Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i Volcanoes National Parks.

These soldiers were known as the Buffalo Soldiers and a group of them helped protect Yosemite National Park. “Every time you walk out in Yosemite, you’re going to see something you’ve never ...

Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, departed their encampment in Monterey, California, for five months of field duty.

Colonel Charles Young lived a remarkable life, overcoming racism and injustice to become a respected military officer, park steward and inspirational leader. In 1884, Second Lieutenant Charles Young ...

“If you had that kind of sense that you were as good as anyone else, that could get you killed in the South,” says Shelton Johnson, an interpretive ranger in Yosemite National Park who helped revive ...

making him the first African-American to be put in charge of a national park. Under Acting Superintendent Young's leadership, the Buffalo Soldiers kept the park free from poachers, and from the ...

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 ...