The Autry museum in Los Angeles hosted presentation by two of the last Buffalo Soldiers. Read about it here.
The 9th and 10th Cavalry in particular did yeoman’s service in Apacheria, and the Buffalo Soldiers were an under-sung element in the capture of the San Juan Heights in the Spanish-American War. They deserve to be remembered.
The Discovery, by Don Stivers. San Andres Mountains, N.M., April, 1880.
Jim Evers says
As a child in the mid 1960’s my Father took me to the town of Allenswoth in California which at the time was mostly old falling down shacks grown over by weeds and not the historical park it is now. The town was founded by a black Colonel Allensworth. There dad introduced me to a very old black gentleman as dad called him and told me he had been a buffalo soldier in the southwest around the time of Villa’s raid on Columbus N.M. Too bad we didn’t talk about the buffalo soldiers and Villa regretfully a missed history lesson, the conversation was mostly about fishing and running hounds but as a 10 yro boy I loved fishing and running hounds.
A good movie involving Buffalo Soldiers is Sargent Rutledge a John Ford movie film in Monument Valley. Similer feel as ” She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”.
Erich Hicks says
Keeping history alive by telling that history:
Read the untold fictionalized historical novel, “Rescue at Pine Ridge”, the first generation of Buffalo Soldiers. The website is: http://www.rescueatpineridge.com This is the greatest story of Black Military History…5 stars Amazon international, and Barnes & Noble. Youtube commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD66NUKmZPs
Rescue at Pine Ridge is the untold story of the 9th Cavalry from its Congressional conception in 1866, to the rescue of the famed 7th Cavalry by the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers. The 7th Cavalry was entrapped again, after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn’t for the 9th Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry. This story is about, brutality, compassion, reprisal, bravery, heroism, redemption and gallantry.
Visit our Alpha Wolf Production website at: http://www.alphawolfprods.com and see our other productions, like Stagecoach Mary, the first Black Woman to deliver mail for the US Postal System in Montana, in the 1890’s, spread the word.
Peace.