African American soldiers known as the Buffalo Soldiers helped protect Yosemite National Park in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and their legacy continues to be celebrated today through ...

On assignment in Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks for three summers—1899, 1903, and 1904—the Buffalo Soldiers accomplished many other things, too. They chased away wild-game poachers and foiled ...

Presley says roughly 500 buffalo soldiers served as park rangers in Yosemite, Sequoia, Hawaii and Glacier National parks. Following the presentation, there was a reception with light refreshments ...

For thousands of years, the Ahwaneechee Indians occupied the area we know today as Yosemite ... black man to be put in charge of a national park, soldiers built the first trail to Mount Whitney ...