In other words, he would have a company of black scouts from the Tenth Cavalry.
Major Armes at once notified the garrison that Buffalo Bill was coming to Fort Aspen, and what his intention was regarding the band of black scouts.
There was excitement at once in the garrison, and the colored troopers were delighted that the great borderman was going to show his confidence in them by taking his scouts from their regiment.
“Now we’ll blow de Injuns off de farm.”
“You better believe I speaks fer bein’ a nigger scout.”
“Annudder nigger heah does say de same.”
“Wonder if Massa Bill gwine ter brack hissef up so as ter look like us?”
“Won’t dem red niggers git up an’ lead us brack scouts arter ’em?”
“An’ I guesses dem palefaces as wants ter go inter de Promised Lan’ will tarn back an’ settle somewhar else.”
Such remarks and others of a like kind ran the rounds of the colored troopers, when they heard the good news that Buffalo Bill was coming, and better still that he intended to pick men from their regiment for his scouts.