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

On assignment in Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks for three summers—1899, 1903, and 1904—the Buffalo Soldiers accomplished many other things, too. They chased away wild-game poachers and foiled ...

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 ...