Show STORIES OP OF GREAT SCOUTS SHARPE GROVER the best beat scout the government ever had said some of the army officers tor for whom sharpe grover scouted during the andain wars in kansas in 68 and more than once he be showed showed worthy ol of the title he had married marrea a sioux woman and lived with her tribe for years he could speak their language and knew their ways As a trailer and reader of signs grover was without a peer lle he could tell how long since the tracks had been made naother they were by horses or ponies shod al 01 unshod how many were ridden how many were ivere driven whether it was a war party or one moving irom from one camp to another when the sioux went the war path in 1868 grover left them and joined the army as scout tor for custer in august 1868 with billy comstock another noted scout be visited the camp oi of chief turkey leg of 0 the whose warriors were supposed to be friendly one ot of the indians however saw the fine pearl handled revolver volver le carried by comstock and determined to haven have it when the scouts left the camp seven rode away with them while engaged in friendly conversation the indians indiana suddenly dropped to the rear and opened fire comstock was killed instantly and grover badly wounded out but lying on oil the ground and making a desperate defense of Com stocks body lie ha fought off the indians until nightfall and escaped the next month grover joined gen G A forsythe Forsyt hs band of scouts and was with thom them at me celebrated Be becchers echers Bee chera island fight AS roman noses warriors choutea to tc each other grover understood everything they said and told forsyth what whai they were planning to co attar arter the biggest charge of the sioux and had been turned back forsyth turned to drover and said eald can they do better than that grover V 1 I have been on the plains man arid and boy for 30 years ana I 1 never saw such a charge before was tile the scouts reply 1 I thins they have done their level best all right were good tor for them t then said forsyth tn for years the face tac that grover was with forsyth that day was kept from the indians for he was friendly with them and they would have killed him without mercy nad they known later they did learn it and attempted several times to kill him but lie he always escaped unfortunately grover dran c heavily and a few years after tile beecher fight he was killed in a row at pond city near fort wallace an inglorious end for so great a scout |