at fort logan, there was also an individual one might say was the buffalo soldier's buffalo soldier, jeremiah jones. jones has spent all his adult life as a black soldier in uniform. he had risen through the ranks highest you could go as an enlisted man, sergeant major of the ninth cavalry, and ultimately became a specialist, the man in charge of firearms, ammunition, all the things soldiers need in battle. he would serve his last post here at fort logan, dying march 20, 1906, unremembered, yet so one of the great men of the time. so this is part of the colorado story that is just a microcosm of the largest story of buffalo soldiers in the american west. i challenge you, no one has written the definitive story on not only the black soldier in like the very much excellent work on buffalo soldiers in new mexico, the larger story of the relationsnal -- between blacks, whites, indians. with that, i am at the end of my tale, and we will open up questions. keep them to a minimum, and my colleagues in passing amongst you with a microphone. -- they don'tme trust me, and i don't blame them ,