Captain Charles Young, 9th U.S. Cavalry, acting superintendent of Kings Canyon National Park, 1903. "Black" cavalry regiments, the so called "Buffalo Soldiers", from the Presidio of San Francisco controlled the three National Parks in the Californian Sierra Nevada until the National Park Service was founded in 1916
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