they roamed.

First published in 1894, Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard is one of the most intimate, accurate, and valuable books about the Sioux and also one of the scarcest. Here published in a new edition, carefully edited and annotated by Edgar I. Stewart, is Grouard's story in his own words, "preserved," says Joe DeBarthe, a western newspaper correspondent and Grouard's biographer, "in shorthand as they fell from his lips."

Captured by the Sioux when he was nineteen, Frank Grouard spent seven years in the camps of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. "He made a firm resolve to turn the term of his captivity to good account," says DeBarthe. Thus when General Crook asked if he knew every rock in the Sioux country, Grouard could reply, without exaggeration, "I don't think I misstated a fact when I stated that I came pretty near it."

Grouard's battle record is equally impressive. He fought with Crook at the Rosebud and at Red Fork, was with Lieutenant Sibley on the famous Sibley scout, led several scouting expeditions through extremely desperate situations, and claims to have been the first white man to visit the Custer battlefield after the fight. His story will appeal to Western enthusiasts everywhere."--Book jacket. 

xxvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 

Includes index.