Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard
Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard by Joseph DeBarthe
The true story of the one of the most thrilling figures of the Wild West. Grouard dictated his story to the author, first published in 1984, and considered a classic.
I must keep an edition of this book to read, as I heard many remarkable tales, notably that he was most probably the first white man to come upon the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Having spent years in captivity among the Souix, Grouard knew Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud.
In the Great Sioux War of 1876, he was a scout for General Crook's Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition that was supposed to unite with Custer's Seventh Cavalry to bring the Sioux and Cheyenne into reservations. Grouard fought with Crook at the Battle of the Rosebud just eight days before Custer was wiped out by the same Indians under Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
Grouard once carried urgent dispatches over one hundred miles in less than four hours, an incredible feat on horseback, and was instrumental in setting up negotiations for the final surrender after Wounded Knee. After the wars, he laid out the first all-weather mail route over the Big Horn Mountains, which he accomplished on foot in the dead of winter.
He claimed to have been born on an island in the South Pacific, the son of a Mormon missionary and his Polynesian wife. His great grandfather, Francis Grouard, was among the French Huguenots who fled France in the early 17th century, violently persecuted for their religion, and settled in the Americas.
Hardback - Very good condition published in 1958
Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard by Joseph DeBarthe
The true story of the one of the most thrilling figures of the Wild West. Grouard dictated his story to the author, first published in 1984, and considered a classic.
I must keep an edition of this book to read, as I heard many remarkable tales, notably that he was most probably the first white man to come upon the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Having spent years in captivity among the Souix, Grouard knew Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud.
In the Great Sioux War of 1876, he was a scout for General Crook's Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition that was supposed to unite with Custer's Seventh Cavalry to bring the Sioux and Cheyenne into reservations. Grouard fought with Crook at the Battle of the Rosebud just eight days before Custer was wiped out by the same Indians under Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
Grouard once carried urgent dispatches over one hundred miles in less than four hours, an incredible feat on horseback, and was instrumental in setting up negotiations for the final surrender after Wounded Knee. After the wars, he laid out the first all-weather mail route over the Big Horn Mountains, which he accomplished on foot in the dead of winter.
He claimed to have been born on an island in the South Pacific, the son of a Mormon missionary and his Polynesian wife. His great grandfather, Francis Grouard, was among the French Huguenots who fled France in the early 17th century, violently persecuted for their religion, and settled in the Americas.
Hardback - Very good condition published in 1958
Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard by Joseph DeBarthe
The true story of the one of the most thrilling figures of the Wild West. Grouard dictated his story to the author, first published in 1984, and considered a classic.
I must keep an edition of this book to read, as I heard many remarkable tales, notably that he was most probably the first white man to come upon the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Having spent years in captivity among the Souix, Grouard knew Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud.
In the Great Sioux War of 1876, he was a scout for General Crook's Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition that was supposed to unite with Custer's Seventh Cavalry to bring the Sioux and Cheyenne into reservations. Grouard fought with Crook at the Battle of the Rosebud just eight days before Custer was wiped out by the same Indians under Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
Grouard once carried urgent dispatches over one hundred miles in less than four hours, an incredible feat on horseback, and was instrumental in setting up negotiations for the final surrender after Wounded Knee. After the wars, he laid out the first all-weather mail route over the Big Horn Mountains, which he accomplished on foot in the dead of winter.
He claimed to have been born on an island in the South Pacific, the son of a Mormon missionary and his Polynesian wife. His great grandfather, Francis Grouard, was among the French Huguenots who fled France in the early 17th century, violently persecuted for their religion, and settled in the Americas.
Hardback - Very good condition published in 1958
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Language : English
Paperback : 268 pages
Dimensions : 6.25 x 1 x 9 inches