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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...