Meet America’s Buffalo Soldiers—some of the nation’s first park rangers. On a clear fall day in California in 1903, a group of soldiers and civilians, both African American and Caucasian, gathered in ...

They were protecting Sequoia National Park ... For Johnson, the most important thing now is sharing the story of the Buffalo ...

Young distinguished himself as a soldier in the Ninth U.S. Cavalry, one of the black troops known as the Buffalo Soldiers that served ... American acting national park superintendent at Sequoia and ...

They were sent to Sequoia and General Grant National Parks ... Under Acting Superintendent Young's leadership, the Buffalo Soldiers kept the park free from poachers, and from the ranchers whose ...