The year is 1903 in Yosemite National Park. Sergeant Elijah Yancy is fierce, tenacious, and brave, and better known as a ...

- [Shelton] In 1904, the Buffalo Soldiers here in Yosemite built what is considered to be the first museum in the National Park system. It was an arboretum near the south fork of the Merced.

2003-02-01 04:00:00 PDT Yosemite National Park-- A couple of years ago, ranger Shelton Johnson made an amazing discovery deep in the archives of Yosemite National Park -- he came face to face with ...

WASHINGTON -- In the late 19th century and early 20th century, black troopers called the “Buffalo Soldiers” patrolled Yosemite and Sequoia national parks in California. But many visitors to ...

The charms of Northern California are legendary, from cosmopolitan San Francisco and the wine country of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, to the scenic coastlines of Carmel and Big Sur. Equally popular ...

These national park trails were created by America’s first Black soldiers. Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai ...

Yosemite National Park, in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range, was one of the nation's first wilderness parks, created in 1890. It has granite cliffs towering over deep valleys, spectacular ...

Yosemite National Park ranger Shelton Johnson has spent a lot of time thinking about the Buffalo Soldiers — African-American Army troops who were stationed in the Sierras in the first years of the ...

These men were also known as Buffalo Soldiers, and about 500 served in Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, playing a huge role in building the infrastructure we still see today.

The year is 1903 in Yosemite National Park. Sergeant Elijah Yancy is fierce, tenacious, and brave, and better known as a Buffalo Soldier – a moniker some say was given to him and his brothers on ...

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 interpr… ...