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Show FAMOUS SCOUT WAS . A FORMER' UTAH MAH ' .Frank Grouard,' tamous Indian scout of the days of Sitting Bull, who died at St. Joseph Mo., recently, might well be called ' one of 'the.. Utah boys, as he spent his younger days .as a resident of Bait Lake: City,' He came here in the early fifties from California with Orson Pratt's family. -At the time of his death Grouard had retired from ' the army on a pension of $160 a month. His work in the United States service and the building of the West made him one of the most prominent figures on the Western frontier. ' Grouard was born in the South Pacific Pa-cific islands, September. 20, 1850. His father was a missionary, and his mother moth-er was the daughter of a native king. When he was 3 years old he came to the United States., and later to Utah. He lived here until he was 19 years old. After that be went to Montana, where he was captured by the Indians and kept in captivity until he was 25 years old. Then he escaped and joined the United States service. |