Buffalo Soldiers: Cavalryman’s Paradise

This is the Fourth and Final Episode on the Buffalo Soldiers and it discusses their time as stewards of our National Parks and the 25th Infantry Buffalo Soldiers Bicycle Corps of 1897 in Yellowstone National Park.

Selected Sources:

Buffalo Soldiers on the Colorado Frontier by Nancy K Williams

‘No better troops.’ The 1896 ride of the Buffalo Soldiers through Yellowstone National Park by Michael Poland

Standing Guard by Kate Siber for the National Parks Conservation Association

NPS The Immortal 15, Fort Yellowstone, and Buffalo Soldiers

THE BUFFALO SOLDIERS WHO RODE BIKES by David McCormick

Very Hard Traveling by Michael Zimny for South Dakota Magazine

NationalParks.org