30 Facts About Frank Grouard

Frank Benjamin Grouard was a Scout and interpreter for General George Crook during the American Indian War of 1876.

Frank Grouard was General Crook's lead scout at the Battle of the Rosebud participated in the Slim Buttes Fight, Battle of Red Fork, helped to assess the immediate aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Frank Grouard moved to Utah with his parents and two brothers in 1852, later moving to San Bernardino in California.

Frank Grouard was probably accepted by them as an Indian because his Polynesian features resembled those of the Sioux.

In 1876, Frank Grouard became a Chief Indian Scout in the United States Army under General George Crook, fighting Sioux Indians.

When Sitting Bull heard that Frank Grouard was Crook's Chief Scout, he saw an opportunity to kill him in battle.

Frank Grouard followed the trail left by two hostiles, who had been spotted the previous day, all through the night, even when their tracks were covered during a snowstorm.

Frank Grouard was a major participant in the Rosebud campaign, and saw action in the Battle of the Rosebud.

Between 9 and 10 in the morning of June 25,1876 Crook's forces were in Goose Creek Valley when Frank Grouard saw the smoke from Indian signal fires in the distance, which indicated that George Armstrong Custer's command was engaged with the enemy, outnumbered, and being badly pressed.

Frank Grouard has been blamed by some as being instrumental in the subsequent death of Crazy Horse.

When he was challenged over his interpretation, Frank Grouard left the council.

Frank Grouard claimed that he was present when Crazy Horse was killed.

Frank Grouard was present at the Yellowstone Expeditions and the Battle of Slim Buttes.

Frank Grouard was assigned to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during the Ghost Dance Uprising and was present at the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.

Frank Grouard later served as a US Marshal in Fort McKinney, Buffalo, Wyoming and was involved in the Johnson County War of 1892.

In 1878, Frank Grouard received a message from Montana Sheriff Tom Irvine that two Wyoming men had stolen horses in Yellowstone, and to be on the look out for them.

Frank Grouard took off for O'Malley's dance hall, located a couple miles from the fort and noticed a crowd of people around it.

Frank Grouard noticed a man by the name of McGloskey, a possible army deserter, riding one of the stolen horses.

McGloskey put spurs to his horse and as he rode past Frank Grouard he fired his revolver at him, barely missing people in the crowd.

When he got a hundred yards near the end of town, he stopped his horse for another shot, but Frank Grouard shot him off his horse with his carbine.

Frank Grouard made a quick stop at the wounded outlaw who was being attended to by one of the spectators, saw that he was still alive, then proceeded upon a fourteen mile chase for his partner, who ended up escaping.

Frank Grouard died that night at eight o'clock hurling curses at me with his very last breath.

Benjamin Frank Grouard then travelled to Sheridan, Wyoming, where he immediately recognized his son despite a forty-year separation.

Frank Grouard was married in Amazonia, Missouri on April 10,1895 to Lizabell "Belle" Ostrander.

The marriage seems to have been brief or Frank Grouard was mostly absent from his wife and family for public records primarily list his wife and sons as living with the latter's parents.

Grouard's son Benjamin F Grouard was married at St Joseph, Missouri on November 28,1912 to Ethel M Poe.

Frank Grouard died at St Joseph, Missouri in 1905, and was buried at Ashland Cemetery.

Frank Grouard appears in Flashman and the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser as the illegitimate son of Flashman and Cleonie Frank Grouard, Flashman's mistress and a slave and prostitute.

Fraser has Frank Grouard being brought up by Indians after Flashman sells his pregnant mother Cleonie to the Navajo.

Frank Grouard Richards was cast in the same episode as Sitting Bull.