Paying no attention to them, I galloped up and overtook General Reynolds.

Saluting him, I said: "General, I have come to report for duty." "Who in thunder are you ?" he demanded, looking at me without a sign of recognition in his eye.
"Why, general," I said, "I am to be your guide on this expedition." He looked at me a second time, and a grin spread over his face.
"Can it be possible that you are Cody ?" he asked.

I told him that I was Cody.
"Let down your hair," he commanded.

I took off my hat, and my hair fell over my shoulders.

A loud yell went up from both officers and enlisted men, as the word went up and down the line that the dude they had been bedeviling was none other than Buffalo Bill.
Texas Jack and the scouts who were ahead had heard the noise and came galloping back.
"Welcome back, old chief!" shouted Jack, and the scouts gathered around me, shaking my hand and congratulating me on my safe return from the dangers and the perils of the East.
The general asked me how far it was to the Loup Fork.