The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-01-26
CHIEF OF ARMY SCOUTS.
Frank Guard, Who Was Reared by {
Sioux and Shot Sitting RuII.

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Sioux and Shot Sitting Bull,
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 fortunes of the sun
dance, was declared a brave and be-
came in all things save race a savage
of the plains.
Knowing the hopelessness of the
Indian outbreak that brought about
the Custer massacer, Guard deter
mined to desert to the whites. He
was detected and pursued. The In.
dams shot his horse as Guard swan
a river and lodged four bullets in the
f%ugitive's body. Believing that he
was slain, they ceased the pursuit,
but Guard reached the shore, and,
wounded as he was, continued his
journey to Crooks camp. On the way
he read afar the Indian signal fires
announcing the massacer of Custer
and his men. He brought the news
into Crooks camp, 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 ex-
tracted, and Guard, mounted on
Crooks favorite 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 ap-
preached and asked who he was. He
replied, "Sitting Bulls brother. The
Indian asked half dozen other ques-
lions and finally asked Guard how it
was that he rode a grain fed 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, un-
blanketed his face and looked him in
the eyes.
ugh, Frankl" said the Indian,
starting back and turning to run.
Guard permitted him to get within
ten feet of the shelter of a 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 savages death in it's cruelest
guise would be his fate. He escaped
from the savages after hearing them
debate as to the most unpleasant
method of death for the prisoner.
Upon II occasion Guard, then out
as a scout, became convinced that he
and the command, under a lieuten.
ant, must certainly fall into the
hands of the Crows unless the troops
slew their horses and crept away in
the darkness. The officer was un-
willing to Stay the horses, but Guard
said that he meant to escape at once.
This convinced the officer, and all
the horses saw one were killed.
That one was left by a fire to attract
the savages, and the men crept for
miles on their bellies and escaped.
On 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
ever 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 quick
ness, shot him dead. When there is
a dangerous duty to be done up
about Fort Mckinney, Guard is the
man to do it. He went after a noted
desperate with a warrant not long
since and was met with a bullet from
a winchester. Guard dismounted in
~leisurely fashion, took aim and sent
a bullet through the desperado's
forehead.
Guard is likely to have a chance
for further distinction. He believes
that the government has not had the
last of its Indian wars, and that an.
other uprising at Pine Ridge is in
evitable. That would be accompanied
by uprisings at other agencies and a
good deal of trouble. Guard has
been constantly warning his superb
ors on this head.-New York Sun.