The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
FRANK GUARD, THE SCOUT,
Who Was Reared by the Sioux and
Shot Sitting Bull.
From the New York SUM-

VINO was Reared by the S1OuA anu
Shot Sitting Bull.
IFrom the New York SUM-
Frank Guard, chief of scouts in the
United States army, is esteemed by the
people of Wyoming as more than a
rival of Buffalo Bill. Guard comes of
mixed French and Kanaka parentage.
His parents were slain by the Sioux in
crossing the plains, and the lad fell
into the hands of the savages. He was
a. manly youngster, and he so pleased
Sitting Bull that the chief adopted
him and brought him up. The youth
in due time went through the Sun
Dance was declared a brave, and be
came in all things, save race, a savage
of the plains.
Knowing the 1lopelessness Of the In
dian outbreak that brought about the
Custer massacre Guard determined to
desert to the whites. He was detected ID
and pursued. The Indians shot his
horse as Guard swan river and
lodged four bullets in the fugitive
body Believing that he was slain,
they ceased the pursuit, but Guard
reached the shore, and, wounded as he
was, continued his journey to Crook s
camp. On the way he read affair the
Indian signal fires announcing the mas
sacre of Custer and his men. He
brought the news into Crooks cap and
the latter asked whether Guard could
lead to the scene of the battle. Guard
said he could if Crook would have his
wounds dressed and let him have a
good horse.
The bullets were extracted, and
horse, rode away. He reached the
battlefield to find Custer and his men
lying stiff in their blood. AS Guard,
his Indian blanket about him and his
hand to his forehead, Indian fashion,
sat watching the scene an Indian APP
preached and asked who he was. He
replied Sitting Bulls brother. The In
dian asked half a dozen other ques-
lions, and finally asked Guard how it
was that he rode a granted horse.
Guard replied that he stole it from a
white man. Finally the Indian de-
manded his name. Guard, seeing that
the Indian was unarmed, unblanketed
his face and looked him in the eyes.
ugh, Frankr' said the Indian, start.
ing back and turning to run. Guard
permitted him to get within ten feet
of the shelter of tree and then shot
him dead.
From that time to this Guard has
been true to the whites. Sitting Bull
once offered 1000 ponies for his scalp
and Guard always knew that should
he ever fall into the hands of the saw
ages death in it's cruelest guise would
be his fate. He escaped from the saw,
ages after hearing them debate as tc
/ the most unpleasant method of death
for the prisoner. Upon one occasion
| Guard, then out as a scout, became
convinced that he and the command
under a lieutenant, must certainly fall
into the hands of the Crows unless the
troops slew their horses and crept
away in the darkness. The officer was
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Guard said that he meant to escape
at once. This convinced the officer
and all the horses save one were killed
That one was left by fire to attract
the savages, and the men crept fol
miles on their bellies and escaped. Or
that night Guard, with tears in his
eyes, killed the horse that Crook gave
him. According to tradition that is
the only time that any man eyer saw
Guard cry.
Guard was the man who finally
killed Sitting Bull, when the old saw,
age refused to give up his arms. Sit
ting Bull made ready to shoot as
Guard, his foster son, approached, but
Guard, with characteristic quickness
shot him dead. When there is a dan
gerous duty to be done UP about Fort
Mckinney Guard is the man to do it
He went after noted desperate with
a warrant not long since and was met
with a bullet from a Winchester
Guard dismounted in a leisurely man,
ner, took aim and sent a bullet through
the desperado's forehead.
Guard is now "A years old, and If his
apprehensions are well founded ne is
likely to have a. chance for further dis
tinction. He believes that the govern
ment has not had the last of it's Indiar
wars, and that another uprising a
Pine Ridge is inevitable. That would
be accompanied by uprisings at othel
agencies and a good deal Of trouble
Guard has been constantly warning
| his Superiors on this head.